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About the Role

The FCA regulates financial services firms in the UK to ensure fair, thriving, and effective financial markets, protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance services. This role is within the Enforcement & Market Integrity (EMI) division, specifically the Retail and Regulatory Investigations (RRI) Directorate and the Retail 4 Department, which focuses on identifying risks and ensuring firms meet regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

Progressing a portfolio of demanding intervention cases autonomously and to tight deadlines.
Identifying and managing key risks within cases.
Ensuring cases are driven forward effectively without close day-to-day oversight.
Advising on evidential sufficiency, identifying key risks, and making judgments and recommendations.
Drafting clear and accurate intervention documents, including statutory notices, legal advice notes, and Tribunal documents.
Presenting to senior stakeholders with credibility, including internal committees and external legal advisors.
Building and maintaining effective working relationships with colleagues, regulated firms, their representatives, and external bodies.
Escalating key issues and trends arising on cases to management.
Contributing to training and knowledge sharing.
Serving as a point of escalation on technical matters.

Requirements

Qualified solicitor or barrister with a valid practising certificate (or equivalent internationally recognised legal qualification).
Significant post-qualification experience in contentious financial services regulation, regulatory investigations or proceedings, financial markets, serious fraud, complex financial crime investigations, or complex litigation and disputes.
Proven experience managing a diverse and challenging caseload, effectively balancing personal responsibilities with the delegation and oversight of work undertaken by junior colleagues.
Ability to apply public law principles, including reasonableness and proportionality.
Strong judgment in assessing evidence, managing legal and regulatory risk, and recommending proportionate intervention outcomes.
Analytical capability to assess complex evidence, identify evidential gaps, and determine appropriate courses of action.
Experience of delivering multiple competing workstreams within demanding timescales, with effective prioritisation and workload management.
Communication skills to present complex analysis and recommendations clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Judgement to make and defend decisions where appropriate, adapting advice in response to evolving or incomplete evidence.
Relationship management skills to build and maintain productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Experience of managing a varied, dynamic, and time-sensitive caseload while maintaining appropriate progress across a portfolio of matters.

Skills

Contentious financial services regulation
Regulatory investigations or proceedings
Financial markets
Serious fraud
Complex financial crime investigations
Complex litigation and disputes
Public law principles
Assessing evidence
Managing legal and regulatory risk
Analytical capability
Workload management
Verbal communication
Written communication
Decision making
Relationship management

Location

London
Edinburgh
Leeds

Work Type

Permanent
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior Associate – Practising Legal
Significant post-qualification experience

Education Level

Qualified solicitor or barrister with a valid practising certificate (or equivalent internationally recognised legal qualification)

Salary/Compensations

London ranging from £66,900 to £75,000
National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £60,900 to £68,000

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.
Enforcement & Market Integrity (EMI) is responsible for the FCA’s responsibilities for market monitoring, delivery of the functions of the UK Listing Authority (UKLA) and the investigation and prosecution of misconduct using the whole spectrum of criminal, civil and administrative sanctions and remedies against firms and individuals.
Sitting within EMI, the Retail and Regulatory Investigations (RRI) Directorate investigates firms and individuals across consumer markets to tackle misconduct, address financial crime, and ensure fair treatment that supports a safe and trusted financial services industry.
Within RRI, the Retail 4 Department brings together the Interventions, Threshold Conditions and Payment Services Regulator Enforcement teams to identify risks, take timely action, and ensure firms meet the regulatory standards required to operate responsibly within the financial sector.
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.