Policy Manager, Financial Resilience

Financial Conduct Authority

. Lead and inspire an effective team to meet key objectives, including developing and empowering a team of professionals through performance management, coaching, and mentoring to build capability, enhance engagement, and develop future leaders across the wider department .

Posted 5/16/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £74,900 - £120,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and inspire an effective team to meet key objectives, including developing and empowering a team of professionals through performance management, coaching, and mentoring to build capability, enhance engagement, and develop future leaders across the wider department
Shape and guide prudential policy thinking, providing thought leadership that informs strategic decisions and improves the organisation’s regulatory and risk framework
Play a pivotal role in running the department, contributing to strategic direction as part of the leadership team and ensuring delivery of priorities that support long-term value
Champion a well-defined, values-driven culture, role modelling the right behaviours to embed accountability, collaboration, and effective performance across the team

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant depth of experience with prudential risk and regulatory frameworks
Demonstrable experience of management, including leading, coaching and developing teams
Prior experience of regulatory policymaking
Ability to lead a team including delegating effectively and motivating team members to meet high standards through empowerment and trust
Effective, persuasive communicator, able to communicate views confidently and with authority to senior stakeholders inside and outside of the FCA
Experience of contributing to the strategy of both a team and the wider department/ division
Project management skills with experience of assessing resourcing issues and able to perform quality control on projects to ensure high standards of delivery
The ability to make timely judgments supported by structured thinking that cuts through complexity and focuses on the bigger picture

Benefits

Comp & perks

28 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
Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation of 50% for senior leaders). Changing from September to a minimum of 50% in the office each month (expectation of 60% for Directors and Executive Directors)
A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle

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Hard Skills & Tools

prudential riskregulatory frameworksregulatory policymakingproject managementquality control

Soft Skills

leadershipcoachingmentoringcommunicationteam motivationstrategic thinkingdelegationperformance managementcollaborationaccountability