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About the Role

This role is responsible for shaping and prioritizing the International Division’s strategic engagement and approach with authorities in the United States, Canada, and the wider Americas. You will maintain key relationships, develop and support engagement plans, and advise senior leadership on international partner engagements.

Responsibilities

• Helping shape and prioritise International Division’s strategic engagement and approach with authorities in the United States, Canada and the wider Americas
• Maintaining key relationships with counterparts in the USA and the Americas, government bodies and secondees
• Developing, delivering and supporting creative strategy and engagement plans on priority topics, working closely with colleagues across the FCA to ensure a coordinated and considered approach
• Advising and supporting FCA Executive Directors and the Senior Leadership Team in their engagements with key international partners, including in relation to overseas visits
• Analysing key policy and political developments across jurisdictions, shaping global policy and providing advice on the opportunities and challenges arising for the FCA
• Advise on risks and opportunities for the FCA
• Contribute to coordinated international strategy
• Operate effectively in a changing policy environment

Requirements

• Prior experience of the international financial regulatory agenda gained through practical experience / experience working on regional policy issues
• Prior experience of advising and working with internal and external stakeholders
• Prior analytical experience of evaluating complex information quickly, making sound judgements supported by evidence
• Ability to identify, manage and support stakeholders, building rapport and constructive relationships
• Effective written and oral communication skills, including the ability to explain complex issues succinctly and compellingly, adapted to the audience
• Motivated approach and ability for problem-solving
• Inclusive and collaborative working method, with ability to draw on a range of knowledge across the wider organisation to deliver
• Well-developed self-management and organisational skills, delivering multiple tasks while meeting deadlines
• Clear understanding of the FCA’s functions and objectives within the UK financial regulatory framework

Skills

• International financial regulatory agenda
• Regional policy issues
• Stakeholder advising and working
• Complex information analysis
• Sound judgement supported by evidence
• Stakeholder identification, management, and support
• Rapport and constructive relationship building
• Effective written and oral communication
• Succinct and compelling explanation of complex issues
• Problem-solving
• Inclusive and collaborative working
• Drawing on organisational knowledge
• Self-management
• Organisational skills
• Meeting deadlines
• Understanding of FCA functions and objectives

Location

• Edinburgh
• Leeds
• London

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior Associate, Regulatory

Salary/Compensations

• National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £53,800 to £70,000 per annum
• London ranging from £59,200 to £75,000 per annum

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Non-contributory pension (8–12% 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
• Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation of 50% for senior leaders). Changing from September to a minimum of 50% in the office each month (expectation of 60% for Directors and Executive Directors)
• A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle

About the Company

• We regulate financial services firms in the UK, to keep financial markets fair, thriving and effective. By joining us, you’ll play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance services.
• SPC oversees firms and individuals (supervision), creates and reviews the rules by which they operate (policy) and identifies and remedies ineffective competition in markets (competition). The International Division coordinates our strategy for international engagement, working collaboratively across the FCA to ensure the organization delivers on its international priorities.

Equal Opportunity

• Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that’s 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.
• We’re 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 process. In cases of high application volumes we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.