Manager – Interventions Team

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.

Our Interventions powers enable the FCA to take early action where there is an ongoing risk of harm occurring. The FCA EMO Interventions team supports the FCA to intervene assertively to stop consumer harm, impose restrictions or requirements on firms and enforce the Threshold Conditions. Retail 4 consists of two Interventions, and two Threshold Conditions Teams. We are recruiting for a manager for one of the two Interventions Teams.

The Interventions Team Manager is a critical role within EMO and the wider organisation.   You will be expected to provide strong leadership to a mainly practising legal team, to develop the talent within that team, delegate responsibly, and to set clear standards for the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of the team’s output.  You will be responsible for managing a challenging portfolio of cases in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.  To succeed, you will need to make high quality prioritisation decisions through effective use of management information and be adept in allocating resource in an agile way to meet changing priorities.  

What will you be doing?

Providing technical legal and strategic advice on a wide range of complex supervisory and enforcement matters, often under time and stakeholder pressure

Preparing applications and taking urgent action using a range of tools to mitigate emerging and ongoing risks in the most effective way

Progressing a caseload and providing expert advice on, and oversight of, key interventions cases

Providing legal advice to Executive Decision Makers on Interventions cases and presenting on key Interventions matters

Assisting the Department Management team, providing strategic thought informed by visibility of complex issues across the Department and wider FCA and inputting into Management Information (MI)

Working collaboratively with the other interventions team manager identifying emerging trends and associated training or change needs

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