Commercial Risk Analyst

Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive, collaborative and innovative company? Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team? Join our Commercial Risk Team.

About the Team

The Commercial Risk team sits alongside our Credit Assessment team in our Finance, Legal and Operations directorate. Following the introduction of the new Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act, and Softcat's continued expansion to serve a broader range of customers, including large, complex and overseas, the team is growing to ensure that Softcat is meeting its regulatory requirements, and identifying and managing commercial risks.

Your Role

As a Commercial Risk Analyst, you will play a key role in safeguarding the business by taking ownership of our sanctions compliance process – reviewing alerts, spotting trends, determining risk and making recommendations to management. Beyond that, you will support fraud prevention by carrying out checks on a range of areas, including sales and expenses, helping us maintain strong controls and comply with new legislation.

This position offers a unique opportunity to combine analytical skills with risk management expertise in a dynamic, fast‑paced environment in a period of business expansion.

What you will be doing

• Sanctions

• Sanctions screening: Completing ongoing screening of customers and trading partners and reviewing potential hits for sanctions violations or politically exposed persons.
• Reporting screening outcomes: Escalating any confirmed sanctions screening hits to management and reporting on the potential risks to the business to support senior decision making.
• Handling escalations: Working with the credit assessment team to review escalations from the checks completed during onboarding.
• Process design and maintenance: Supporting in the design and ongoing maintenance of robust internal controls with relation to sanctions screening.
• Industry / regulatory monitoring: Keeping up to date with changes and emerging trends in UK, US and EU sanctions regimes and other relevant legislation and regulations impacting sanctions.

• Counter-fraud checks: Support with regular counter‑fraud checks across the business and reporting the outcomes to management.
• Monitoring potential fraud alerts: Supporting the team in monitoring the shared fraud inbox, and other monitoring platforms, completing domain and company legitimacy checks where required.
• Risk assessment: Supporting with the ongoing maintenance of the Fraud Risk Assessment to ensure that this remains up to date and compliant with ECCTA requirements.
• Investigations: Support the independent counter‑fraud investigation process where required, including reviewing evidence and writing up findings.

What we need from you

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and regulations.
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Ability to communicate and work effectively with stakeholders at all levels across the business.
• Proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Familiarity with compliance processes and risk management principles.
• To possess initiative and be able to consistently operate independently.

We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!

Work in a way that works for you

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home
• Working flexible hours – flexing the times you start and finish during the day
• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs

Working with us

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.

Join us

To become part of the success story, please apply now. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence.

You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/.

Here at Softcat, we don’t prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.