Protective Threat Intelligence Analyst

LOCATION(S): Bristol

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, in our Bristol Hub.

About this opportunity

Help us identify and respond to threats before they become incidents. Threats rarely arrive neatly packaged with all the information needed to make a decision. As a Protective Threat Intelligence Analyst, you will help identify, assess and respond to threats that could affect our people, operations, customers and reputation. We provide clear, practical intelligence to support decision making, from emerging risks through to live incidents, working closely with internal teams and external partners across government, law enforcement and industry.

This is a highly operational role. You will perform intelligence collection, research and analysis, provide support during live incidents, and engage closely with physical security, executive protection, cyber, fraud and insider threat teams to understand emerging threats and support decision‑making. No two weeks are the same. You could be supporting a live incident, assessing activist activity, researching organised criminal threats or briefing stakeholders on emerging risks.

Success in this role requires research, critical thinking, writing and presentation skills, and the ability to turn sophisticated information into insight.

What you'll be doing:

• Conduct intelligence collection and analysis, assessing source credibility, intent and relevance.
• Identify and assess threats that could impact colleagues, sites, operations or reputation.
• Apply structured thinking and good judgement to incomplete, conflicting or ambiguous information.
• Produce high-quality intelligence assessments, reports, briefings and presentations that help collaborators understand threats and make informed decisions.
• Supervise emerging issues and provide early warning of risks to the business.
• Support physical security, executive protection, cyber, fraud and insider threat teams with timely intelligence and threat assessments.
• Deliver rapid assessments during incidents and more in-depth analysis on emerging threats.
• Translate sophisticated intelligence into clear, practical advice that supports decision‑making.
• Deliver written and verbal briefings to operational teams, senior stakeholders and decision‑makers.
• Build trusted working relationships across the Group and with external partners.

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.

What we're looking for:

We recognise that strong analysts come from many different backgrounds. If you have experience researching complex issues, assessing risk, investigating incidents, evaluating evidence, identifying patterns or trends, and communicating findings to support decision-making, we'd encourage you to apply, even if your experience does not align perfectly with every part of the role.

• Experience in protective intelligence, investigations, law enforcement or government intelligence roles.
• Exposure to executive risk, physical security or crisis management.
• Awareness of cyber threat concepts and how cyber risks translate to real‑world impact.
• Familiarity with structured analytical techniques.
• Calm, practical and credible in time‑critical situations.
• Curious and proactive, doesn't wait for flawless information.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to make sound, defensible judgements.
• Keeps outputs simple, clear and passionate about what matters.
• Builds trust quickly and works well with a wide range of stakeholders.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you. Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies