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About the Role

The Integrated Planning Team plays an important role in helping the FCA make well-informed, joined-up decisions about its priorities, people and resources. This role offers the opportunity to help improve how the FCA plans, prioritises and delivers its work by bringing structure to complex activity, turning information into clear governance and guidance materials, and helping colleagues understand what is needed to support effective planning decisions.

Responsibilities

Support the end-to-end Integrated Planning cycle by coordinating key milestones, submission windows, communications, forums and planning touchpoints, including agendas, papers, actions and follow-through.
Maintain the master planning timetable, dependency view, submission trackers and action logs, identifying and escalating risks, blockers, slippage and follow-up activity.
Support the development, release and maintenance of planning standards, guidance, templates and definitions to ensure consistency and alignment with planning requirements.
Coordinate the receipt, collation and quality assurance of planning inputs, performing checks and highlighting gaps or issues to planning leads.
Maintain controlled planning repositories and collaboration spaces in SharePoint and Teams, ensuring artefacts are well organised, traceable and auditable.
Support the production of planning packs and governance materials, including preparing drafts, coordinating inputs, and ensuring accuracy.
Work with divisional and functional planning leads to clarify requirements, manage expectations, and ensure decisions are reflected in planning artefacts.
Capture learning from the planning cycle and propose improvements to guidance, templates, tracking, communications, tooling, and ways of working.

Requirements

Experience supporting or coordinating planning, governance, programme, portfolio or operational cycles within a complex organisation.
Well-developed organizational skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities, stakeholder inputs, records, trackers and reporting outputs with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
Proficient in Microsoft 365 applications, including Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
Ability to coordinate end-to-end planning or governance activity, including milestones, submissions, forums, communications, actions and follow-up activity, while managing competing priorities, risks, blockers and deadlines.
Experience applying standards, guidance and quality assurance processes to ensure planning inputs and outputs are complete, accurate, consistent and decision-ready.
Ability to draft and coordinate governance materials, guidance documents and stakeholder communications, translating planning requirements into clear, practical information.
Sound judgement and discretion when handling sensitive information, maintaining auditable records and supporting effective governance practices.
Proactive approach to continuous improvement, identifying recurring issues and recommending practical improvements to processes, guidance, templates and ways of working.

Location

Edinburgh
Leeds
London

Work Type

12 months FTC
secondment
acting up opportunity
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior Associate, Corporate

Salary/Compensations

National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £43,300 to £54,100
London from £46,400 to £57,900

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.

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.
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.