Financial Conduct Authority

Supervisor

• Developing and maintaining relationships with your sponsor firms/PIPs through regular communications
• Developing an understanding of the relevant firms, their staff and systems and controls
• Analysing and understanding technical issues that have arisen, applying your knowledge of the relevant regulation
• Managing and coordinating desk-based or on-site reviews at sponsors and other corporate finance firms
• Considering applications from firms wishing to become a sponsor, PIP or proxy adviser
• Leading on or supporting policy development work and other FCA projects
• Where appropriate, providing feedback to firms and taking appropriate action

Primary Markets Supervisor

Artificial Intelligence

• Design integrated learning interventions combining AI literacy, data literacy and core business skills, translating strategic concepts such as tool readiness, professional judgement and safe AI use into practical, applied experiences that build confidence and capability
• Sequence learning alongside tool and technology adoption by collaborating with HR, DTI and business areas, ensuring training reinforces trust, enables process and automation thinking, and improves workflow design capability
• Define and communicate tool readiness requirements across roles and cohorts, aligning capability development with organisational needs to support effective and scalable AI and data adoption
• Develop scenario-based, role-specific learning grounded in real organisational workflows, enabling colleagues to apply AI and data skills directly within their day-to-day responsibilities
• Embed behavioural and judgement-focused learning that promotes safe and ethical AI use, deepens understanding of data governance and accountability, and supports effective manager role modelling
• Pilot targeted learning interventions with defined cohorts, evaluating effectiveness through behavioural change, process efficiency and quality outcomes, and refining approaches using data-driven feedback
• Engage and align stakeholders across HR, DTI and business functions to co-create learning solutions that are strategically aligned, operationally relevant and scalable across the organisation
• Contribute to organisational capability building by shaping integrated AI, data and digital upskilling approaches, helping shape how training, tooling and governance combine to enable safe adoption and positioning the role as a key driver of future skills development

L&D Consultant – AI and Data Upskilling

Financial Crime

• Conduct and deliver supervisory and intelligence work on firms subject to the Money Laundering Regulations, including assessing business models, AML control frameworks and indicators of financial crime risk, unregistered activity or wider consumer harm
• Analyse complex information from multiple sources, including firm submissions, open-source material, Companies House data, internal intelligence and case material, to identify risks and support evidence-based decision-making
• Assess firms’ compliance with the Money Laundering Regulations, with a focus on areas such as business-wide risk assessments, customer risk assessments, customer due diligence, ongoing monitoring, governance and training
• Support the identification and development of cases, supervisory interventions, proactive programmes and portfolio/thematic work designed to address financial crime risk, weaknesses in AML systems and controls, potential unregistered activity or wider consumer harm
• Draft high-quality briefings, assessments, recommendations and internal papers for senior stakeholders, clearly setting out risk, rationale and proposed next steps
• Build and maintain effective working relationships across the FCA, including with supervision, intelligence, enforcement and policy colleagues
• Support engagement with firms where required, including information requests, follow-up questions and analysis of responses
• Help develop team knowledge, improve processes and contribute to a supportive team culture

Senior Financial Crime Market Interventions Associate

Data Management

• Lead improvements to external markets data provision by ensuring the information is complete, relevant and accessible
• Being the business product owner for the National Storage Mechanism, liaising with other areas to ensure the process and systems are operational, resilient and meet evolving needs
• Working with others across the FCA, including change and technology teams, to deliver our short-term plans to increase transparency through ongoing projects
• Leading work to build an ambitious medium-term plan for how we further enhance market transparency
• Working with others to ensure we have a comprehensive and engaging communication plan to gather user feedback and raise awareness internally and externally of our information
• Drive data quality across key datasets (organisations, securities, disclosures), embedding robust data management processes and supporting the shift to a more proactive, data-led regulatory approach
• Support Market Oversight initiatives, improving effectiveness and efficiency through better use of technology and data and contributing to wider cross-team work

