Private Secretary to Executive Director of Authorisations

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.

Authorising firms and individuals is an integral part of the FCA’s overarching system of supervision of firms. Authorisations aims to ensure that firms and individuals understand and attain our standards of conduct in respect of customer treatment, market integrity and competition whilst also seeking to support the international competitiveness and growth of the UK economy. As the gateway for the UK’s financial services industry, Authorisations makes decisions on thousands of applications from firms and individuals a year. We also respond to thousands of calls from consumers and firms each year, seeking to resolve their queries; supervise a number of early and high growth firms and support the Financial Services Register.

We are looking for a Private Secretary to play a key role in assisting with the smooth running of the Executive Director’s (ED) office, reporting directly to the Executive Director of Authorisations.

We are looking for someone proactive and efficient to join the team, you’ll have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills along with experience of working with regulatory issues and good understanding of the FCA.

What will you be doing?

Working closely with, and providing support and advice to ED Authorisations and their senior team on a range of management, business, regulatory and operational issues including having management oversight of the ED Authorisations’ office

Assisting the ED on a day-to-day basis by managing their collective agenda, priorities, supporting their decision making, and monitoring those decisions to ensure that actions are carried out in a timely and quality manner

Developing an effective and high performing working relationship with the Authorisations Directors’ offices in order that communication between offices is seamless and ensuring the effective flow of information between the ED’s office, the Division, other EDs and other areas of the FCA

Using your judgement and understanding of the wider context to support the ED’s work, to add value to the process and substance of decision making

Represent the Division in a number of FCA working level fora, including key programmes and initiatives, ensuring objectives are aligned and leading on the business planning input from the ED’s perspective

Liaising with the various business partners to ensure the ED has a complete, updated and accurate view of the head count, budget, financials, TOM, MI and vacancy/recruitment activity and leading on the management of key governance fora for the Division, including those related to the new Strategy noting the EDs role in this

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