Head of Department, Resolution & Insolvency

Head of Department Resolution & Insolvency (R&I)

About the FCA

At the FCAwerecreating a fair and more resilient financial system.Wereestablishingmore transparent relationships between financial services and customers building trust in financialmarketsand protecting vulnerable consumers.

Werecurrently on an exciting journey as we drive forward significant organisational people process and technology transformation to become a more forward-thinking proactive regulator. We will use data more effectively to drive better regulatory decisions and build greater cohesion across our broad financial services remit.

Significant improvements in digital enablement business intelligence marketdataand information management maturity are all being pursued tomaintainour position as a world leader in financial services regulation.

In March 2025 the FCA launched a new 5-year strategy to deepen trust rebalance risk support growth and improve lives. The FCA will focus on four priorities:

• Be a smarter regulator; predictablepurposefuland proportionate. The FCA will improve its processes and embrace technology to become more efficient and effective.

• Support sustained economic growth by enabling investment innovation and ensuring the continued competitiveness of the UKs world-leading financial services.

• Help consumers navigate their financial livesby working with industry to boost trust product innovation and ensuring the right information and support is available for people to take financial decisions.

• Fight financial crime focusing on those whoseekto use the fact they are regulated to do harm. It will go further to disrupt criminals and support firms to be an effective line of defence.

The Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen to take on the role of Head of the Resolution and Insolvency (R&I) department.

The R&Idepartment sitswithin theSpecialist Directorate and focuses on all aspects of actual or potential firm failure across FCA-regulated firms. R&Iidentifiesand recommends FCA resolution strategies for failing or at-risk firms and supports Supervision in implementation. The work also involves extensive co-ordination and collaboration with other parts of the FCA including other specialist departments legal division cross-cutting policy comms authorisations EMO. The departmentis responsible forleading the FCAs relationship witha number ofkey external stakeholders; HM Treasurys Resilience and Resolution team within Financial Stability the Bank of Englands Resolution Directorate and FSCS Resolution department.

What will the candidate get from the role

• Joining the Senior Leadership Team at the FCA during an exciting and challenging time ofgreat changein financial services and its regulation

• Leading a department of talented and committed people through significant projects whilst also delivering on business-as-usual objectives

• Exposure to strategic issues and key players in the world of finance both nationally and internationally

Key responsibilities:

• Leading and inspiring an ambitiousenergeticand dedicated department which manages and responds to firm failures ensuring FCA objectives are met and that harm from disorderly failure is minimised.

• Providing thought leadership in resolution or supervisory strategies in respect of potential or actual failures including high profile complex cases and leading the FCAs response to major firm failures.

• Leading the department ina number ofproactive cross-FCA critical workstreams including R&I focussed policy-related crisis preparedness (both within FCA and external).

• Continuing to empower and lead the department to implement the delivery plan including ongoing embedding ofnumerousoperational improvements.

• Leading on performancecapabilityand culture within the department.

• Delivering through others by relying on building strong relationships coachinginfluencingand negotiating skills with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

• Leadingnumerouskey stakeholder relationships and close liaison to ensure cross authority work on crisis preparedness and other relevant resolution work continues.

Skills/Experience Required

Wereproud to be aDisability Confident Employer and therefore people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet theminimumcriteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment cases of high applicationvolumeswe may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the roles key requirements. (To learn more about the Disability Confident SchemeClick Here)

Minimum

• Significant experienceof managing and influencing key stakeholders including senior decision makers internally and externally.

• In-depth experience in insolvency restructuring and resolution or evidencedemonstratinga keen desire to deepen existing experience.

• Significant experiencein leading teams through faced paceddifficultand complex situations and good judgement under pressure.

• Strong ability to build and deepen relationships across a wide ranging internal and external landscape.

Essential

• Strong communicationskills both written and oral (ability to convey complex issues in a coherent logical and compelling way including communicating technical or legal issues to non-specialist audiences).

• Exceptionally strong judgement supported by highly developed analytical skills andhigh levelsof diligence; candemonstratemaking challenging risk-based decisions in a complex and changing regulatory landscape.

• Experience in dealing with contentious issues in firms taking decisiveactionand delivering difficult messages.

• An ability to get up to speed onnew issuesquickly and innovative thinking for how to deal with new complex problems most effectively.

• Experience of role modelling strong leadership behaviours in line with organisational values.

• The ability to inclusively lead a group of talented individuals with a wide variety of professionalexpertise experience and backgrounds.

• An open and flexible management style and the ability to communicate effectively with a wide-ranging audience with different skills and perspectives.

The FCAs Values & Diversity

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

• 30 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

Conflicts of interest

All applicants to the FCAare required todemonstratethat they do not have other interests likely to conflict with their responsibilities as an employee of the FCA. You should declare any potential conflict of interest as early as possible in the selection processand alsodiscloseinformation or personal connections that if appointed might be open to misperception.

Anypotential conflicts of interestwill not prevent candidates going forward to interview but may ifappropriate be explored during the interview toestablishhow the candidate would address the issue(s) should they be successful in their application.

Useful information

• The closing date for this role is 23:55 on26thApril.

• Selectionwill be via a two-stage interview and psychometric assessment

• If successful you willbe requiredto obtain andretainSC Clearance.

• We currentlyoperatea hybrid working model working a minimum of 40% in the office each month (50% for senior leaders). This way of working applies in our StratfordLeedsand Edinburgh offices.From September 2026 FCA employees willbe requiredto spend a minimum of 50% of their working time in the office. Our Executive Director and Directors will be expected to be in a minimum of 60% per month.

• The salary range for the role is between 135000 and 170000 for London and 121500 and 153000 nationally.

• To apply pleasesubmityour CV and cover letter.

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