Whistleblowing Data, MI, and Systems Analyst

Salary: London from £56,400 to £65,000 per annum – Salary offered will be based on skills and experience

Are you looking to join a team that provides strategic and highly specialised central support to Enforcement & Market Oversight and the wider FCA?

The team/department

Enforcement & Market Oversight (EMO) is responsible for the FCA’s primary market functions including monitoring markets, investigation and prosecution of misconduct, pursuing and remedying misconduct using the whole spectrum of criminal, civil and administrative sanctions and remedies against firms and individuals.

Intelligence activity is an important and a central function to many areas of the FCA and is embedded in many of our processes; with accuracy, timeliness, and relevance at the heart of what we deliver. We provide intelligence for both regulatory and criminal activities, and cooperate with many external partners, both in the UK and overseas. It is important we provide the highest quality intelligence products and that they are shared appropriately (in accordance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and our gateways) and with consideration of the wider value therein. We are therefore not solely focused on EMO work and operate more broadly across the financial and economic crime landscape internally and externally, working to national law enforcement standards in the management of our intelligence information.

An extremely exciting opportunity has arisen within the FCA’s Enforcement, Triage, Intelligence and Co-ordination Department (ETIC) for a passionate and experienced Senior Associate to become part of a high performing team delivering the FCA’s external whistleblowing service on an 8-month secondment. Whistleblowing is a vital and unique source of intelligence for the FCA. It is a high-profile topic, requiring the highest standards of case management. The successful candidate would have the unique opportunity to help deliver this service at a time of significant ongoing development, helping to build a successful and sustainable capability that is expected to play a critical role in the FCA’s mission to identify financial misconduct and prevent and reduce public harm.

What you will be doing (the role) 

The successful candidate will lead the Whistleblowing Team’s work to:

• Develop whistleblowing MI and data in line with the FCA’s objective to be a data-led regulator

• Interrogate whistleblowing data to conduct thematic analysis, identify emerging trends, and collaborate with other intelligence colleagues

• Provide data to meet internal and external requests, e.g., for internal governance purposes, requests from the public under the Freedom of Information Act, press enquiries, creation of data for public-facing material

• Ensure the quality of the team’s data inputs

• Enhance our systems and processes to improve tracking of whistleblowing cases throughout the FCA and following dissemination to other bodies

• Identify and mitigate and/or put forward mitigation(s) for data quality risks

What you will get from the role

• The successful candidate will have the opportunity to help deliver this service at a time of ongoing development, helping to build a successful and sustainable capability that is expected to play a critical role in the FCA’s mission to identify financial misconduct, as well as non-financial misconduct, and prevent and reduce public harm

• Collaboration with multiple areas of the organisation, industry leaders, and external partners to develop, implement, and maintain best practice across the whistleblowing landscape

• Assisting in the development and implementation of the FCA’s wider external whistleblowing strategy

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 our London office.  

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 of handling sensitive intelligence/data

• Significant experience of and expertise in producing and presenting data

• Demonstrable experience in using excel, Tableau, Power BI and salesforce

Essential

• Strong understanding of end-to-end business processes and ability to use this to identify scope for improvement

• Strong attention to detail

• Excellent stakeholder and relationship management skills for a variety of internal and external stakeholders

• Curious, proactive mindset, focused on business improvement

• Knowledge /experience of linking different systems for data exchange / manipulation

• Track record of working as a business Subject Matter Expert (SME) on IT and business change projects

About the FCA   

The FCA regulates the conduct of nearly 45,000 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.    

Useful information  

Applications for this role close at 23:59 on 17th October 2024

This role is graded as Senior Associate - Regulatory

The role is based in London

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

The interview process will consist of two stages where your technical and competency-based skills will be assessed.

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.

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