Manager – Regulatory

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.

The Specialist Intelligence Department (SID) delivers insight and impact from intelligence, to support the FCA in its statutory responsibilities. The department contributes to all 4 areas of the FCA Strategy: fighting crime, helping consumers, supporting growth and being a smarter regulator. This role will be central to the fighting financial crime objectives focusing on those who seek to use the fact they’re regulated to do harm; and to disrupt criminals and support firms to be an effective line of defence.

The department contributes intelligence for a range of FCA purposes:  investigations; regulatory breaches; insider dealing; investment fraud; authorisations, and approved person applications; and supports the FCA’s work with whistle-blowers.

The Specialist Collection (SC) Team is integral to improving intelligence-led approaches in support of criminal and regulatory investigations across the FCA. The work focuses on the early detection, and prevention of crime along with reducing harm. SC’s operational activity is focused on proactively identifying intelligence/evidential opportunities and developing and delivering new capabilities, whether through internal resources or via external partners. The team are also responsible for assuring legal compliance (IPA and RIPA) and managing the associated relationships with OCDA and IPCO.

What will you be doing?

The Manager will lead a team of specialist staff to:

• Deliver high quality intelligence/evidence covering the full range of harms and misconduct the FCA oversees
• Seek the lawful and innovative deployment of capabilities, providing internal stakeholders with advice on how to correctly use specialist capabilities to maximise the operational benefit the FCA can gain from their lawful usage
• Stay at the forefront of developing new capabilities due to operational, technical, and legal changes – to keep the FCA at the forefront for its investigations
• Develop external stakeholder relationships within law enforcement agencies, government, and other regulators to ensure the FCA provides the best intelligence/evidential offering possible within its remit
• Ensure all techniques and tools are covered by appropriate process and governance ‘end to end’ across FCA users to ensure that all FCA staff understand the need for legal compliance over the use of specialist tools
• Develop and design new ways of covert working practices within the regulatory sector

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