Strategy Implementation and Planning Coordinator

Strategy Implementation and Planning Coordinator

Division: Operations

Department: Strategy

• Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £43,100 to £48,000 and London from £47,300 to £53,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

• This role is graded as: Associate – Level 8

• Your recruitment contact is Riley 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.  

We are looking for a Strategy Implementation and Planning Coordinator to join our busy and varied team. Our department covers a large variety of work from supporting the implementation of our corporate strategy, including reporting on progress against our strategic outcomes and facilitating insights, to business planning and prioritisation.

You will gain a privileged and unique perspective, working within this central department working to support a complex set of stakeholders.

As this role evolves you will have the opportunity to gain more exposure with working across the strategy department and the work we do.

Role responsibilities

• Cross departmental support and planning – maintaining the department weekly planner, supporting our key messages in developing and coordinating the fortnightly note to the COO and departmental MI 

• Strategy implementation support – support coordination of the strategy department’s contribution to delivering the FCA’s strategy 

• Strategy department wide projects - you will be allocated some specific strategy department wide project work (e.g. building project plans, and day to day delivery of activities and initiatives), and in some case partnering with other Divisions such as Economics  

• Risk management - ensuring best practice and governance is followed to support risk management of our own strategy risks 

• Your work will require you to work with a range of stakeholders, be able to join dots across different projects and pieces of work, spot risks or opportunities and be able to work at pace in a pressurised environment

Skills required  

Minimum:

• Prior experience of working on multiple projects, managing competing tasks and prioritizing

• Prior experience engaging with multiple stakeholders at all levels internally and externally 

• Demonstrable experience of supporting, maintaining and enhancing operational and process frameworks e.g. risk management and governance

Essential:

• Ability to identify and connect the dots, spot risks or opportunities

• Be able to work in a pressurised environment

• Prior experience of cross departmental or cross divisional work in a matrix environment 

• Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills. Ability to understand, analyse and summarise key information 

• IT, including Microsoft office package

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

• Advert Closing: 26th February at 11:59pm

• CV Review/Shortlist: 2nd March

• In-tray exercise: to coincide with interview

• Interviews: from 11th March

• 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.