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About the Role

The Secondary Market Oversight department combats market abuse in secondary markets and monitors markets to ensure function and integrity. The Market Abuse Surveillance Supervision (MASS) team supervises firms' and trading venues' market abuse surveillance, ensuring effective systems and controls are in place to detect and report potential market abuse. MASS will also support the FCA's new cryptoasset regime, assessing applications for cryptoasset trading platforms.

Responsibilities

Supervise the STOR regime, including conducting visits to firms, trading venues, and other market participants to assess their market abuse surveillance arrangements and STOR policies and procedures.
Collaborate with other FCA teams to assess new trading venues, including cryptoasset trading platforms, ensuring proposed surveillance processes and procedures are appropriate and aligned with relevant requirements.
Liaise with industry participants, including delivering formal presentations and written communications, to highlight market abuse surveillance issues.
Contribute to projects and workstreams related to market abuse surveillance, STOR supervision, and the FCA's developing cryptoasset regime.

Requirements

Practical experience in UK financial markets or market abuse surveillance, gained in a financial services firm, trading venue, financial services consultancy firm, or regulator.
Understanding of the UK Market Abuse Regulation (UK MAR).
Awareness of the UK cryptoasset regime, or the ability to quickly build an understanding of how market abuse risks may arise in cryptoasset markets.
Experience in identifying and analysing key risks of harm from a range of information.
Effective communication skills, with the ability to explain complex events clearly and succinctly.
Sound judgement and the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders to assess risks, form evidence-based views, and deliver clear outcomes.
Curiosity with an enthusiasm for learning and sharing knowledge.
Self-starter with a proactive approach to building knowledge, developing skills, and delivering work to a high standard.
Submit a cover letter explaining suitability for the role (maximum 300 words).

Skills

UK financial markets
Market abuse surveillance
UK MAR
UK cryptoasset regime
Risk identification and analysis
Communication
Judgement
Collaboration
Curiosity
Proactiveness

Location

National (Edinburgh & Leeds)
London

Work Type

12 month FTC/Secondment
Full-time

Experience Level

Senior Associate – Regulatory

Salary/Compensations

National (Edinburgh & Leeds) ranging from £53,000 to £69,000
London ranging from £59,200 to £76,000

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
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.
The Secondary Market Oversight department discharges the FCA’s responsibility to combat market abuse in secondary markets and monitors markets in the service of the FCA’s broader objective to support market function and protect market integrity.
The Market Abuse Surveillance Supervision (MASS) team plays a central role in the department’s work.
MASS supervises firms’ and trading venues’ market abuse surveillance, ensuring that market participants have effective systems and controls in place to detect and report potential market abuse to the FCA through suspicious transaction and order reports (STORs).
In addition to this existing work, MASS is also preparing to take on an additional role in supporting the FCA's new cryptoasset regime, which comes into force in October 2027.
This will include supporting the assessment of applications for authorisation of cryptoasset trading platforms, drawing on the team's expertise in surveillance systems, controls and market abuse risk.

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.