Salary: National from £41,800 to £45,700 and London from £46,000 to £50,000 depending on skills and experience

Are you interested in work which is challenging, high impact and makes a real difference to people’s lives?

The team/department

This role offers the chance to raise standards in the whole market. Your work will touch almost every UK resident’s daily life. The team plays a critical role in helping ensure the Directorate delivers on its strategic priorities by developing and advising on policy that sets high standards reducing and preventing serious harm from financial crime, with a focus on anti-money laundering controls.

What you will be doing

Working alongside other team members, and key internal stakeholders, the successful candidate will:

• Evaluate and interpret existing and proposed policy developments in the area of Financial Crime, mainly Anti Money-Laundering, Counter Terrorism Finance and Proliferation Financing
• Work with the team and wider stakeholders to understand the impact of legal, regulatory, national and international laws, rules and approaches
• Identify and escalate risks to the team’s delivery, consumers and/or markets
• Deliver the team and department’s strategy, helping with priority outcomes and measures of success
• Develop and maintain key external and internal stakeholder relationships to deliver outcomes in line with our strategic priorities
• Provide high quality policy advice and support to supervisors, firms, consumers and trade and consumer bodies

What you will get from the role

• As a key member of the team, you will contribute to setting priorities and working on complex and high-profile projects that impact the everyday financial lives of UK consumers
• You will get to work on high priority projects to help to ensure the team delivers against the FCA’s strategy and business plan commitments and ultimately delivers against the core objectives  
• You will have the opportunity to learn from experts about anti-money laundering, counter terrorist financing and counter proliferation financing
• You will be able to engage with stakeholders from right across the FCA as well as key national and international stakeholders

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.  

• Regulatory experience relevant to Anti Money Laundering or Counter Terrorist Financing
• Experience of delivering complex work 
• Experience of solving problems and presenting analysis and recommendations to stakeholders
• The successful candidate will hold or will be required to obtain Security Clearance (SC) level vetting

Essential

• Evidence of analysing large amounts of complex information, identifying the key themes, drawing logical conclusions and developing and implementing strategies.  Experience of identifying key risks to consumers and/or markets
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to support the team to distil complex issues into succinct messages; present confidently and credibly to a variety of internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to work on your own, use sound judgement and escalate issues appropriately
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills; able to work effectively as part of a team and build and maintain relationships staff at all levels 
• A curious and inquisitive mindset, and an ambition to deliver in the public interest
• Willingness to look outside your own role and identify opportunities to improve the way the department conducts its work
• Inclusive approach – respects the diversity of cultural, social and academic backgrounds found in the organisation and able to adapt personal style to effectively engage individuals from a wide-range of backgrounds.

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 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 1st September 2024
• This role is graded as Associate level 8 - Regulatory 
• Interviews will take place from 9th September 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 Chhavi Bartaria at [email protected] 

What to expect from our interview process 

If your application is successful you will be invited to complete a case study and one hour 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.

Security Clearance/Vetting

The successful candidate will hold or will be required to obtain Security Clearance (SC) level vetting.