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About the Role

The FCA regulates financial services firms in the UK to ensure fair, thriving, and effective financial markets. This role is within the Market Intervention department, supervising and driving regulatory standards in payments and crypto asset firms. The payments services sector is increasingly significant, offering an exciting opportunity for personal development in an innovative, fast-expanding, and technology-based sector.

Responsibilities

Assess how regulated firms generate revenue, evaluate associated risks to customers and markets, and determine risk management strategies to prevent customer harm.
Evaluate regulated firms' adherence to relevant rules and requirements.
Collaborate with senior industry figures to ensure compliance with rules and requirements, taking regulatory action when necessary.
Work closely with colleagues across the FCA, other regulators, and law enforcement agencies domestically and internationally.

Requirements

Demonstrable experience analyzing complex information and making sound, proportionate risk-based judgments and recommendations.
Proven ability to build and manage relationships with stakeholders at all levels, including senior management.
Effective written and verbal communication skills.
Experience managing a varied, high-volume, and demanding workload with strong organizational skills.
Experience with investigations or other problem-solving casework.
Curiosity, drive, and motivation to continuously learn about and investigate issues within supervised firms and the industry.
Willingness to learn, develop, take on new responsibilities, and adopt a flexible and pragmatic approach.
Experience in effective teamwork to deliver outcomes and complete tasks.
Ability to prioritize workload and meet deadlines in a busy, demanding environment.
Ability to present professionally and credibly, with effective oral and presentation skills.

Skills

Analyzing complex information
Making risk-based judgments and recommendations
Stakeholder relationship management
Written communication
Verbal communication
Workload management
Organizational skills
Investigations
Problem-solving
Interpersonal skills
Briefing and letter writing
Teamwork
Prioritization
Meeting deadlines
Oral presentation skills

Location

Edinburgh
Leeds
London

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior Associate - Regulatory

Salary/Compensations

National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £53,800 to £63,000
London from £59,200 to £69,000

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Hybrid model (minimum 40% in office, expectation of 50% for senior leaders; changing to minimum 50% in office, expectation of 60% for Directors and Executive Directors from September)
Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age)
Life assurance at eight times salary
Private healthcare with Bupa
Income protection
24/7 Employee Assistance Program
35 hours of paid volunteering annually
Flexible benefits scheme

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).
Sitting in the Payments and Digital Assets directorate, the Market Intervention department supervises and drives regulatory standards in payments and crypto asset firms.
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.

Equal Opportunity

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.