Supervisory Project Lead (12-month FTC)

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). The Project Team carries out short, sharp multi-firm projects, discovery work and thematic reviews that examine the key risks across all Consumer Investment portfolios. The team focuses on high-priority issues across groups of firms to identify poor practice in the market and mitigate harm that could occur to consumers. Depending on the findings it may also require firms to carry out remediation.

Role responsibilities

• Working closely with, and deputising for, the team manager and playing an important part in the department’s leadership and management, thinking strategically about how we approach our work and further ways the team can add value to Consumer Investments
• Acting on their own initiative in planning and overseeing project work, and providing support and oversight to team members, ensuring we make appropriate supervisory decisions
• Developing and delivering supervision and mitigation strategies, setting clear expectations to firms, encouraging, persuading and where appropriate, using formal powers to change conduct behaviour to deliver better outcomes for consumers
• Making sound judgements that solve problems identified, through evidence-based analysis from a wide range of information and data
• Managing and engaging internal and external stakeholders, applying effective communication skills to advance our objectives. Working collaboratively with internal stakeholders to ensure a coordinated approach across the FCA and leverage specialist input where required
• Preparing communications to deliver key messages, both internally and externally, both written and through presentations

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