Investigation & Litigation Casework Support

Requirements of the role

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.

Enforcement and Market Oversight (EMO) Division are recruiting permanent and FTC Investigation and Litigation Support Associates across our Retail and Regulatory (RRI); further vacancies may arise at a later date for the Wholesale and Unauthorised Business (WUBI) teams. As an Investigation and Litigation Support Associate, you’ll support on complex, high-profile cases which regularly attract public attention and help shape the regulatory landscape for firms, markets, and consumers.

EMO leads high-impact enforcement cases across regulatory, civil, disciplinary, and criminal, against firms and individuals. Our investigations drive real change across financial services by holding misconduct to account and protecting consumers, in line with the FCA’s objectives.

Retail and Regulatory Investigations (RRI) focuses on misconduct by regulated firms and individuals across retail banking, asset management, insurance intermediation, crypto assets. Cases typically involve mis-selling, governance failures, client asset issues, and breaches of AML controls.

In addition to opportunities with RRI, opportunities within Wholesale and Unauthorised Business teams may also arise. WUBI investigates serious market abuse and tackle unauthorised financial activity that puts consumers at risk.

What will you be doing?

Investigation & Litigation Support Associates are key members of our case teams and play a vital role throughout the wider department.

As a Support Associate, you are responsible for the overall administration of our case work, your core tasks are:

Managing the uploading of material onto document management systems and ensuring compliance with document management protocols

Conducting general administrative tasks relating to investigations

Reviewing and the categorisation of evidence

Drafting documents (including correspondence, memoranda, reports and minutes of internal and external meetings), proof reading, preparation of bundles for interviews with witnesses and subjects, for disclosure and for court and tribunal proceedings

Document and project management records and tasks, including recording key case decisions, carrying out intelligence checks, company house searches and other research

Communicating effectively with team members about the progress of tasks

There is also scope for the post holder to assist with investigative tasks (e.g. interviewing and preparing witness statements) as required subject to skills and experience or, subject to core tasks being completed, as part of meeting developmental needs under the supervision of experienced investigators.

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