About this role
Investment Access Operations Analyst
Location(s) London, England, GB
Work model Hybrid
Date posted October 20, 2026
Job requisition 183337
This role offers a chance to make a meaningful impact on investment system access risk management while growing your expertise in financial markets and risk practices. The Senior Analyst serves as a primary point of contact for investment access onboarding, access support, and vendor coordination, helping ensure that crew have timely access to the systems and platforms required to support investment activities. You'll partner with stakeholders to assess risk, strengthen controls, and build clear, actionable reporting—helping ensure consistent, well governed access to investments across a global environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead onboarding and access provisioning for Investment Management crew by coordinating internal and third-party access requests while ensuring adherence to policies, procedures, and service-level expectations.
- Serve as a primary investment access support contact by resolving access-related issues and coordinating with vendors, application owners, technology teams, and business stakeholders to maintain appropriate permissions.
- Maintain process documentation, procedures, training materials, and subject-matter knowledge of investment platforms, financial markets, securities, and industry practices to support investment access activities.
- Support investment access risk management by implementing global policies and procedures, conducting advanced risk assessments, analyzing testing results, and strengthening change management, controls assurance, monitoring, and reporting programs.
- Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
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Minimum of three years related work experience, preferably in a regulated financial services environment
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Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
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Low coding skills preferred (ex: Appian, Tableau)
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Our approach
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Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
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Our commitment to you
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Vanguard takes the same long-term view of your success—at work and in life—with Benefits and Rewards packages that reflect what you care about, throughout all the phases and stages of your life.
Our Total Rewards programs provide you and your loved ones with wellness support for key areas in your life:
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Financial wellness
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Physical wellness
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Personal wellness
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Our commitment to equal employment opportunity
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Vanguard is an equal opportunity employer. Vanguard is committed to providing all crew members a working environment that is free from discrimination, prejudice and bias. Through this Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy, Vanguard reaffirms its commitment to equal employment opportunity for all applicants and crew members without regard to race, color, national origin or ancestry, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, veteran or military status. In addition, Vanguard prohibits discrimination based on genetic information, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
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Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Vanguard. Please inform careers at Vanguard if you need assistance completing this application or to otherwise participate in the application process.