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About the Role
This role supports the organisation’s lead specialist on fraud policy, helping to shape and deliver high-profile, technically complex fraud policy workstreams, provide expert advice, and influence external partners to drive joined-up approaches to preventing fraud and combating financial crime.
Responsibilities
- Lead and deliver fraud policy workstreams, undertaking research, analysing regulatory developments, and producing evidence-based policy recommendations.
- Provide specialist fraud policy expertise by delivering technical advice, policy analysis, briefings, and guidance to colleagues.
- Support the development of fraud policy, assessing emerging fraud risks, regulatory changes, and market trends.
- Coordinate stakeholder engagement activities, working with government bodies, industry representatives, and regulatory partners.
- Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Contribute to team capability and knowledge sharing, supporting colleagues through collaboration, mentoring, and dissemination of best practice.
Requirements
- Prior experience of drafting or shaping policy.
- Prior experience of financial crime and the financial crime landscape.
- Demonstrable stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience of leading projects and supporting others.
- Solid analytical skills, including ability to analyse complex quantitative and qualitative data, draw reasoned and logical inferences, and reach robust and practical conclusions within tight deadlines.
- Interest in policymaking and developing regulation that protects client assets and reduces harm in firm failures.
- Collaborative colleague who works inclusively and shares knowledge.
- Experience of delivering a variety of competing high-profile tasks with challenging targets under tight deadlines, prioritising appropriately and escalating where necessary.
- An ability to identify and manage key stakeholders, build rapport and constructive relationships, and be a credible representative for the FCA.
- Understanding of the financial services market in the UK and how firms operate within it.
- SC Clearance is required for this role (SC Guidance) - you will hold or will be required to obtain Security Check (SC) level vetting.
Skills
- Drafting or shaping policy
- Financial crime and financial crime landscape
- Stakeholder engagement
- Leading projects
- Analytical skills
- Complex quantitative and qualitative data analysis
- Policymaking
- Developing regulation
- Collaboration
- Knowledge sharing
- Delivering competing high-profile tasks
- Prioritization
- Escalation
- Stakeholder management
- Rapport building
- Constructive relationship building
- Credible representation
- UK financial services market understanding
Location
- National (Edinburgh and Leeds)
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Associate, Regulatory
Salary/Compensations
- National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £53,800 to £68,000
- London £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).
- Sitting in Specialist Directorate, this role is supporting the organisation’s lead specialist on fraud policy.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.