Salary National ranging from £51,200 to £67,500 and London ranging from £56,400 to £75,000

Would you like to work on a range of issues of key importance to financial services?

The team/department

The Wholesale Banks Department sits within the Supervision, Policy, and Competition Division of the FCA and has responsibility for the conduct of business supervision of investment banking groups.

What you will be doing

• Understanding firms’ business strategies and activities, how they adapt in response to the external environment and what implications these changes have for wholesale conduct risks
• Working collaboratively within a focussed supervisory team including playing an active role in relevant workstreams
• Contribute to developing and implementing strategies to supervise firms
• Building and developing effective relationships with firms’ senior management, internal stakeholders, and other regulators
• Providing timely briefings to FCA senior management both verbally and in writing
• Collaborating inclusively, contributing to an environment where everyone is listened to and respected and engaging with the FCA Diversity and Inclusion agenda

What you will get from the role

• The role provides exciting opportunities to work on a range of issues of key importance to financial services
• To develop and implement strategies to oversee firms and to help the FCA deliver its goals including market integrity and consumer protection
• You will be given unparalleled opportunities to engage with senior management at wholesale banks, to work with a range of specialists at the FCA and build relationships with other national and international regulators
• This role provides excellent development and learning opportunities to develop a rewarding career at the FCA and to contribute to public service

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.  

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are: 

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Private healthcare with Bupa 
• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35). 
• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary 
• Income protection 

We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations. 

The skills and experience you will have  

Minimum 

We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, who best meet the minimum criteria for a role.  

• Experience working in either a wholesale financial service environment such as firms, legal and consultancy or other regulatory and governmental organisations
• Experience working in an analytical role
• Experience of building and maintaining effective relationships with senior management and other key stakeholders, both internally and externally.

Essential

• A curious and inquisitive mindset, ability to see the big picture and to deliver in the public interest
• Evidence of working with large amounts of complex information, identifying key themes, drawing logical conclusions, and developing and implementing a strategy and plan of action
• Experience of working with complex business models and products and/or wholesale conduct risks or evidence through another role you could quickly do this
• Able to work effectively as part of a team by working inclusively, contributing to an environment where all opinions are listened to and respected
• Ability to prioritise and adapt to meet changing circumstances and work quickly and effectively on key tasks
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work independently, use sound judgement and escalate issues appropriately

About the FCA  

The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found here. 

The FCA's Values & Diversity

Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation. 

The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our Senior Associate role.  

Flexible working

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements.  Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares.  We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking.   
 

Multi-location 

As part of the FCA’s on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, or London offices.  This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from.  

Useful information 

• Applications for this role close at 23.59 on 29th September 2024
• This role is graded as Senior Associate - Regulatory 
• Interviews will commence from 10th October 2024

Got a question?   

If you are interested in learning more about the role please contact: 

For internal applicants, please contact Linda Bradley at [email protected] 

For external applicants please contact Aaron Ward at [email protected]

What to expect from our interview process 

If your application is successful you will be invited to a complete a case study and 1 hour competency based interview.