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# Security Risk Analyst

- **Company:** Hays plc
- **Location:** Leeds, UK
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Cyber Security, Digital Assets
- **Published:** June 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/security-analyst/hays-job107478159

## About the Role

* Strong experience in risk assessment, security assurance or information security
 * Proven ability to facilitate workshops and engage senior stakeholders
 * Knowledge of access risk, insider threat and asset criticality
 * Experience assessing both physical and IT/information assets
 * Strong communication, analysis and reporting skills

Desirable

 * Public sector or regulated environment experience

## Description

We're looking for an experienced Personnel Security Officer to support a major Critical Asset Review and deliver role-based risk assessments across a large, complex organisation.
The RoleThis position has two key focus areas:

 * Critical Asset Review: Engaging business areas and key representatives to identify and assess physical and logical (IT/information) assets, leading workshops and working sessions to determine asset criticality and dependencies.
 * Risk Assessment: Conducting role-based risk assessments across staff, contractors and third parties, focusing on access risks, privileged roles and insider threats.

You'll work closely with stakeholders to drive risk-informed decision-making and strengthen security controls.
Key Responsibilities

 * Lead stakeholder engagement sessions to identify critical assets and dependencies
 * Conduct discussions across business functions on physical and digital assets
 * Deliver structured role-based risk assessments
 * Review access models, controls and governance frameworks
 * Produce clear, evidence-based risk reports and recommendations
 * Support implementation and tracking of risk mitigation actions


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