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AI Analyst at Financial Conduct Authority

AI Analyst

Financial Conduct Authority · EDH, GB

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AI Analyst

Financial Conduct Authority · EDH, GB

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About the Role

The Data, Technology and Innovation (DTI) division enables the FCA to be a digital-first, data-led smart regulator. The AI Product Development department scopes and shapes AI solutions across the FCA and manages the organization-wide pipeline of AI initiatives, ensuring work is prioritized, well-defined, and aligned to strategic outcomes. This role will identify and shape high-value opportunities for applying AI across the organization to enable smarter and more effective regulatory outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and shape high value opportunities for applying AI across the organisation, enabling smarter and more effective regulatory outcomes to maximise impact
  • Facilitate structured discovery workshops with stakeholders to surface pain points, map processes and pinpoint where AI can deliver meaningful improvements that increase efficiency
  • Build credibility and influence at all levels of the organisation, including senior leaders and decision-makers, adapting communication style and messages to suit different audiences and securing buy-in for AI-driven change and innovation initiatives
  • Translate business challenges into clear functional and non-functional requirements, working collaboratively with technical teams to design AI enabled solutions that meet real needs
  • Manage and prioritise a pipeline of AI initiatives, partnering with data scientists and leadership to focus effort on the highest impact projects for maximum value
  • Contribute to the organisation’s wider AI adoption strategy through insight, stakeholder engagement, and evidence-based recommendations to guide direction
  • Advocate best practice in business analysis, promoting consistency, quality and knowledge sharing across the department to develop capability
  • Gain experience delivering experimental and innovative projects that address real world challenges such as financial crime and consumer protection to create tangible outcomes
  • Build a distinctive skill set at the intersection of AI, data, technology and regulation within a collaborative, learning focused environment to support career growth

Requirements

  • Experience in a senior business analyst role or a comparable position such as Consultant, Solution/Service Designer or Product Owner
  • Experience delivering projects across the full lifecycle, using both waterfall and agile methodologies
  • Working knowledge of artificial intelligence, including areas such as large language models (LLMs), agentic AI, and prompt engineering.
  • Solid understanding of core Business Analysis techniques, including user journey mapping, process mapping, requirements gathering and the ability to design and facilitate collaborative workshops
  • Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence and credibility to engage, challenge and gain buy-in from senior leaders and subject matter experts across the organisation
  • Ability to work through complex problems, identifying underlying issues and opportunities for improvement
  • Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to adapt style, language and level of detail to different audiences, from technical specialists to senior executives, ensuring complex concepts are understood and acted upon
  • Experience navigating complex stakeholder environments, balancing competing priorities and influencing decisions with minimal supervision

Skills

  • Artificial intelligence
  • Large language models (LLMs)
  • Agentic AI
  • Prompt engineering
  • Business Analysis techniques
  • User journey mapping
  • Process mapping
  • Requirements gathering
  • Workshop facilitation
  • Stakeholder management
  • Influencing skills
  • Problem-solving
  • Communication skills
  • Adaptable communication style

Location

  • Edinburgh
  • Leeds
  • London

Work Type

  • Hybrid

Experience Level

  • Senior Associate – Regulatory
  • Senior business analyst
  • Consultant
  • Solution/Service Designer
  • Product Owner

Salary/Compensations

  • National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £53,800 to £72,000
  • London from £59,200 to £80,000 per annum

Benefits

  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  • Colleagues spend a minimum of 50% of their working time in the office each month (60% for 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.
  • 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

  • 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.