Lead Prudential Risk Specialist, Financial Conduct Authority
£59.1-95k
Salary dependent on location
Financial regulation service
Be an early applicant
Financial regulation service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£59.1-95k
Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable a fair and thriving financial services market for the good of consumers and the economy.
Role
Who you are
- Prior experience of using sound judgement and making logical and timely decisions, cutting through complexity, weighing risks and implications
- Demonstrated experience in financial resilience, including risk management, accounting, audit, compliance, and related regulatory roles
- Demonstrable experience of communicating complex issues clearly and succinctly to internal and external audiences, both orally and in writing, while effectively identifying and managing key stakeholders
- Reviewing complex risk management frameworks and prudential issues with sound judgement and analytical rigour
- Overseeing the identification and remediation of prudential risks to reduce potential harm to consumers and markets
- Demonstrating effective teamwork and an inclusive approach, with the ability to build consensus and align others towards shared departmental goals
- Providing coaching and mentoring on technical and professional matters to support the development of colleagues
- Presenting complex issues and critical judgements confidently to senior internal and external stakeholders
What the job involves
- This role is graded as: Lead Associate - Regulatory
- 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
- 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
- Conduct financial resilience assessments of firms with diverse business models across the wholesale and retail financial services sectors
- Deliver high quality assessments and analysis efficiently, ensuring timely, accurate outputs that enable informed outcomes and regulatory confidence
- Handle prudential queries and coach supervisors and others in the department, providing clear guidance and building capability to enhance compliance and industry best practice
- Produce impactful, evidence-based work, translating analysis into actionable insights that shape policy and improve financial resilience
- Communicating the results of our work to both internal and external senior stakeholders
- Role model FCA values and behaviours, demonstrating Judgement, Engagement, Delivery, and Self-Management to inspire collaboration and integrity
Application process
- End Date: March 18, 2026
- Advert Closing: 17th March
- CV Review/Shortlist: 19th March
- Interviews: w/c 23rd March
- Your recruitment contact is Riley via riley.fox@fca.org.uk. Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted
- Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time
Our take
Developed on the back of the Financial Services Act of 2012, the Financial Conduct Authority is a regulatory body that acts as a regulator for financial firms, ensuring the integrity of the financial markets in the UK. Broadly focused on financial companies that provide consumer services, it’s governed by the Bank of England and therefore acts independently of the government.
The FCA is responsible for regulatory innovations, such as stronger customer authentication requirements, including biometric and code requirements for payments, that have clamped down on fraud and improved security for national consumers. The FCA also introduced the Anti-Money Laundering Supervision in 2017.
The organisation’s independence from government ensures its impartiality as a regulator. In the late 2010s, it set up the cryptoasset registration, a department responsible for ensuring the legality of crypto payments. This has become an important aspect of national counter terrorism measures, and exemplifies the complex and vital work that the organisation carries out.
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Company benefits
- 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
- Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time)
- Private healthcare with Bupa
- A non-contributory Pension of at least 8%
- Life assurance
- Income protection
Company HQ
Stratford Cross, London, UK
Leadership
Nikhil Rathi
(CEO)Previously the Private Secretary to UK Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and was the Chief of Staff and Director of International Development at the London Stock Exchange. Studied at St Anne's College Oxford.
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