Innovation Engagement and Co-ordination Senior Associate

Innovation Engagement and Co-ordination Senior Associate

The team/department

An innovative industry demands an innovative regulator.

The FCA’s Innovation department is looking for talented, motivated and outcome focused individuals with varied experience and backgrounds to join our enthusiastic and diverse team. We sit within the Data, Technology and Innovation Division, which is at the forefront of transforming the FCA as we meet the demands of a digital regulatory future.

We support the FCA to be a progressive and forward-thinking regulator. We protect consumers, encourage competition and work with innovative financial services firms to deliver the best products and services that they can. We see our role as enabling the financial services sector to achieve its potential. In a nutshell, we want to support innovative businesses in the interest of consumers and markets, not just scrutinise them.

We are currently recruiting an Engagement and Co-ordination lead to join our Change and Development team.

Change and Development is a new team within Innovation. Technology is rapidly changing financial services and we must ensure that we evolve alongside the industry we regulate. Our aim is to be at the forefront of regulatory innovation – over the last few years our Regulatory Sandbox, firm support model, and TechSprint programme have been adopted by other regulators around the world, as well as producing cutting-edge thinking in sectors such as artificial intelligence and emerging technology.

But in the Change team, our role is to ask, “what’s next?”. And then build it.

We’re responsible for the department’s transformation agenda, including scoping and developing new service lines and initiatives, optimising existing ones, as well as our external and internal engagement programme.

In this role you will work with a broad array of stakeholders on exciting cross-cutting sectors. We work closely with technologists, financial institutions, start-ups, academia and peer regulators to ensure that FCA Innovation is a modern and bleeding-edge regulatory function.

For anyone thinking of joining, a strong interest in emerging technology such as AI, CryptoAssets, Machine Learning, DLT and blockchain, cloud and digital transformation would be a plus.

What you will be doing (the role)

The skills and experience you will have

Minimum

We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role. A minimum criterion needs to be measurable from reviewing a candidate’s CV.

Exceptions may apply if due to the volume of applications we are not able to interview all eligible candidates who qualify under the scheme.

Essential

Desirable

What you will get from the role

The job grade for this role is Senior Associate – Corporate

Our competitive Flexible Benefits Scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash. Additional information on the core benefits you will receive can be found .

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found

The FCA's Values & Diversity

Our ambition is to create a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the society we serve, helping us to be a better regulator

Flexible working

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working from home, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking.

Multilocation & hybrid working

As part of the FCA’s on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, and London offices. This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from. The FCA also supports hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.

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