Jobs at Financial Conduct Authority

Manage complex financial-services regulatory interventions, assess evidence and risks, prepare statutory notices and legal documents, advise decision-makers, and present recommendations to senior stakeholders. The role also involves managing caseloads, overseeing junior colleagues, mentoring and training staff, maintaining stakeholder relationships, and line-managing Associates when required.

Leads technology, operational resilience, and cyber risk supervision across regulated financial services firms. The role assesses technology and cyber capabilities, conducts thematic reviews, identifies emerging risks, benchmarks maturity, and provides evidence-based recommendations. It involves influencing senior stakeholders, partnering with supervision teams and regulatory authorities, shaping FCA strategy, and coaching others. The associate also applies regulatory approaches to technology and cyber resilience and helps strengthen sector-wide practices.

Develops statistical, machine learning, and natural language processing models using consumer and market data to identify emerging risks and consumer harm. Builds scalable analytical solutions, automated workflows, dashboards, and reporting tools for regulatory decision-making. Validates explainable methodologies, supports data governance and compliance, and communicates insights and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Lead regulatory responses to operational resilience incidents and cyber-attacks affecting financial firms. Coordinate incident triage, supervisory actions, cross-authority responses, industry exercises, governance, and senior-level reporting. Provide specialist expertise on cyber resilience, emerging technologies, AI, cloud, and automation while translating complex incidents into clear insights and recommendations. Build stakeholder relationships and promote best practices that strengthen consumer, firm, and financial-sector resilience.

Leads software engineering teams developing digital products with Java, Kotlin, Angular, and AWS. Partners with product owners and architects to deliver scalable solutions, establishes engineering best practices, supports business-critical platforms, resolves technical issues, and mentors junior colleagues. The role requires strong software architecture knowledge, automation experience, stakeholder management, structured problem-solving, and leadership across multiple teams.

Leads the FCA’s third-party cyber risk capability, overseeing supplier assessments, continuous monitoring, risk escalation, incident support, reporting, AI-enabled risk management, and assurance processes. The role develops cyber risk frameworks, manages external assessment providers, strengthens supplier and fourth-party oversight, produces KPIs and KRIs, and advises senior stakeholders. It also leads a cyber risk team, influences procurement and supplier management functions, and represents the FCA with regulatory and industry bodies.

Lead the People Analytics team and strategy, using workforce data to deliver insights for workforce planning, organisational performance, and employee experience. Develop analytical capability, oversee complex analysis, ensure data quality and governance, and provide evidence-based recommendations to senior leaders. Partner across HR, Finance, Technology, and the wider organisation while promoting responsible use of employee data and improving reporting, forecasting, and decision-making.

Manages cross-cutting risks across payments, payment systems, and digital assets. The role consolidates portfolio insights, identifies and prioritizes risks, assesses regulatory interventions, maintains governance and controls, and reports to senior committees. Responsibilities include stakeholder engagement, data analysis, research, impact assessment, risk mitigation monitoring, and presenting concise recommendations to leadership. The successful candidate will work independently across teams and disciplines in a complex regulatory environment.