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About the Role
The FCA regulates UK financial services firms to ensure fair, thriving, and effective markets, protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance. This role within the Financial Resilience department is key to minimizing harm from firm weaknesses by setting standards, providing specialist supervision, and leveraging data capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Conduct and support in-depth financial resilience assessments across a diverse portfolio of wholesale and retail firms, identifying vulnerabilities and helping safeguard consumers, markets, and financial stability.
- Deliver high-quality analysis and recommendations to support timely, evidence-based regulatory decisions.
- Evaluate and apply appropriate regulatory tools to help firms meet financial resilience standards.
- Coach and mentor Associate colleagues, sharing technical expertise and supporting team capability.
- Collaborate closely with front-line supervisors to contribute to joined-up regulatory outcomes.
- Demonstrate sound judgment, effective stakeholder engagement, and personal accountability, acting as a role model for FCA values and behaviours.
- Apply prudential regulatory frameworks across a range of firm types and business models.
- Engage professionally with senior internal and external stakeholders, providing clear advice, shaping outcomes, and building alignment.
Requirements
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience in prudential risk management and regulatory frameworks.
- Prior experience of FCA-regulated firms, including an understanding of their business models and the risks they face.
- Demonstrable experience of assessing, managing, challenging, or making decisions on risk and financial resilience within regulated financial institutions.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate and resolve complex prudential issues, applying sound judgment to deliver balanced and well-reasoned outcomes.
- Demonstrated analytical capability with the ability to interpret complex information and articulate clear, evidence-based views, both verbally and in high-quality written outputs.
- Experience leading projects to completion within defined timelines and quality standards.
- A collaborative professional with a commitment to inclusion, able to build relationships, influence stakeholders, and promote alignment towards shared departmental objectives.
- Experience in coaching and mentoring colleagues on professional and technical subjects.
Skills
- Prudential risk management
- Regulatory frameworks
- Financial resilience assessment
- Regulatory decision-making
- Stakeholder engagement
- Project management
- Coaching and mentoring
- Analytical skills
- Verbal and written communication
Location
- Edinburgh
- Leeds
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Associate, Regulatory
Salary/Compensations
- National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £53,800 to £72,000
- London from £59,200 to £80,000 per annum
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.
- 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 within the Specialist Directorate, the Financial Resilience department (FRD) leads the FCA’s efforts to minimise consumer and market harm from weaknesses in firms’ financial resilience by setting standards through rules and guidance, and by providing specialist supervision and data capabilities.
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.