Senior Associate Regulatory Reform Unit-1
Senior Associate Regulatory Reform Unit-1
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Senior Associate Regulatory Reform Unit
Division Consumers and Competition
Salary: London fromper annum & National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from. Salary offered will be based on skills and experience
About the FCA
The FCA regulates the conduct of 45000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.
Were looking for Senior Associates to join the Regulatory Reform Unit the team responsible for our growth and competitiveness secondary objective.
This is an exciting highprofile and fastpaced opportunity to shape how the FCA embeds growth and competitiveness in all aspects of its work and engage with the intense interest in this area from a wide range of stakeholders.
What will you be doing
Our growth and competitiveness secondary objective is a toppriority fastmoving and crosscutting area that affects nearly every aspect of the FCAs work. You will work on:
- How the FCA embeds growth and competitiveness in all of its work including providing consistency across the approach in rulemaking supervision authorisations and through Strategy25
- The FCAs policy positions on growth and competitiveness and coordinating new growth ideas for the FCA including tracking intelligence received throughout the FCA on proposals for potential reform
- External engagement on SICGO including drafting responses to ministers the governments remit letter the FCAs second SICGO report and metrics and TSC/House of Lords briefings for the CEO and Chair as well as engagement with trade bodies and FCA statutory panels
What will you get from the role
You will have:
- A unique chance to be at the heart of highprofile work a small team of talented and committed people and on a topic with significant and longer term impact for the UK.
- Regular exposure to senior leadership in the FCA and crossFCA working you will work closely with Executive Director offices and with colleagues in Comms Economics MAPs Auths and DTI.
The skills and experience youll have
We are a Disability Confident Employer; therefore disabled people or individuals with longterm conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. (To learn more about the Disability Confident Scheme Click Here
Minimum
- Prior regulatory or public policymaking experience. This could be gained through a policymaking role in a regulator government department or industry trade body or through experience in a related role such as public affairs
- Prior experience drafting and presenting to a wide range of stakeholders
Essential
- Excellent judgement under ambiguity and very tight deadlines. Ability to analyse complex information or issues think creatively where needed cut through complexity to see the bigger picture and reach robust and practical conclusions under time pressure
- Strong influencing skills with significant experience in building relationships and persuading with wellreasoned arguments
- Experience of delivering a variety of competing highprofile tasks with challenging targets under pressure prioritising appropriately and escalating where necessary. Taking ownership for key deliverables ensuring outputs are delivered on time and to a high standard
- Good understanding of how the SICGO should operate. Strong interest in thinking about growth and competitiveness and how regulation can influence it
- Compelling drafting and presenting skills for senior audiences internally and externally. Experience of writing papers and briefings including an ability to distil complex issues into succinct messages
- Demonstrate a real growth mindset be curious and proactive. This role supports teams on the most difficult FCA questions of the day across retail wholesale and crosscutting issues. Build own network and identify effective selfmanagement techniques
- Knowledge of a range of financial services sectors advantageous but not essential
- Knowledge of macroeconomics advantageous but not essential
Our Values & Diversity
We are proud to be an inclusive employer and our ambition is to cultivate a culture 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.
Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.
Did you know 50 of our Executive Committee were the first in their family to attend university.
The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisation. Given this we particularly welcome applications from women minority ethnic disabled and neurodivergent candidates for our Senior Associate role.
Benefits of working at the FCA
- 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
- Hybrid working (work from home up to 60 of your time)
- Private healthcare with Bupa
- A noncontributory 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 also have a competitive flexible benefits scheme which gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package tailored to suit your lifestyle.
We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working parttime staggered hours and job shares. We cant promise to give you exactly what you want but we can explore what might work best for both sides.
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Application Support
We are dedicated to removing barriers and ensuring our application process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible.
If you have an accessibility need disability or condition requiring changes to the recruitment process please contact your recruiter using the details below and they will be happy to discuss this further with you.
Useful Information and Timeline
Applications for this role close at 23:59 on Wednesday 16 April.
This role is graded as Senior Associate Regulatory.
What to expect from our interview process
The process will involve one case study and up to two round of interviews.
- First round of interviews from 23 April
- Final round potentially from w/c 12 May
Please make the recruiter aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.
Got a question
If you are an internal candidate and you are interested in learning more about the role please contact Yusuf Agloria on for any external candidates please contact Tahir Khan on .
Please note that all applications must be submitted through our online portal before the closing date applications sent via email will not be accepted.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
