Senior Stress Testing Analyst

Job Application for Senior Stress Testing Analyst at Monzo Back to jobs Senior Stress Testing Analyst Cardiff, London or Remote (UK) Apply 🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts , accounts for 16-17 year olds , a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save , invest and combine their pensions with us. With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers! We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️ 📍London, Cardiff or Remote | 💰 from £63,800 + incentive awards tied to your performance + Benefits ⭐ About our Financial Risk Team: Our Stress Testing team is growing, and we’re looking for a Senior Stress Testing Analyst to help design, lead and deliver Monzo’s stress testing framework. You’ll work across the full lifecycle of stress testing – from methodology design and scenario development through to running models, interpreting outputs and presenting results to senior stakeholders across Finance, Risk and the wider business. This role carries significant visibility and will require you to confidently own and explain complex analysis to exec-level audiences. Alongside delivery, you will help build and improve our processes, governance and analytical toolkit. This is a brilliant opportunity for someone who combines strong analytical ability with influence, clarity of communication and the maturity to shape conversations with senior leaders. 🔑 What you’ll be working on: As a Senior Analyst for Stress Testing, you'll initially support the development and maintenance of the full lifecycle of our stress testing framework. This framework will be used to deliver prudential stress testing to support the production of the ICAAP, Recovery Plan and understanding the resilience of our balance sheet and risk management strategies. Your core responsibilities will include: Supporting delivery of all key stress testing activities , including ICAAP, Recovery Planning, Reverse Stress Tests and ad-hoc exercises. Running models, undertaking detailed analysis and interpreting results , ensuring outputs are robust, accurate and insightful. Presenting stress testing results and analysis to senior stakeholders , including Finance leadership, the broader Risk leadership group, governance committees and working groups. Acting as a key point of contact for cross-functional teams , ensuring stakeholders understand methodologies, assumptions, outputs and implications for the business. Helping design and enhance stress testing methodologies and frameworks , including data processes, scenario translation and model parameterisation. Designing and improving stress testing processes , ensuring they are scalable, controlled and repeatable. Building strong relationships across FP&A, Treasury, Borrowing, Credit Risk, Data, Product and other teams , facilitating smooth data flows and clear expectations. Producing high-quality written materials that explain complex analysis clearly for diverse and senior audiences — including memos, committee papers and technical documentation. Identifying opportunities for process improvement, automation and better controls , supporting the wider Financial Risk team’s development. Supporting the development and embedding of tools, models and templates used across stress testing and financial risk. 🤩 We’d love to hear from you if you… Have experience working in financial risk, credit risk, prudential regulation, finance, analytics or another analytically focused financial services role. Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and enjoy working with models, scenarios, and financial data. Are confident presenting technical or complex analysis to senior stakeholders, and influencing outcomes with clarity and structure. Understand financial statements, capital metrics and risk drivers within a bank, or are keen to deepen your expertise in these areas. Are experienced in navigating cross-functional environments and building trusted relationships across levels and disciplines. Can translate complex information into simple, compelling messages for both technical and non-technical audiences. Are comfortable working independently, managing shifting priorities, and taking ownership for the quality of your work. Have a data-driven mindset and enjoy finding smarter, more scalable ways to deliver analysis (SQL or coding experience is a bonus). Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At Monzo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply— even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet. Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you! 🙌 What’s in it for you 💰from £63,800 + incentive awards tied to your performance 📍This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London) ⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team. 📚 £1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences. 🏡 We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup. ➕ Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits . 🌈 The application journey has 4 key steps Phone call with recruiter (30 mins) Initial video call with Hiring Manager (30 mins) Technical assessment + interview (60 mins) Behavioural Round (45 mins) This process should take around 2-3 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible! We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. You can read them here. We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out. #LI-NZ1 #LI-REMOTE Equal opportunities for everyone Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. 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