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About the Role

The FCA regulates financial services firms in the UK to ensure fair, thriving, and effective financial markets. This role plays a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of financial services. The Market Intervention - Trading Venues Department supervises trading venues, develops policy, and intervenes to address emerging risks. The Trading Policy Team specifically shapes and implements policy across wholesale markets and is responsible for the supervision of the bond Consolidated Tape (CT) and the development of the regulatory framework for the equity CT.

Responsibilities

Shape the design and lead the delivery of the FCA’s supervisory strategy for the CT, improving market transparency, integrity, and confidence.
Collaborate with colleagues across Authorisations, Legal, Trading Policy, Market Oversight, and Trading Venue Supervision to deliver coordinated regulatory outcomes.
Lead complex supervisory issues and cases, applying regulatory knowledge to make informed judgments and address emerging risks.
Support, guide, and develop team members while overseeing resources to foster an inclusive and high-performing environment.
Leverage market data, insights, and analytics to enhance supervision and inform decision-making.

Requirements

Prior experience in financial services and financial regulation.
Prior experience representing an organization externally in a leadership role on technically demanding issues.
Thorough understanding of the UK regulatory framework, particularly relating to financial markets, transparency, and market data.
Ability to quickly acquire, source, manipulate, and analyze data to inform decision-making.
Demonstrated ability to evaluate complex issues and make evidence-based judgments, even with incomplete information.
Effective communication skills, with the ability to explain complex issues clearly to various audiences, including senior stakeholders.
Clear commitment to collaborative working, with the ability to challenge and influence others while supporting colleagues.

Skills

Financial services
Financial regulation
External representation
Leadership
Technical expertise
UK regulatory framework
Financial markets
Market transparency
Market data
Data acquisition
Data manipulation
Data analysis
Complex issue evaluation
Evidence-based judgment
Communication
Collaborative working
Challenging and influencing
Team support

Location

Edinburgh
Leeds
London

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Technical Specialist – Regulatory

Salary/Compensations

National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £74,900 to £88,966
London ranging from £82,300 to £97,800

Benefits

28 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
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 financial services in the UK.
SPC oversees firms and individuals (supervision), creates and reviews the rules by which they operate (policy) and identifies and remedies ineffective competition in markets (competition).
The Market Intervention - Trading Venues Department, part of the Infrastructure & Exchanges Directorate, is at the heart of the FCA's work to promote resilient, transparent and fair UK financial markets.
The team supervises trading venues, develops policy for trading venues and investment firms operating both on-venue and OTC and delivers early, evidence-based interventions to address emerging risks while contributing to UK and international policy.
Within the department, the Trading Policy Team shapes and implements policy across wholesale markets, covering investment exchanges, broker-dealers, proprietary trading firms and commodity derivatives trading firms.
Our work spans trading venue requirements, market transparency, algorithmic and high-frequency trading, commodity derivatives and market data.
The team is also responsible for the supervision of the bond Consolidated Tape (CT) and leads the development of the regulatory framework for the equity CT, a significant new market infrastructure that will improve the quality, accessibility and transparency of wholesale market data, support price formation and best execution and enhance market integrity across UK financial markets.

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.