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About the Role

The Market Interventions – Digital Assets (MIDA) department supervises and enforces regulatory standards in cryptoasset firms and other firms with crypto-adjacent business models. This role is crucial for ensuring the FCA is ready for the transition to bring all firms conducting qualifying activity in the UK within the FCA’s regulatory perimeter, requiring them to implement full Financial Services & Markets Act (FSMA) requirements.

Responsibilities

Line managing colleagues, including closely managing performance and talent.
Planning, prioritizing, and allocating supervisory work across the team.
Assessing cases of varying complexity and making sound, consistent, and timely regulatory judgments.
Formulating strategies to deal with complex or novel domestic or international issues.
Coaching colleagues in technical knowledge, case strategies, and firm interactions.
Supporting the build of the supervisory framework, infrastructure, operating model, and processes for effective crypto firm supervision under the future regulatory regime.
Working with firms to ensure they meet new FSMA requirements by the October 25, 2027 implementation date.
Establishing and maintaining effective relationships with internal stakeholders, including financial crime specialists, legal advisors, Authorisations, Intelligence, Enforcement, and Policy teams.

Requirements

Prior people management experience demonstrating the ability to support, coach, and develop individuals with diverse backgrounds.
Demonstrable experience of assessing and analyzing information, including complex data.
Experience exercising robust, consistent judgments that balance competing factors.
Experience synthesizing supervision or investigation strategies.
Experience in supervision or investigations under the MLRs, PSRs/EMRs, and FSMA.
A motivated individual who combines structure with careful judgment to reach decisions.
Experience prioritizing team workload, managing time effectively, and using sound judgment in a high-case volume environment.
Demonstrated sense of accountability, ownership of problems, and implementation of pragmatic action-based solutions.
Familiarity with the Digital Assets sector, including business models, key products, schemes, systems, and the roles of various firms and institutions.
Ability to balance competing priorities and operate effectively when priorities shift frequently.
Ability to represent yourself and the FCA professionally and credibly, with effective oral and presentation skills.
Experience managing challenging firms, supporting them through the regulatory process, and maintaining clear standards to deliver positive regulatory outcomes.
Experience mentoring peers and providing dependable support to others.

Skills

People management
Coaching
Talent development
Risk assessment
Information analysis
Complex data analysis
Regulatory judgment
Supervision strategy
Investigation strategy
MLRs
PSRs/EMRs
FSMA
Prioritization
Time management
Accountability
Problem-solving
Digital Assets sector knowledge
Stakeholder management
Oral communication
Presentation skills
Mentoring

Location

Edinburgh
Leeds
London

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Lead Associate - Regulatory

Salary/Compensations

National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £60,700 to £70,700
London from £66,600 to £77,600

Benefits

25 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 UK financial services.
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).
Sitting in the Payments and Digital Assets directorate, the Market Intervention department supervises and enforces regulatory standards in cryptoasset firms, and other firms with crypto-adjacent business models.
We are operating in a particularly interesting period of cryptoasset regulation which will bring all firms conducting qualifying activity in the UK within the FCA’s regulatory perimeter.
The new rules will require firms to implement full Financial Services & Markets Act (FSMA) requirements to ensure high standards of conduct, prudential management and market integrity.
Significant work is underway to help ensure that FCA is ready for this transition, and can deliver the necessary functions in Authorisations, Supervision and Policy to make it a success.

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.