Market Risk Analyst
Job ID: 009614
Location: Leeds, UK, LS1 8EQ
Job type: Permanent - Full Time
Salary: From £31,000 - £40,000 Dependant upon Experience + Bonus & Benefits
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At Yorkshire Building Society, we’re proud to be a mutual organisation that puts people firstour customers, our communities, and our colleagues. We’re growing, trusted, and committed to making a real difference to real lives. Now, we’re looking for a curious, motivated Market Risk Analyst to join our Treasury team and help shape the future of our balance sheet.
Whether you’re a recent graduate ready to launch your career or an analyst looking to deepen your impact, this role offers the chance to work on meaningful projects, learn from experienced professionals, and grow in a supportive environment.
This role will be based in our Leeds Head Office with working from home capability.
What You’ll Do
As a Market Risk Analyst, you’ll play a key role in managing and reporting on our market risk positions. You’ll help us understand how changes in financial markets affect our mortgage, savings, and treasury decisionsand you’ll be part of the team that helps us respond.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Supporting internal and regulatory market risk reporting
- Helping develop hedging strategies for fixed-rate mortgages and savings products
- Monitoring market risk appetite metrics and contributing to MI and regulatory submissions
- Interpreting changes in risk frameworks and regulations, and applying best practice
- Building strong knowledge of our balance sheet and risk profile
- Championing a positive risk culture across the organisation
Who We’re Looking For
We welcome applications from:
- Recent graduates with a passion for finance, risk, or economics (training provided!)
- Current analysts with experience in market risk, treasury, or financial reporting
You’ll thrive in this role if you:
- Are comfortable with analytical tools like Excel and communication platforms like Outlook and Teams
- Have an interest in financial markets and risk management
- Enjoy solving problems and working with data
- Can manage deadlines and communicate clearly with stakeholders
- Pay attention to detail and bring a proactive, improvement-focused mindset
If you’re ready to start or grow your career in market riskand want to do it somewhere that values people over profitwe’d love to hear from you.
About Our Benefits
Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…
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Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)
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On target bonus of 7% (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)
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Access to brilliant health benefits
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Life assurance at 6 times your salary
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25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)
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Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket
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Wellbeing resources and tools
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Retail and Leisure discounts
Learning & Development
Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.
These include...
- Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
- Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
- Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
- Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
- REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
You’ll find people from all walks of life here, with different cultures, beliefs, ages, outlooks and more. And we’re proud of our differences. So we’re dedicated to creating a workplace where everyone feels welcome, supported, and empowered to be their whole self at work.
Our five Colleague Networks play an important role in helping that happen – and have a real impact on our everyday working life here. Each is closely linked to our Inclusion and Diversity committee, and sponsored by a member of our Senior Leadership Team.
And we also have other colleague groups, such as ManKind and Family Foundations, where colleagues can connect, and start conversations that can be taken into the Networks.
Community and Charity
Ever since we started back in 1864, we’ve had a clear purpose – to do some good in our communities through helping people keep their savings safe. And helping everyone have a place to call home. Today, that purpose is still a huge part of who we are. And every one of our colleagues helps that happen.
We’re committed to volunteering our time, resources, skills and knowledge – more than 50% of colleagues contribute to thousands of volunteer hours every year. And our Charitable Foundation has now donated over £9 million to charities and good causes across the country.
Hear from some of our people about what working at Yorkshire Building Society is like, and what it means for them…
Our ways of working
We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. And help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.
Whether you’re in an office-based team or your team is spread across the country, you’ll have lots of chances to get together with your colleagues for those Moments that Matter – which are all about building wonderful relationships and strong bonds with your colleagues.
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