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About the Role

The Authorisations Division ensures firms and individuals seeking authorization understand regulatory compliance testing. The Register and Authorisations Services (R&AS) department builds confidence in decision-making, systems, processes, data, and platforms through integrated, high-quality services, operational rigor, insights, capability development, policy management, and process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Support work across the Capabilities and Controls team in governance, risk, controls, quality assurance, business improvement, and implementation.
• Collaborate with colleagues to understand operational issues, identify themes, and support practical improvements.
• Ensure actions, risks, decisions, and dependencies are clearly owned, tracked, progressed, and followed through.
• Utilize sound judgment to prioritize activities, identify issues needing attention, and escalate appropriately.
• Support governance forums by preparing updates and papers, coordinating inputs, and ensuring follow-up on actions.
• Assist the division's risk and controls approach by helping teams identify, assess, and manage operational risks proportionately.

Requirements

• Experience working with stakeholders across different teams or functions.
• Ability to manage a varied workload, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines.
• Ability to identify key issues, communicate them clearly, and escalate appropriately.
• Proactive and delivery-focused approach with the confidence to take ownership and anticipate issues.
• Ability to produce accurate, well-structured work in a busy environment.
• Ability to build positive relationships and influence constructively.
• Ability to work across different operational functions, connecting teams, processes, risks, and priorities.
• Ability to identify themes, spot gaps, and translate insights into practical actions.
• Flexibility and resilience with a continuous improvement mindset and willingness to support evolving priorities.

Skills

• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Good judgment
• Proactive and delivery-focused approach
• Strong attention to detail
• Confident and engaging communication style
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Flexibility and resilience
• Continuous improvement mindset

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 £62,733
• London from £59,200 to £69,000 per annum

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Hybrid model (minimum 40% in office, increasing to 50% from September)
• Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and 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.
• 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

• 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.