Senior Critical Third-Party Oversight 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.

Are you ready to help shape the FCA’s approach to overseeing Critical Third Parties (CTPs) and the vital services they deliver to the UK financial system?

Join the CTP Oversight team within the Technology, Resilience and Cyber department (TRC) at the FCA.

Under FSMA 2023, the FCA shares responsibility with the PRA and the Bank of England to ensure operational resilience across designated CTPs—an area central to our commitment to reducing disruption across financial services.

You will help shape our oversight strategy and take forward supervision of designated third parties in this high-impact, evolving space.

What will you be doing?

Collaborate with FCA supervisors and operational resilience specialists to help shape the regulators’ joint oversight approach for Critical Third Parties (CTPs) and their services supporting the financial sector

Contribute to the preparation and delivery of departmental engagements with a broad range of stakeholders, including HM Treasury, the Bank of England, PRA, National Cyber Security Centre and International counterparts

Assess CTPs’ compliance against our published rules and resilience expectations, helping to reduce systemic risk to the UK financial system; this includes setting the oversight strategy, doing thematic reviews, preparing meeting agendas and drafting internal briefings

Participate in discussions with senior leaders from CTPs (e.g. CISOs, CIOs, COOs) focused on the resilience of their service delivery

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