Supervisory Project Lead, Financial Conduct Authority
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
£60.7-77.6k
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Financial regulation service
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Financial regulation service
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£60.7-77.6k
Salary varies depending on location
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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 project management experience leading and supporting on complex, cross-cutting projects in a regulated environment
- Prior experience of building good relationships and effectively engaging with a range of internal and external senior stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience of reviewing complex information, making judgements and presenting key issues and recommendations to senior stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to work on your own initiative, effectively managing and prioritising workload in a demanding environment
- Demonstrated experience working within a compliance function in a regulated firm or regulatory body
- Experience managing, supporting, or mentoring junior team members, with a commitment to their development
- Ability to quickly build understanding of new or unfamiliar topics and address knowledge gaps
- Effective collaborative colleague with an inclusive mindset, capable of working well with others and contributing to shared departmental goals
- High level of responsibility, handling issues and delivering practical, solution-focused outcomes
What the job involves
- 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)
- The Project Team carries out short, sharp multi-firm projects, discovery work and thematic reviews that examine the key risks across all Consumer Investment portfolios
- The team focuses on high-priority issues across groups of firms to identify poor practice in the market and mitigate harm that could occur to consumers. Depending on the findings it may also require firms to carry out remediation
- Working closely with, and deputising for, the team manager and playing an important part in the department’s leadership and management, thinking strategically about how we approach our work and further ways the team can add value to Consumer Investments
- Acting on their own initiative in planning and overseeing project work, and providing support and oversight to team members, ensuring we make appropriate supervisory decisions
- Developing and delivering supervision and mitigation strategies, setting clear expectations to firms, encouraging, persuading and where appropriate, using formal powers to change conduct behaviour to deliver better outcomes for consumers
- Making sound judgements that solve problems identified, through evidence-based analysis from a wide range of information and data
- Managing and engaging internal and external stakeholders, applying effective communication skills to advance our objectives. Working collaboratively with internal stakeholders to ensure a coordinated approach across the FCA and leverage specialist input where required
- Preparing communications to deliver key messages, both internally and externally, both written and through presentations
Application process
- End Date: June 5, 2026
- Your external recruitment contact is Shafika
- Your internal recruitment contact is Isabelle
- Advert Close Date: 4th June 2026
- CV Review/Shortlist: 8th June 2026
- First Interview: 15th June 2026
- For internal applicants, this role will be a 12 Month Acting Up/Secondment
- 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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