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About the Role

The Strategic Assessment Intelligence Analyst will conduct strategic analysis of internal and external threats within the financial crime landscape to support informed decision-making for FCA seniors. This role is central to achieving the FCA's objective of preventing Financial Crime by providing insights into threats and emerging issues, offering recommendations to mitigate harm.

Responsibilities

Conduct strategic analysis of internal and external threats, including scanning, across the financial crime landscape to support informed decision-making for FCA seniors.
Contextualize and summarize a wide range of intelligence sources to inform analysis.
Identify emerging threats, risks, and vulnerabilities through comprehensive analysis to guide strategic and tactical prioritization.
Develop and deliver strategic assessments and intelligence reports tailored to internal stakeholder requirements, as well as adapting such assessments for external partner awareness.
Generate and gather all-source intelligence to detect and understand financial crime threats such as money laundering, fraud, AI, digital assets, technological advancements, and sanctions evasion affecting the UK financial services sector.
Create high-quality analytical products tailored to diverse audiences, using appropriate formats and presentation styles to communicate insights effectively.
Collaborate with internal stakeholders and external partners to enhance threat understanding, share methodologies, and review analytical outputs.
Build and maintain regular proactive relationships with the analytical community, including identifying opportunities to collaborate on multi-agency threat assessments that have wider impacts on multiple sectors, the UK, and worldwide.

Requirements

Minimum of SC clearance is required; DV clearance (or a willingness to undertake DV clearance) is advantageous.
Prior experience and demonstrable ability to analyze complex intelligence and data from diverse sources to draw sound, evidence-based conclusions with clear and effective communication of findings both verbally and in writing; experience to include producing strategic intelligence assessments.
Demonstrated experience in effectively managing internal stakeholder and external partner relationships.
Effective written and verbal communication skills, including proficiency in Microsoft packages.
Demonstrable understanding of the digital assets sector and the relevant economic crime threats, including how harm can be mitigated.
Skilled in delivering analytical insights across grades.
Experience of working collaboratively in cross-functional teams to deliver intelligence-led projects to progress customer needs.
Well-versed in the financial services sector and/or UK Economic Crime landscape including current national priorities.
Demonstrable application of National Intelligence Model principles and relevant intelligence and information sharing frameworks.
Solid understanding of UK Government, Law Enforcement, Regulatory, and private sector structures, functions, and roles.
Understanding and application of the PHIA Common Analytical Standards.
SC Clearance is required for this role; you will hold or will be required to obtain Security Check (SC) level vetting.

Skills

SC clearance
DV clearance
Intelligence analysis
Data analysis
Strategic intelligence assessments
Stakeholder management
External partner relationship management
Written communication
Verbal communication
Microsoft packages proficiency
Digital assets sector understanding
Economic crime threat mitigation
Analytical insights delivery
Cross-functional team collaboration
Financial services sector knowledge
UK Economic Crime landscape knowledge
National Intelligence Model principles
Intelligence and information sharing frameworks
UK Government structures
Law Enforcement structures
Regulatory structures
Private sector structures
PHIA Common Analytical Standards

Location

Edinburgh
Leeds
London

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time
Contract

Experience Level

Senior Associate - Regulatory

Salary/Compensations

National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £53,800 to £59,600
London from £59,200 to £65,000

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Hybrid model (minimum 50% in office)
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 UK finance services.
Sitting within the Enforcement & Market Oversight Division, the Enforcement Intelligence and Specialist Services (EISS) Directorate provides strategic knowledge, intelligence capabilities, and operational support across enforcement functions, improving the FCA’s ability to detect harm, deliver effective investigations, and uphold market integrity.
The FCA has recently built a strategic analysis function within the Specialist Intelligence Department (SID) to understand, support and progress the FCA’s operational objectives.
The FCA strategy between 2025-2030 commits to 4 key objectives, one of which is preventing Financial Crime, and this function within the Partner & Insights team is central to achieving this objective.
The strategic assessment team provides a unique insight into the financial crime threats the FCA and our regulated populations are exposed to, offering all-source analysis to better understand new threats and emerging issues and offer robust recommendations to internal stakeholders to better mitigate the threat of harm.

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.