Jobs at Financial Conduct Authority

Lead the vision, strategy, roadmap, lifecycle, performance, and budget for a complex graph analytics product. Apply graph technology expertise to product decisions, architecture reviews, and analytical proposals. Coordinate multidisciplinary, platform, and engineering teams; prioritize outcomes; engage users and senior stakeholders; and use research and evidence to improve adoption, value, security, governance, privacy, and operational resilience.

Leads FCA oversight of fixed income, currencies, and commodities markets, shaping strategy, market surveillance technology transformation, data and analytics capabilities, operating models, and regulatory coordination. The role develops specialist teams, strengthens market resilience and integrity, manages organisational change, and represents the FCA with senior UK and international financial-market stakeholders.

Provides independent, risk-based security assurance for AI capabilities across cloud, SaaS, hybrid, and internally developed environments. Reviews AI architectures, controls, risks, monitoring, and security posture; validates findings and remediation; develops AI assurance frameworks, inventories, criteria, and control baselines; and advises stakeholders on pragmatic risk treatment. Key focus areas include prompt injection, data exposure, model poisoning, identity, guardrails, supply-chain security, resilience, and incident response.

Lead the FCA’s global trade and international market access policy, advising on free trade agreements, digital economy agreements, WTO matters, equivalence, and international negotiations. Provide strategic and technical advice to internal policy teams and HM Treasury, assess regulatory proposals against international trade obligations, support market access strategy, and engage senior stakeholders across domestic and international policy matters.

Develops evidence-based cryptoasset policy for the FCA, including research, policy recommendations, consultations, stakeholder engagement, regulatory briefings, and training. The role supports the creation and implementation of rules affecting cryptoasset markets, retail consumers, competition, and financial services. It requires policy analysis, clear communication, problem solving, organization, and relationship management across government, regulators, industry, and internal teams.

Leads the development and enhancement of prudential policy and regulatory frameworks for FCA-regulated firms. Responsibilities include analyzing capital, liquidity, stress-testing and prudential risks; managing complex policy workstreams; advising senior leaders; engaging regulators, firms and industry bodies; leading consultations; interpreting rules; and managing and developing junior staff.

Conduct financial resilience assessments of FCA-regulated firms, identify prudential risks, and provide evidence-based recommendations for regulatory decisions. Apply prudential frameworks, assess financial resilience and compliance, collaborate with supervisors and stakeholders, and contribute to strategic regulatory work. Coach and mentor colleagues while managing complex issues, leading projects, and supporting effective regulatory outcomes.

Identifies and prioritizes high-value AI opportunities across the organization. Facilitates discovery workshops, maps processes, gathers requirements, influences senior stakeholders, and collaborates with technical teams to design AI-enabled solutions. Manages an AI initiative pipeline, supports AI adoption strategy, promotes business analysis best practices, and contributes to innovative projects involving financial crime and consumer protection.

Lead data-driven monitoring of UK wholesale financial markets, identifying market-wide risks and assessing market health in real time. Analyze trading strategies, market data, and firm behavior across fixed income, equity, rates, derivatives, commodities, energy, or metals markets. Produce clear insights, visualizations, recommendations, and communications for senior stakeholders while collaborating with firms, regulators, and FCA teams on market integrity and resilience.

Monitors UK financial markets and develops frameworks to assess market integrity risks, including leverage, concentration, and interconnectedness. Analyzes market data and trading strategies, produces risk assessments and visualizations, responds to market events, and delivers evidence-based recommendations. The role also involves leading projects, influencing stakeholders, coordinating with regulators, and communicating market developments to senior audiences.

Develops the FCA’s crisis management and organisational resilience capabilities. The role translates incident, exercise, inquiry and industry lessons into framework updates, remediation actions, training objectives and capability pathways. It sponsors workshops and learning programmes, evaluates their effectiveness, advises stakeholders, and promotes preparedness across the organisation. The specialist collaborates with crisis management, operational resilience and organisational capability teams while supporting planning, exercising and response activities.

Leads the FCA’s independent Internal Audit function, reporting to the Chief Executive and Audit Committee Chair. Develops risk-based audit strategy, digitally enabled operating models, and quality standards; advises senior leaders and boards; coordinates assurance across Risk, management, and external stakeholders; oversees whistleblowing arrangements; and leads a multidisciplinary team while driving innovation, continuous improvement, and effective governance.

Leads two strategic communications teams, coaches communications professionals, and advises senior leaders on sensitive reputational and political issues. Develops campaigns, communication plans, press releases, social content, internal messaging, and stakeholder communications. Manages proactive and reactive media relations, crisis communications, media enquiries, and out-of-hours responses. Builds relationships with government, Parliament, consumer groups, trade associations, and media while using monitoring and evaluation tools to assess communications effectiveness.

Manage and modernize the Cyber and Information Resilience Policy Framework, including policies, standards, procedures, waivers, and guidance. Conduct gap analysis and horizon scanning, interpret regulatory and security requirements, support cyber risk and control reporting, and advise stakeholders on policy compliance. Develop a self-service policy model, support organizational change, and provide guidance to investigation teams and HR.