Lead Market Conduct and Post Trade Policy Associate

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.

We have an exciting opportunity for a skilled, ambitious and proactive individual with project management and policymaking experience to join the Market Conduct and Post Trade Policy team within the Capital

Markets Department.

You will join a dedicated team of policy professionals who are focused on shaping creative and evidence-based policy solutions that benefit consumers, markets and competition. We work collaboratively, including stakeholders across the FCA and externally, to solve problems and deliver market integrity. We are committed to sharing our knowledge and encouraging new ideas.

Our team is responsible for making policy relevant to a diverse portfolio including market abuse, short selling, derivatives and settlement. This includes work to support growth and innovation as well as the wider Government reform agenda including the repeal and replace of the Short Selling Regulation (UK SSR) and the UK version of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (UK EMIR), the Digital Securities Sandbox, the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange (PISCES), the UK move to T+1 settlement and dematerialisation. We are particularly looking for candidates with an understanding of the legal framework relating to any of these policy areas and/or a regulatory or policy background.

What will you be doing?

• Supporting the manager in overseeing the activity of the team whilst helping to motivate and set direction and allocating and tracking delivery of tasks whilst pushing forward high-quality performance
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  managing 1/2 associates, coaching and developing members of the team and sharing knowledge actively across the team
• Driving and overseeing policy workstreams to support the Government agenda to lead innovation and efficiency in the UK markets
• Critical and creative thinking as the UK moves into a new phase of policymaking in wholesale markets
• Helping to manage relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders as well as engaging effectively with key internal and other regulatory stakeholders, including international regulators, HM Treasury, Prudential Regulation Authority, the Bank of England and our independent panels, to communicate FCA policy views and influence others

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