Competition Market Analyst

Requirements of the role

About the FCA

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

We are currently looking to recruit someone with experience of market and business model analysis to work in the Competition Market and Policy Department of the Competition Division (CD). CD leads much of the work on FCA’s competition mandate to help ensure markets are working well for consumers.

What will you be doing?

As part of CD, you will get to investigate whether and why financial services markets might not be working well for consumers. You will also help work out how financial services markets could be improved. Working alongside other team members, and key internal stakeholders, the successful candidate will play a key role in contributing and supporting the delivery of CD’s core responsibilities:

• Scoping problems that require investigation, including market failures that may be causing poor outcomes for consumers
• Scoping and recommending how to undertake economic and competition investigation, working with economists, accountants, lawyers and data scientists
• Contributing to project management, supporting the project manager to ensure work is coordinated and on track
• Undertaking your own analysis of markets and business models which could include designing requests for information and evaluating firm responses
• Responsible for presenting insights and findings in an interesting and clear format including written, PowerPoint and orally
• Advocating for competition with internal stakeholders, helping and assisting colleagues to understand and achieve desired outcomes

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