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About the Role

This role is an exciting opportunity to work on key Client Asset Safeguarding & Resolution policy issues for the FCA. You will identify policy issues and develop solutions to keep customers' assets and money safe, and minimize harm when firms fail. You will also address emerging challenges, ensure the client asset safeguarding and resolution approach is fit for the future, and provide policy input on CASS-related queries and rule modifications/waivers. Additionally, you will gain experience in managing the FCA policy making process, draft and present policy proposals, and build stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities

Identify policy issues and develop solutions to keep customers' assets and money safe.
Minimize harm when firms fail.
Address emerging challenges in client asset safeguarding and resolution.
Provide policy input on CASS-related queries and rule modifications/waivers.
Manage the FCA policy making process.
Draft and present policy proposals, committee papers, guidance, and other policy papers.
Build and manage productive stakeholder relationships.
Work with policymakers, supervisors, and other specialists across the FCA and beyond.

Requirements

Knowledge and experience of working in a regulatory/public policy role related to financial services, or a demonstrated working understanding and/or application of financial services regulation including approaches to safeguarding client assets, and/or resolution knowledge and/or digital assets knowledge.
Experience in applying analytical skills to break down complex problems.
Identify, analyze, and evaluate quantitative and qualitative data.
Draw reasoned and logical conclusions.
Use judgment to develop and assess potential practical solutions.
Effective written and oral communication skills.
Distill complex issues into succinct messages.
Structure and draft reports clearly and to a high standard.
Write presentations and present recommendations confidently to a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
A collaborative approach and ability to think creatively about new and emerging regulatory issues.
Motivation for work that is both strategic and technically challenging.
Ability to understand both the big picture and the detail.
Curiosity to learn.
Experience of stakeholder management, building constructive relationships and getting buy-in effectively.
Good self- and project management skills to plan and drive forward work to meet challenging deadlines.
Flexibility to change priorities when required.
Awareness to escalate when needed.
An understanding of the UK financial services market and how firms operate within it.
An understanding of digital assets and their use cases is a plus.

Skills

Analytical skills
Creativity
Technical skills in client asset safeguarding and/or resolution
Policy input
Policy making process management
Drafting policy proposals
Presenting policy proposals
Stakeholder relationship management
Written communication
Oral communication
Problem-solving
Data analysis
Judgment
Collaboration
Creative thinking
Strategic thinking
Technical understanding
Project management
Self-management
UK financial services market understanding
Digital assets 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 £66,300
London from £59,200 to £72,800

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 50% in the office each month (expectation of 60% for senior leaders, Directors and Executive Directors)
Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age)
Life assurance at eight times your salary
Private healthcare with Bupa
Income protection
24/7 Employee Assistance
35 hours of paid volunteering annually
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.
Sitting within the Specialist Directorate, the Resolution Strategy, Operations & CASS (ReSOC) department leads the FCA’s efforts to enhance client asset protection -thereby boosting consumer protection and market integrity -through risk assessment, data analysis, and supervision of firms’ compliance with the Client Assets Sourcebook.
The department includes the Client Asset Safeguarding and Resolution Policy and Strategy team.
In the team, you will join a group of dedicated policy professionals who are focused on shaping creative, pragmatic and evidence-based policy solutions to help protect consumers, support economic growth, and shape the future of UK financial services.
The team focusses on developing and maintaining the regulatory framework that helps to keep customer assets safe when they are held by financial services firms and to minimise the harm caused by such firms’ failure.
Some examples of the team’s current and recent work include developing a custody regime for crypto assets, introducing a payment safeguarding regime, and producing guidance for insolvency practitioners on how to approach regulated firms.

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.