Job title: Senior Technology, Resilience & Cyber Supervisor
Division: Supervision, Policy & Competition
Department: Technology, Resilience & Cyber
Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £53,800 - £71,666 and London from £59,200 - £78,800 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
This role is graded as: Senior Associate - Regulatory
Your recruitment contact is Tahir Khan 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, 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:
Act as a subject matter expert (SME) across the FCA, providing clear, evidence‑based assessments and insight to senior stakeholders
Engage with firms, industry bodies and other authorities (e.g., PRA, BoE) to support effective supervisory outcomes and represent TRC expertise
Lead or support reviews of firms to provide assessments on whether a firm's technology and cyber resilience arrangements provide sufficient comfort, recommending action points where this is not the case
Analyse firms’ responses to crystallised technology or cyber risks and advise supervisors on appropriate remediation
Support or lead complex projects/tasks which may involve several people
Prepare and deliver presentations, briefings and updates to committees or other stakeholders.
Contribute to TRC’s internal capability development through knowledge‑sharing, coaching and supporting colleagues.
Promote high standards of judgement, methodological approach, and professional challenge in line with FCA values
Skills required:
Minimum:
Proven experience of assessing technology and cyber resilience capabilities
Demonstrable experience delivering judgement‑based assessments of technology, cyber or operational resilience risks in regulated sector
Demonstrable experience with translating complex technical findings into clear, actionable supervisory insights
Essential:
Broad experience across a number technology & cyber resilience management domains Exposure to and understanding of technology & cyber resilience management frameworks (e.g. COBIT, NIST)
Demonstrated oral communication skills including clear and effective presentation to both internal and external audiences
Well-developed analytical capability, sound judgement, and a commitment to high standards of quality
Experience engaging professionally with senior stakeholders internally and externally
An industry recognised qualification e.g. QiCA, CISA, CISM, CISSP etc
Benefits:
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation of 50% for senior leaders). Changing from September to a minimum of 50% in the office each month (expectation of 60% for Directors and Executive Directors)
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 & 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: Sunday 12th April at 23:59pm
CV Review/Shortlist: 14th April
Pre-interview call: w/c 20th April
Case Study Assessment & Interview: w/c 27th April
SC Clearance is required for this role (SC Guidance) - you will hold or will be required to obtain Security Check (SC) level vetting
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.









