Risk Reporting and Data Analyst

Salary: National ranging from £51,200 to £64,000 and London from £56,400 to £70,000 per annum – salary offered will be based on skills and experience

Do you want to work with risk information and data, building tools that help with risk analysis and reporting?

The team/ department 

The Risk and Compliance Oversight Division (R&CO) performs the second line of defence function in the FCA. R&CO helps the FCA identify, assess, and report risks that threaten the FCA's ability to deliver its statutory objectives. The Division is responsible for:

• Defining and owning the FCA Risk Management Framework

• Providing ongoing guidance and oversight of risk management across the FCA

• Enterprise-wide risk reporting

• Delivery of Regulatory Investigations and Assurance

• Compliance Oversight

• Complaints

We are recruiting for a talented individual to work in our Reporting and Data Analysis team. The team is responsible for providing an organisation wide view of the FCA's key own risks and the effectiveness of risk mitigation. This is with the aim of providing second line input and assurance to Executive Committees on the effectiveness of risk management across the FCA.

Reporting is one of five key themes that form R&CO’s vision and strategy to deliver an effective second line of defence function. This is because effective reporting supports all other R&CO activities.

This is a high-profile role in which you will support R&CO’s data analysis for some of the key reports the second line develops for executive and board committees. You will lead this work for some of the most exciting projects and pieces of work across the FCA’s risk landscape.

We are looking for a driven and high calibre associate with potential to develop and grow.

What you will be doing (the role)

The key responsibilities of the post holder will be to:

• Support the reporting team with analytics to drive evidence-based risk reporting to the executive and the board committees, helping shape the second line view on some of the most important risk themes for the FCA

• Provide data analysis from the FCA’s bespoke risk management system to help highlight the most important own risk themes and the mitigation of these activities

• Transfer data from excel into word and PowerPoint to present to senior stakeholders

• Create compelling data visualisations that add value and insight, exploiting new functionality as it becomes available

• Provide excel and tableau support to Risk Operations activities

• Partner with the data community across the FCA to continue enhancing knowledge and contributing to the FCA’s Data strategy agenda

What you will get from the role?

You will benefit from:

• Working on important data projects, shaping the second line view and input into the executive and the board, and shaping the organisational approach to risk management

• Having a pivotal role and numerous opportunities where you’ll be empowered to shape the approach and outcomes of reporting projects

• Working continuously with colleagues both within R&CO and across the FCA to deliver these projects

• The chance to work at the centre of the FCA and gain a unique overview of all the major priorities

• Experience of a thought-provoking, interesting, and extremely wide-ranging workload

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle. 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 in delivering data projects end to end (including managing project timelines etc)

• Excellent analytics skills - – proven ability to evaluate information, including patterns and trends, in order to inform decisions

Essential

• Strong communication skills, and commitment to perform to high standards

• Proven ability to consider situations and use problem-solving to make informed recommendations and judgements

• Ability to steer projects and be comfortable taking responsibility for actions

• A flexible approach to ways of working and the ability to work in a changing environment including delivering at pace to tight deadlines

• The professional credibility and gravitas to be able to deal with a broad spectrum of stakeholders

• Demonstrable visualisation skills such as tableau desktop and server experience in a business context

• Advanced knowledge of data extraction and transformation

• Team player who displays strong team spirit and is able to work well with others to achieve goals

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 19th September 2024

• This role is graded as Senior Associate - Regulatory

Got a question?    

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

For internal applicants, please contact Louise Nash 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 complete a competency based interview.

Application support

We want to remove any possible barriers and are committed to providing a wide range of reasonable adjustments so that you can keep the focus on your conversations and be at your best.

If you have an accessibility requirement, disability, or condition that means you might require changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter to discuss this further. Our aim is to make your application as easy and comfortable as possible, and your recruiter will be happy to work with you to make any necessary arrangements where possible.

Please note that all applications must be submitted through our online portal, applications sent via email will not be accepted.