Senior Market Insight Associate
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Senior Market Insight Associate
Department Consumer Investments Market Analysis and Policy
Team Market Insights
Salary National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from 52400 to 65500 and London 57700 to 72000 per annum (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.
The Consumer Investments Market Analysis and Policy (MAP) Department is responsible for strategic policymaking and providing market insights for the consumer investments sector. This covers over 5000 firms and 50000 individuals providing a range of crucial investment services to consumers.
The Market Insights Team leads on the crosscutting vision for consumer investments by identifying assessing monitoring and prioritising marketwide emerging harms and future trends to enable the Directorate to take assertive action to support a wellfunctioning consumer investments sector that delivers the FCA Strategy. The core functions of the team include:
Leading on market analysis across consumer investments to provide the crosscutting view of the sector to support Supervision and Policy to take regulatory action including producing a sixmonthly Financial Markets Report for consumer investments
Leading horizon scanning to uncover emerging trends and harms across the sector covering topics including AI & technology innovative business models and the economic & political environment
Carrying out harm assessments; deeper research into specific issues where our horizon scanning identifies an emerging trend that could lead to consumer harm. Recent harm assessments include high risk investing and developments in AI
Facilitating the prioritisation of proactive crosscutting workstreams across the Consumer Investments Directorate
Internal and external communication and engagement to gather insights provide technical crosscutting support and proactively communicate our priorities
What will you be doing
Horizon scanning across the sector; working proactively with key internal and external stakeholders to maintain effective relationships assessing quantitative and qualitative intelligence and escalating emerging and evolving harms to relevant internal stakeholders
Delivery of harm assessments and market research. This involves: analysis of consumer harm and drivers of harm evaluating intelligence and applying judgement to recommend suitable mitigation activities and presenting reports & recommendations to divisional management to enable effective decisionmaking and prioritisation
Supporting the directorate through wider technical support including coordinating and drafting briefings and speeches for senior management drafting external publications training and sharing insights from horizon scanning research and harm assessments
What will you get from the role
Your work will be varied and you will have the opportunity to be curious and proactive in carrying out research and leading projects exploring emerging trends and harms be innovative in the approach we take to tackling them and influence strategic regulatory developments in the consumer investments sector.
You will have ownership of research and project work supporting future career development
You will develop a unique and deep understanding of the consumer investments market
You will broaden your contacts and raise your profile internally and externally
Which skills are required
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
Proven experience working in an analytical or research role being able to quickly draw out key implications from a broad range of information and applying judgement to assess risks to consumers and markets
Proven experience building and maintaining relationships with both internal and external stakeholders at all levels
Experience presenting key issues and recommendations to stakeholders
Essential
Comfortable working proactively with the ability to lead research prioritise own workload and drive work forward
Comfortable with ambiguity defining a problem statement and driving forward pragmatic actionbased solutions
An inquisitive thinker able to assess challenge and validate information making sound and timely decisions with a clear rationale
A great team player who works effectively with others to achieve positive outcomes and Ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner verbally visually and in writing
Strong organisational skills with the proven ability to manage project work work at pace and manage priorities
Ability to influence and negotiate especially when gathering intelligence and understand how to deliver challenging messages
A strategic thinker with the ability to think about the bigger picture to make connections and develop innovative solutions and recommendations which convey the so what
Understanding of Microsoft Office e.g. Excel Word and PowerPoint
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 this 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
This role is graded as Senior Associate Regulatory
Advert Closing Date:Sunday 11th May
CV Review/Shortlist: Tuesday 13th May
Case Study: Friday 15th May
First Round Interview: Week commencing 19th May
Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role therefore please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.
Got a question
If you are interested in learning more about the role please contact Cameron Nunn at
Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via email will not be accepted.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
