Policy Lead (Modernising Payments Regulation)

Requirements of the role

We regulate financial services firms in the UK, to keep financial markets fair, thriving and effective. By joining us, you’ll play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance services.

SPC oversees firms and individuals (supervision), creates and reviews the rules by which they operate (policy) and identifies and remedies ineffective competition in markets (competition).

Sitting in the Payments and Digital Assets directorate, the Policy department develops policy to address the challenges and opportunities the FCA identifies in payment, crypto, open banking and open finance sectors.

Role responsibilities:

• Support the Payment Policy Manager in maintaining and managing a friendly, supportive, and high performing policy team, with direct line-management responsibilities for around five Associates and Senior Associates
• Managing key policy workstreams within our Modernising Payments Regulation programme, working closely with colleagues in Supervision, Authorisation, Legal, Communications and in other policy teams
• Establishing and maintaining effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
• Work very closely with others in the regulatory family including the Treasury and Payments Systems Regulator (PSR), as well as other external stakeholders

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