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Job title: Interim Technical Specialist – Financial Resilience Department (6-9 months)
Division: Supervision, Policy and Competition
Department: Financial Resilience
Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £79,100 to £117,000 and London from £85,000 to £125,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
This role is graded as: Technical Specialist, Regulatory
Your recruitment contact is Shafika via [email protected]. Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted.
About the FCA and team
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, the Financial Resilience department (FRD) leads the FCA’s efforts to minimise consumer and market harm from weaknesses in firms’ financial resilience by setting standards through rules and guidance, and by providing specialist supervision and data capabilities.
Role responsibilities
Apply deep technical expertise to assess financial services firms, markets, and products, ensuring robust evaluations that strengthen market integrity and protect consumers
Lead and guide departmental initiatives, driving high-quality assessments and delivering impactful presentations, shaping regulatory policy that supports the FCA’s strategic priorities
Coach, mentor, and develop talent across the FCA, building analytical and risk management capabilities that elevate organisational performance
Role model FCA values as part of the senior leadership team, fostering a culture of integrity, collaboration, and excellence
Skills required
Minimum:
Proven experience of identifying and quantifying financial risks in firms
Prior experience of dealing with complex issues across different business models
Demonstratable experience with regulatory frameworks and how they can be implemented to ensure sound risk management at in-scope firms
Essential:
Significant work experience in a subject related to risk management, finance, or another quantitative topic
Experience of leading complex projects
Experience of teaching/coaching/mentoring colleagues
The ability to influence senior managers with both oral and written presentations of complex issues in a manner that demonstrates judgement
An inclusive team player who can identify and manage key stakeholders to build a constructive relationship with the ability to persuasively explain complex issues succinctly and with clarity to both internal and external audiences and deliver difficult messages when needed
Benefits
28 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.
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 timeline
Job advert close: 16th December midnight
CV Review/Shortlist: 17th December
First Interview: 19th-23rd December
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.
Top Skills
What We Do
We work to ensure financial markets work well for individuals, for businesses and for the economy as a whole.
We do this by:
- regulating the conduct of approximately 50,000 businesses
- prudentially supervising 48,000 firms
- setting specific standards for around 18,000 firms
We were set up on 1 April 2013, taking over conduct and relevant prudential regulation from the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
Our Head Office is based in London, and we work across the UK, from our office in Edinburgh and via colleagues in Belfast and Cardiff.
Firms and individuals must be authorised or registered by us to carry out certain activities. Before we grant authorisation, firms must demonstrate that they meet a range of requirements. We then supervise these firms to make sure they continue to meet our standards and rules after they’re authorised. If firms and individuals fail to meet these standards, we have a range of enforcement powers we can use.
We work alongside the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), the prudential regulator of around 1,500 banks, building societies, credit unions, insurers and major investment firms.
