Description:
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, our Technology, Resilience and Cyber (TRC) department works with financial firms to strengthen the resilience of their systems against cyber threats and operational disruptions -helping protect consumers, safeguard markets, and build trust in the technology that powers financial services.
Role Responsibilities
- This role will provide the opportunity to be part of a ground-breaking new regulatory regime – one of the first in the world – overseeing critical third parties supporting the UK financial system. You will get the opportunity to work with providers critical to the functioning of UK financial services, to ensure that we minimise the impact of operational disruptions on the financial services industry, enhancing UK economic stability, competitiveness and economic growth. Support the Lead Data Analyst by delivering accurate data and insights that strengthen supervisory oversight of Critical Third Parties (CTP) and enhance the operational resilience of regulated firms
- You will get to work on a broad range of topics such as operational and cyber resilience, third party risk and incidents giving you unique insight into the full range of work across the department. Conduct robust, data-driven analysis to identify systemic third parties in the UK financial sector, enabling supervisors and senior leadership to make informed decisions and better understand market dynamics
- Produce clear, impactful Management Information reports that equip senior stakeholders with actionable intelligence on CTP and firm supervisory oversight
- Leverage data and intelligence to create innovative tools and insights that add measurable value to oversight activities
- You will develop a wide network across UK and international regulators, government departments and industry
Minimum Skills required
- Proven data analysis experience, including experience of using analytical tools e.g. Tableau, R, Python
- Experience of working in financial services, a regulator or a consultancy working with financial sector firms
- Proven experience of using data to provide consultative expertise to our stakeholders, showcasing proven stakeholder management skills
Essential
- Experience of identifying and solving business problems using data and understanding statistical concepts to improve how we work across the department. Knowledge or a strong interest in building up understanding of the Critical Third-Party regime; Operational resilience; Cyber resilience; Third Party risk; and new and emerging technologies
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills with the confidence to interact effectively with a range of both domestic and international stakeholders, including senior executives within the FCA, other global regulators and industry
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, capable of drafting and delivering complex papers and presentations for FCA executive committees and external stakeholders
- Strong project management capability to help plan, prioritise and allocate work across a team
- Ability to balance and manage priorities, working flexibly and pragmatically when priorities change