OHL Business Risk Analyst (1 Year FTC)

We’re looking for a passionate OHL Business Risk Analyst (1 Year FTC) to join our Asset Operations Team!

The OHL Business Operations Risk Analyst is responsible for proactively supporting the effective management of OHL operational business risks by assessing, challenging, and enhancing the control environment. The role delivers advanced analytical insight, guidance, and subject‑matter expertise to strengthen risk maturity and enable the successful delivery of strategic objectives. In addition, the OHL Business Operations Risk Analyst works closely with, and provides direct support to, the Risk Champion to ensure aligned risk oversight, high‑quality reporting, and coordinated engagement across directorates.

This role is peripatetic, and we encourage a hybrid working approach, although we’re happy to discuss any additional flexibility in working patterns or requirements that you feel could help to make this job work for you!

What You'll Do

• Support the OHL Risk Champion and Critical controls group in delivering the enterprise risk agenda, including risk identification, assessment, prioritisation, and treatment planning across all business areas.
• Lead the development and maintenance of the OHL risk landscape, ensuring risks are accurately captured, consistently evaluated, and regularly reviewed.
• Maintain the OHL risk and critical controls register, ensuring quality, completeness, and alignment with strategic priorities.
• Deliver high-quality risk reporting and insights, translating complex risk information into clear, actionable intelligence for Senior Leadership teams.
• Conduct deep-dive reviews of priority and emerging risks, assessing control effectiveness, mitigation adequacy, and areas requiring escalation or intervention.
• Provide expert guidance to control owners, ensuring the design and operation of controls effectively support the management of business risks.
• Partner with the Assurance team to ensure strong inputs into assurance planning, including risk-based prioritisation and control mapping.
• Drive continuous improvement in risk processes, frameworks, and tools to strengthen risk culture and enhance efficiency and consistency across the business.
• Facilitate horizon scanning to identify emerging threats and opportunities, ensuring appropriate assessment, forward planning, and early mitigation.
• Build and maintain a strong stakeholder network, enabling collaborative working, constructive challenge, and the embedding of risk management best practice.
• Support the development and delivery of risk awareness training, capability building, and communications to improve OHL organisational understanding and risk ownership.
• Support in any resilience planning and resilience exercises that look to test responses to risks and manage any following action plans

What You'll Have

• Appropriate HNC level qualification, or equivalent experience.
• Experience working in risk, compliance, assurance, or governance roles with demonstrable understanding of business risk concepts.
• Strong understanding of enterprise risk management, risk governance frameworks, and control design principles.
• Ability to interpret complex information and translate it into clear, concise, and meaningful insights for decision‑makers.
• Adept at managing multiple priorities, navigating ambiguity, and working effectively in fast‑paced or challenging environments.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills with the ability to build trust and establish credibility at all organisational levels.
• Strong analytical capability and attention to detail, with a continuous improvement mindset.
• High personal integrity, resilience, and commitment to doing what’s right for the organisation.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

What You'll Get

Up to £55,000 dependent on experience.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance and competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to several flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, Job Requirement Car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

Further Information

The closing date for this vacancy is Midnight 10 July 26, with interviews due to take place w/c 20 July 26 onwards. We encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date. National Grid’s recruitment periods can and may vary. We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.

About us

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating, and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry. To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business

At National Grid, we work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office. Our goal is to drive, develop and operate our business in a way that results in a more inclusive culture. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, the innovation from diverse teams & perspectives and business need. We are committed to building a workforce so we can represent the communities we serve and have a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.

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