Lawyer, Financial Conduct Authority
£47.2-70.8k
London from £49,700 to £ 74,500
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Financial regulation service
Be an early applicant
Financial regulation service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£47.2-70.8k
London from £49,700 to £ 74,500
More information about 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
- Applicants must be a qualified lawyer (solicitor, barrister or Chartered Legal Executive) or foreign qualified, who is newly qualified to 3 years’ PQE
- Direct experience of in house, public sector or private practice (financial services regulatory experience, including issues related to cryptoassets, is desirable, but not essential)
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to deliver good and clear analysis of issues
- Ability to learn about new or novel legal issues quickly and with enthusiasm, with the necessary oversight and support of colleagues
- Ability to create solutions and deliver pragmatic outcome-focused judgments
- Ability to advise in a confident and reasoned manner, and to challenge appropriately
- Ability to build and sustain positive relationships and good communication skills
What the job involves
- Division: Legal
- Department: Funds & Wholesale Department
- This role is graded as: Associate - level 8 - Practising legal
- 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
- The Wholesale and Perimeter team is one of two teams within the Funds & Wholesale Department, part of the Regulatory and Corporate Legal Directorate in the Legal Division
- The team advises on the regulatory perimeter, cryptoassets, wholesale firm supervision and wholesale conduct issues, benchmarks, ESG matters including the sustainable disclosures regime, operational resilience, the critical third parties regime, and the senior managers and certification regime
- The Wholesale and Perimeter team mainly focuses on:
- The development of the UK’s regulatory regime for cryptoassets
- The development and implementation of the new regulatory regime for critical third parties
- The FCA’s disclosure requirements relating to ESG matters, including the new sustainable disclosures regime
- Advising on the regulatory perimeter
- Providing legal support in respect of the supervision of wholesale firms supervised by the FCA, including investment banks, wholesale intermediaries, asset managers, benchmark administrators and commodity firms
- Advising FCA Policy and Supervision on the senior managers and certification regime
Application process
- End Date: March 10, 2026
- Your recruitment contact is Raimonda Stankute via Raimonda.Stankute@fca.org.uk. Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted
- Job advert closes: midnight on 9th March
- CV Review/Shortlist: 11th March
- Interview: w/c 16th March
- 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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