Integrated Planning Operations 12 months FTC secondment or acting up opportunity

Integrated Planning Operations- 12 months FTC/ secondment or acting up opportunity

Division: Operations
Department: Portfolio Management Unit

• Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from 43300 to 54100 and London from 46400 to 57900 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
• This role is graded as: Senior Associate Corporate
• Your external recruitment contact is Raimonda via
• Your internal recruitment contact is Fizah via
• Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted.

About the FCA and team

We regulate financial services firms in the UK to keep financial markets fair thriving and effective. By joining us youll play a key part in protecting consumers driving economic growth and shaping the future of UK finance services.

The Integrated Planning Team sits within the Portfolio Management Unit and plays an important role in helping the FCA make well-informed joined-up decisions about its priorities people and resources. The team brings together planning data and insight from across the organisation to create a clearer picture of what can be delivered what it will take and where the key trade-offs and opportunities lie. Working closely with colleagues across divisions and corporate functions the Portfolio Management Unit helps shape a more connected forward-looking approach to planning and portfolio oversight - giving this role the opportunity to help improve how the FCA plans prioritises and delivers its work.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys bringing structure to complex activity turning information into clear governance and guidance materials and helping colleagues understand what is needed to support effective planning decisions.

Role responsibilities

• Support the end-to-end Integrated Planning cycle by coordinating key milestones submission windows communications forums and planning touchpoints including agendas papers actions and follow-through
• Maintain the master planning timetable dependency view submission trackers and action logs ensuring risks blockers slippage and follow-up activity are identified recorded and escalated where needed
• Support the development release and maintenance of planning standards guidance templates and definitions helping divisions and functions understand what is required of them and ensuring submissions are consistent comparable and aligned to planning requirements
• Coordinate the receipt collation and quality assurance of planning inputs carrying out readiness completeness consistency and data-quality checks and highlighting gaps issues and remediation needs to planning leads
• Maintain controlled planning repositories and collaboration spaces in SharePoint and Teams ensuring artefacts submissions decisions actions and lessons learned are well organised version controlled traceable and auditable
• Support the production of planning packs and governance materials including preparing first drafts coordinating inputs maintaining pack trackers checking quality and ensuring outputs are accurate consistent and decision-ready
• Work with divisional and functional planning leads to clarify requirements manage expectations support timely submissions and ensure decisions or outcomes from challenge and governance forums are reflected in planning artefacts
• Capture learning from the planning cycle and propose practical improvements to guidance templates tracking communications tooling and ways of working to reduce rework and improve stakeholder experience

Skills required

Minimum:

• Experience supporting or coordinating planning governance programme portfolio or operational cycles within a complex organisation
• Well-developed organizational skills including the ability to manage multiple priorities stakeholder inputs records trackers and reporting outputs with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 applications including Outlook Teams SharePoint Excel Word and PowerPoint

Essential:

• Ability to coordinate end-to-end planning or governance activity including milestones submissions forums communications actions and follow-up activity while managing competing priorities risks blockers and deadlines
• Experience applying standards guidance and quality assurance processes to ensure planning inputs and outputs are complete accurate consistent and decision-ready including data validation readiness reviews and governance reporting
• Ability to draft and coordinate governance materials guidance documents and stakeholder communications translating planning requirements into clear practical information for divisions and functions
• Sound judgement and discretion when handling sensitive information maintaining auditable records and supporting effective governance practices
• Proactive approach to continuous improvement identifying recurring issues and recommending practical improvements to processes guidance templates and ways of working

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Non-contributory pension (812% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary.
• Private healthcare with Bupa income protection and 24/7 Employee Assistance.
• 35 hours of paid volunteering annually.
• Colleagues spend a minimum of 50% of their working time in the office each month (60% for Directors and Executive Directors) across our London Leeds and Edinburgh offices.
• A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle.

For a full list of our benefits and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page.

Our values and culture

Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one thats free from discrimination and bias celebrates difference and supports colleagues to deliver at their best. 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.

If you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support.

We welcome diverse working styles and aim to find flexible solutions that suit both the role and individual needs including options like part-time and job sharing where applicable.

Disability confident: our hiring approach
Were proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and therefore people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment cases of high application volumes we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the roles key requirements.

Useful information and timelines

Timeline:

• Job advert closes: Midnight 31August 2026
• CV Review/Shortlist: 2 September
• Interview: from the 9th September moving forward
• 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.