Senior Data Management Associate – 12 month FTC

• Work across a diverse range of innovative business and operating models in the rapidly evolving crypto assets and payments sector, building expertise at the forefront of financial regulation
• Lead some of the FCA’s most high-profile and complex cases, assessing compliance, identifying risks and taking swift action to reduce harm across both registered and unregistered firms
• Partner across the FCA and with UK and international stakeholders to deliver coordinated regulatory strategies that support markets and protect consumers
• Tackle complex cross-border challenges linked to digital assets, helping prevent financial crime, scams and other harms that can impact millions of consumers across the UK
• Influence senior industry leaders, drive improvements in standards and, where necessary, take decisive regulatory action to safeguard consumers and support market integrity

Senior Cryptoasset and Payment Supervisor

• Play a key role in overseeing firms operating in the crypto and payments sectors, gaining exposure to innovative business models while helping to protect consumers and support market integrity
• Assess compliance with regulatory requirements, identify emerging risks and take timely action to reduce harm across both registered and unregistered markets
• Build strong partnerships across the FCA, collaborating with colleagues in Authorisations, Policy, Enforcement and SPEP to deliver coordinated, effective regulatory outcomes
• Work with UK and international partners, including law enforcement and regulatory bodies, to address complex cross-border risks and enhance consumer protection in a rapidly evolving sector
• Partner with senior industry leaders to help create positive change, improve standards and, where necessary, support decisive regulatory interventions that help safeguard millions of consumers and build trust in financial markets

Cryptoasset and Payments Supervisor

User Researcher

• Provide profession leadership for the user research community, shaping direction and promoting consistent, high-quality practice across the organisation
• Maintain and continuously evolve standards for user research, ensuring approaches remain relevant, effective and aligned with organisational priorities
• Contribute to the delivery of the user-centred design leadership roadmap in collaboration with Centre of Excellence Leads, aligning activity to strategic outcomes
• Assess and prioritise emerging demand alongside Centre of Excellence Leads, ensuring resource is focused on areas of highest value and impact
• Advance user research practice, building on existing foundations to develop capability and maturity across the community
• Deliver impactful work that supports outcomes focused on helping consumers avoid financial harm and promoting fair, effective markets
• Enable products and services to better meet the needs of firms, consumers and internal users by embedding user-centred insights into design and delivery
• Engage with and support a collaborative community of practitioners, contributing to a positive culture that advances user-centred thinking and organisational effectiveness

Lead User Researcher

Data Analyst

• Build effective working relationships with stakeholders across the FCA to support alignment with data collection best practice, while applying appropriate challenge
• Evaluate data collection proposals to assess quality, value, proportionality, and risk, while providing constructive feedback to enhance outcomes
• Develop clear, reusable data collection processes, documentation, and templates to enable consistent and scalable self-service approaches
• Apply analytical thinking to identify and assess issues in data collection design, improving data quality, consistency, and decision making
• Use data tools and techniques including SQL, Python, and visualisation tools to validate and interrogate datasets, ensuring accuracy and integrity
• Identify data issues and implement reproducible analytical approaches to support consistent and reliable management information reporting
• Contribute to continuous improvement of end-to-end data collection processes by identifying opportunities to enhance tools, processes, and reporting capabilities
• Provide clear guidance within established frameworks, promoting best practice across the FCA to improve data collection approaches

Data Analyst, Data Collection

Analyst

• Support the Buyside market strategy lifecycle, risk processes and harm mitigation workstreams, enabling better regulatory outcomes and making a tangible difference to market integrity and consumer protection
• Transform data into insight by gathering and analysing intelligence to identify key risks and opportunities in the Buyside sector helping shape informed, evidence‑based decision‑making at a strategic level
• Apply market knowledge by developing a solid understanding of the asset management landscape, distribution channels, and wider macroeconomic and operational trends building skills that directly influences how firms are supervised and supported
• Spot and prioritise emerging risks by identifying, tracking, and escalating key directorate risks and contributing to forums such as the Firm and Fund Forum, ensuring proactive responses to evolving market challenges
• Support communication by producing high-quality reports, briefings, speeches, and presentations for internal and external audiences improving stakeholder engagement and supporting senior decision-making
• Enhance regulatory effectiveness through data by exploring innovative ways to use data to refine and improve regulatory focus, leading to smarter, more targeted oversight across the sector

