Paralegal

Paralegal
Division: Legal
Department: Regulatory and Corporate Legal

• Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £31,600 to £37,233.33 and London from £34,700 to £40,933.33 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

• This role is graded as: Associate – Level 9 – Regulatory

• Your recruitment contact is Rumana Hussain via [email protected]. Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted

We are currently recruiting for two paralegal roles.

About the FCA and team 

The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.

These vacancies are based in the Regulatory and Corporate Legal Directorate (RCL). RCL is part of the Legal Division of the FCA. 

Sitting in the Legal Division, Regulatory & Corporate Legal provides legal advice and support to the FCA on all non-Enforcement activities, including regulatory, policy and operational matters.

Role responsibilities

• Providing supervised legal advice across various areas of RCL’s work, while engaging in satisfying and responsible tasks that offer opportunities to develop and enhance your legal professional skills

• Carrying out legal research and preparing clear, concise research summaries

• Assisting with judicial reviews and other litigation as / when they arise, while developing strong working relationships and liaising with colleagues across the FCA (this includes for example liaising with Counsels clerks to book meetings, assisting with invoicing issues, assisting with Duty of Candour/disclosure exercises, and liaising with colleagues across the FCA)

• Supporting the drafting, proof-reading, and legal review of documents, which may include contributions to FCA Handbook content

• Assisting the knowledge and development lawyer with legal knowledge management tasks and contributing to legal knowhow

• Collating and ordering documents, providing reports, and carrying out general legal administration where required

• Contributing to project management (e.g. preparing and maintaining spreadsheets)

• Communicating effectively with team members about the progress of tasks

Skills required

Minimum:

• Candidates must either have a law degree (or have passed a law conversion course following a degree in another subject) or be able to demonstrate legal training and/or experience to an equivalent level

• Experience of financial services law or public law

Essential:

• Prior experience in a role which has required strong written and verbal communication skills, along with the ability to cultivate and manage stakeholder relationships across all levels

• Ability to apply sound legal reasoning and strong analytical skills to complex and unfamiliar scenarios, ensuring accurate application of the law to reach conclusions and deliver clear advice

• Willingness to accept ownership of tasks and ability to exercise good judgement in completing tasks

• A curious and open disposition to learning, to challenges and to change with the ability to be flexible to tackle new tasks and responsibilities

• Diligent attention to detail and ability to classify and organise information in a comprehensible manner

• Excellent written drafting and verbal communication skills, along with excellent organisational and administrative skills.

• Work collaboratively and inclusively with colleagues of different perspectives and backgrounds

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Hybrid model with up to 60% remote work

• Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary

• Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance

• 35 hours of paid volunteering annually

• A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle

For a full list of our benefits, and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page.

Our values and culture

Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that’s free from discrimination and bias, celebrates difference, and supports colleagues to deliver at their best. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.

If you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition, your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support.

We welcome diverse working styles and aim to find flexible solutions that suit both the role and individual needs, including options like part-time and job sharing where applicable. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we can explore what might work best for both sides. Follow this link to see what life is like at the FCA - Life at the FCA 
 

Disability confident: our hiring approach
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.
 

Useful information and timelines 

Please submit your CV along with your answer to the following question:

“Why do you want to work as a paralegal in the FCA Legal Division?”

Your answer should be no longer than 300 words, will be used to evaluate your written communication skills and must be in your own words. No form of artificial intelligence (AI) should be used to draft your answer to the question, e.g. LLMs such as ChatGPT

Timeline: 

• Job advert close: 12th December 2025

• CV Review/Shortlist: 17th December 2025

• Interview: w/c 12th January 2026

• 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