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Financial Crime Data Analyst at Financial Conduct Authority

Financial Crime Data Analyst

Financial Conduct Authority · City of Edinburgh, GB

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Financial Crime Data Analyst

Financial Conduct Authority · City of Edinburgh, GB

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About the Role

Help shape innovative data-led approaches that enhance the FCA’s ability to prevent and detect financial crime, protecting consumers and markets across the UK. Turn complex data into clear, actionable insights that support supervisory decisions and drive meaningful regulatory outcomes. Collaborate with colleagues across Data and Supervision to deliver impactful projects that enhance the FCA’s financial crime capabilities. Develop specialist skills in data analytics within a high-profile regulatory environment, building skills and experience that can help protect millions of consumers.

Responsibilities

  • Help shape innovative data-led approaches that enhance the FCA’s ability to prevent and detect financial crime, protecting consumers and markets across the UK
  • Turn complex data into clear, actionable insights that support supervisory decisions and drive meaningful regulatory outcomes
  • Collaborate with colleagues across Data and Supervision to deliver impactful projects that enhance the FCA’s financial crime capabilities
  • Develop specialist skills in data analytics within a high-profile regulatory environment, building skills and experience that can help protect millions of consumers

Requirements

  • Prior experience using Excel, SQL, or another data analytics tool to interrogate and manipulate data
  • Prior experience analysing data to answer defined questions and draw practical conclusions
  • Prior experience presenting analysis clearly in written, visual, or verbal formats
  • Effective communication skills, with the ability to explain data analysis and insights clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Ability to deliver high-quality work to tight deadlines, using initiative and sound judgement
  • Well-developed stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships, provide constructive challenge and confidently engage with senior stakeholders
  • Ability to prioritise competing demands and manage multiple pieces of work with minimal supervision
  • A collaborative and forward-thinking approach, demonstrating curiosity, innovation and a positive attitude to problem-solving
  • Confidence in making informed judgements, taking timely decisions and learning from experience to continuously improve outcomes

Skills

  • Excel
  • SQL
  • Data analytics tool
  • Data analysis
  • Written presentation
  • Visual presentation
  • Verbal presentation
  • Communication skills
  • Stakeholder management
  • Data visualisation dashboards (e.g. Tableau)
  • Analytical programming languages (e.g. Python, R or advanced SQL)
  • Financial services knowledge
  • Regulation knowledge
  • Financial crime knowledge
  • Supervisory data knowledge

Location

  • Edinburgh
  • Leeds
  • London

Work Type

  • Hybrid

Experience Level

  • Associate – Level 8 – Regulatory

Salary/Compensations

  • National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £43,100 to £48,000
  • London £47,300 to £53,000

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
  • 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 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 Financial Crime Market Intervention department, within the Specialist Directorate, provides specialist expertise to help reduce the risk that regulated businesses are used for financial crime.
  • The department includes four Financial Crime Specialist Supervision teams, a Sanctions Supervision Team, a Fraud Supervision Team and a Risk, Data and Strategy Team.
  • Working with colleagues across the FCA and external partners, it focuses on money laundering, financial sanctions, fraud, bribery and corruption.
  • This role sits in the Risk, Data and Strategy Team.

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.