Senior Market Analyst

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Ongoing development and implementation of a monitoring and assessment framework for wholesale market integrity risks (concentrations, leverage and interconnectedness)
• Analysing, assessing and communicating on the materiality of one or more market wide risks- through the use and deployment of risk sensitive data and pertinent visualisations
• Developing recommendations to reduce such risks
• Developing real time assessments of the health of market functioning in both normal and stress times.
• Participating in responses to market events and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to mitigate impacts on consumer and markets
• Working with and coordinating with stakeholders, internal and external, to deliver outcomes on wholesale markets
• Contributing to and overseeing the preparation of internal and external communications on market integrity and market functioning risk assessments

Financial Markets Specialist

• Leading the design and implementation of a data led monitoring approach to market wide risks of concentrations, leverage and interconnectedness across UK markets
• Leading, designing and communicating on the analytical assessment of the market wide risks- through the use and deployment of risk sensitive data and pertinent visualisations
• Leading recommendations to reduce such risks through firm outreach, or publications or more tailored analysis.
• Designing and leading the real time assessment of the health of market functioning in both normal and stress times.
• Leading responses to market events, including engaging with firms to gather information, and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to mitigate impacts on consumer and markets
• Leading the communication, both internal and external, on the market wide monitoring and risks assessment
• Working as part of a team to undertake proactive thematic projects relating to risks present across the market

Financial Markets Expert

Data Engineer

• Leverage high performance pipelines of trading and position data, transforming millions of daily records into model‑ready datasets for risk and market analysis
• Build interactive dashboards and web apps, turning unique regulatory markets data into system-wide views across fixed income, commodities, FX and equities helping stakeholders build a detailed understanding firm and sector risks through flow and exposure data
• Be part of the analysis on diverse and stimulating issues, empowering market abuse, policy and supervisory teams to make informed, timely decisions whilst gaining exposure to a broad range of markets and financial products
• Opportunity to be involved in shaping how data are harnessed to monitor and supervise firms and markets

Markets Data Engineer

Data Scientist

• Leading the optimisation of high-performance pipelines of trading and position data, transforming millions of daily records into model‑ready datasets for risk and market analysis
• Owning the design and insights from interactive dashboards and web apps, turning unique regulatory markets data into system-wide views across fixed income, commodities, FX and equities helping stakeholders build a detailed understanding firm and sector risks through flow and exposure data
• Leading analysis on diverse and stimulating issues, empowering market abuse, policy and supervisory teams to make informed, timely decisions whilst gaining exposure to a broad range of markets and financial products
• Supporting colleagues and growing your technical skills to impactful challenges and play a key role in shaping how data are harnessed to monitor and supervise firms and markets

Markets Data Scientist

Editor

• Develop key explanatory chapters of FCA publications by drafting and refining content in collaboration with policy teams and strategic communication partners to ensure key messages are developed early, understood clearly and embedded in summary material
• Edit a range of publications, digital content, corporate documents and blogs to ensure they are clear, concise and meet plain English standards, while peer writing with colleagues across the FCA where necessary
• Use AI tools to improve drafting and editorial processes through building, testing and refining prompts to guide policy and corporate teams so they consistently deliver sharp, clear and easily digestible documents
• Support and advocate for the organisation’s tone of voice and writing style by educating colleagues so they understand why this approach is used and how to apply it effectively
• Guide and shape the tone and content of written work using experience and creativity to enhance communication impact and consistency
• Collaborate with colleagues across the Communication Directorate, including Strategic Comms and News, Digital and Design, social media and Speechwriting to ensure joined up and effective outputs

Editorial Specialist

• Contributing to FCA consolidation planning and approach to supervision post legal cutover
• Managing supervisory relationships with participants in payments systems across a range of the PSR’s rules and regulations
• Contributing to the development and continuous improvement of the PSR’s supervisory approach, including by identifying emerging risks, lessons learned and opportunities to enhance effectiveness
• Building a deep understanding of firms in their markets, including their operating environments, business strategies and governance arrangements
• Building effective working relationships with key internal stakeholders and teams whose work is material to supervision
• Promoting a culture of collaboration, inclusion and learning within the PSMI division acting as a role model for PSR values and behaviours