Digital Assets Policy Team Manager

Location

London, Edinburgh, Leeds

Salary:  National up to £83,800 and London up to £92,100 per annum  

Are you interested in making a real difference in the fascinating and fast-moving world of Digital Assets policy and to shape the future regulatory regime for crypto as well as developing an in-depth knowledge of the sector.

The Team

The Crypto Policy team sits in the Payments and Digital Assets Policy Department and plays a central role in leading the FCA's policy work on cryptoassets.

Regulation of the cryptoassets sector is already underway and Her Majesty’s Treasury (HMT) has proposed bringing much more into the remit of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). It is the Crypto Policy team’s role to devise and drive this work forward, liaising with multiple internal stakeholders, HMT, Bank of England, industry, and international regulators to develop a future regulatory framework.

What you will be doing?

You will be working in the heart of the innovative and fast-moving world of crypto, where we are currently designing the regulatory regime for crypto assets, working closely with the Government, leading the Digital Assets Policy Team.

You will be managing a team delivering significant projects, and developing new regulatory regimes, as well as playing a key role coordinating the development of crypto policy across the FCA and inputting heavily into international crypto policy.

In addition, you will:

• Be part of the departmental management team for Market Analysis and Policy – Payments and Digital Assets and contribute to the development and delivery of our work around digital assets

• Lead material workstreams to shape and develop various aspects of digital assets policy, working closely with the existing crypto policy team

• Establish and maintain effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders

• Maintain, support and manage a high performing team through effective recruitment, performance management and development of staff from diverse backgrounds and of various levels

What will you get from the role?

This role is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of policy in the FCA in an evolving area of policy and you will have the opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge of the market dynamics and regulations that will shape the future regulation of the cryptoasset sector.

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: 

• 28 days holiday per year

• Private healthcare with Bupa 

• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of your basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach the age of 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. 

• Prior experience of people leadership, including building and maintaining high performing teams

• Prior experience of either the payments and digital assets sectors, or firm supervision

• The successful candidate will hold or will be required to obtain Security Clearance (SC) level vetting at a minimum

Essential

• Prior experience of analysing complex information from various sources

• An ability to consider complex information and contribute to the development and delivery of policy

• Excellent organisational skills with a capability to manage and support a variety of differing priorities and issues

• High standard of problem solving and strategic thinking with sound judgement

• An independent thinker with an analytical mind-set and a risk-based approach to decision making

• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills with a clear ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels

• Strong written and oral communication skills. Able to prepare and deliver complex, strategic written technical communications and deliver sensitive messages in line with the FCA tone. Confidence and credibility when representing the FCA externally

• Willingness to learn and develop, taking on new responsibilities and adopting a flexible and pragmatic approach to your work

• Good understanding of the Financial Services Industry / Digital Assets sector

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 Manager 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 on Wednesday 11th September (midnight)

• This role is graded as Manager – Regulatory

• CVs will be reviewed by the Recruiting Team from Thursday 12th September onwards

What to expect from our interview process  

The process will involve 3 stages:

• Competency based interview – likely to take place w/c 23rd September

• Psychometric Assessment   

• Final round interview

Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role.

Got a question?  

If you are external and interested learning more about the role, please contact Chhavi Bartaria at [email protected]  

If you are internal and interested learning more about the role, please contact Jennifer Wishart at [email protected]

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.