Head of Department – Primary Market Oversight

Requirements of the role

At the FCA, we’re creating a fair and more resilient financial system. We’re establishing more transparent relationships between financial services and customers, building trust in financial markets and protecting vulnerable consumers.

We’re currently on an exciting journey as we drive forward significant organisational, people, process, and technology transformation to become a more forward-thinking, proactive regulator. We will use data more effectively to drive better regulatory decisions and build greater cohesion across our broad financial services remit.

Significant improvements in digital enablement, business intelligence, market data and information management maturity are all being pursued to maintain our position as a world leader in financial services regulation.

The Role

Primary Market Oversight focuses on ensuring trusted and orderly primary markets in the UK. This is achieved through the specialist supervision of Sponsor firms and Primary Information Providers, and the live and post-event market monitoring of issuers and other market participants’ disclosures to the market.

PMO is made up of five teams; Primary Market Specialist Supervision, Primary Market Enquiries, the Corporate, Compliance and Thematic team, Primary Market Monitoring and Critical Guidance and Policy. Working closely with colleagues in Listings, Secondary Market Oversight and Market Oversight Data & Intelligence, the PMO department provides a link between the departments in Market Oversight. As a number of our listed entities are also supervised firms, we also work closely with our colleagues in Supervision.

We’re seeking a Head of Department who can provide strategic and tactical leadership to a highly motivated department of subject matter specialists. You will need to be able to challenge the established working practices and make changes as appropriate. You will need to have in depth experience of financial markets with excellent stakeholder management skills.

You will need clear and concise communication skills with the ability to influence senior interlocutors both inside and outside our organisation. You will need a cool head to anticipate and respond to challenge and change and the confidence to lead work in a high-profile area. The successful candidate will be a member of the Senior Leadership Team within Market Oversight.

At present, Market Oversight is going through a period of change, expanding its remit to increase its focus in FICC as well as investing further in the exploitation of our data.

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