Senior Economist (12 month FTC)

Requirements of the role

The Economics Division is formed by a diverse mix of backgrounds and works closely with colleagues across the FCA to ensure high-quality and effective choices across all aspects of FCA regulation.

Role responsibilities

• Own Key Risk Initiatives: Guide elements of the FCA’s work on Risk Rebalancing and Tolerable Failure by refining analytical frameworks and ensuring their effective use across the organisation
• Showcase Real-World Outcomes: Develop case studies that demonstrate how the framework applies to authorisation, supervision, and enforcement, informing critical regulatory choices
• Support the rollout of the Analytical Framework internally and externally through briefings, guidance, and consistent implementation across teams
• Innovate for the Future: Contribute to systems-thinking projects and explore AI-driven solutions to enhance economic insight and regulatory effectiveness

Skills required

Minimum:

• Demonstrated background in Economics through a degree in the field or completion of at least half the program’s modules in Economics
• Prior experience applying appropriate economic tools, techniques and methods to a range of analytical problems or research questions, drawing on relevant economic theory
• Demonstrable experience engaging and collaborating effectively with stakeholders (project colleagues, external collaborators, and users and commissioners of project work), to enhance the impact of project outputs

Essential:

• Experience in identifying and analysing different sources of information to inform analysis and the ability to apply economic/analytical principles to issues you are not familiar with
• Ability to have strong personal impact, persuading with well-reasoned arguments and challenging where appropriate
• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with internal and external stakeholders, developing and maintaining working relationships
• Willingness to explore new techniques and approaches to economics work, including systems thinking and the role of AI in economic insights
• Experience applying an analytical lens to the practical rebalancing of risk, including assessing trade-offs, tolerances, and distributional impacts to inform real-world policy, regulatory, or strategic decisions

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