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Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted.\n\nAbout the FCA and Team\nWe 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 financial services.\nSPC 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 Market Intervention department supervises and enforces regulatory standards in cryptoasset firms, and other firms with crypto-adjacent business models.\nWe are operating in a particularly interesting period of cryptoasset regulation which will bring all firms conducting qualifying activity in the UK within the FCA’s regulatory perimeter. The new rules will require firms to implement full Financial Services & Markets Act (FSMA) requirements to ensure high standards of conduct, prudential management and market integrity. Significant work is underway to help ensure that FCA is ready for this transition, and can deliver the necessary functions in Authorisations, Supervision and Policy to make it a success.\nRole Responsibilities\nOur Registered team are responsible for supervising firms’ compliance with the Money Laundering Regulations (MLRs). The team identify, manage, and mitigate risks of potential harm arising in firms, including rapidly intervening where firms are at risk of being used as conduits for illegal activity, or pose a harm to consumers or market integrity. The team has a key role to play in ensuring the effective embedding of the new regime both internally and externally. In the future, we will be supervising firms’ compliance under FSMA.\nLine managing colleagues, including closely managing performance and talent as necessary\nCarefully planning, prioritising, and allocating supervisory work across the team\nAssessing cases of varying complexity, and making sound, consistent, and timely regulatory judgements\nFormulating strategies to deal with complex or novel issues arising domestically or internationally\nDelivering through others, by coaching colleagues in technical knowledge, case strategies, and firm interactions\nSupporting build of the supervisory framework, infrastructure, operating model and processes to allow MIDA and SPC, including specialist supervisors, to effectively supervise crypto firms under the future regulatory regime\nWork with firms to ensure they can meet full new FSMA requirements by 25 October 2027 (implementation date)\nEstablishing and maintaining effective relationships with a wide range of internal stakeholders, including financial crime specialists, legal advisors, Authorisations, Intelligence, Enforcement and Policy teams\n\nSkills Required\nMinimum:\nPrior people management experience demonstrating the ability to support, coach and develop those with a range of backgrounds\nDemonstrable experience of assessing and analysing information including analysing complex information and data, exercising robust, consistent judgements that balance a range of competing factors, and synthesising supervision or investigation strategies\nExperience of supervision or investigations under the MLRs or Payments Services Regulations/Electronic Money Regulations (PSRs/EMRs), and FSMA\n\nEssential:\nA motivated individual who combines structure with careful judgment to reach decisions\nExperience of prioritising the workload of a team, managing your time effectively and using sound judgement to deliver results in a high-case volume environment\nDemonstrated sense of accountability, demonstrating ownership of problems and implementing pragmatic action-based solutions\nFamiliarity with the range of firms across the Digital Assets sector including business models, key products, schemes, systems, and the roles played by various firms and institutions\nDemonstrated ability to balance competing priorities and operate effectively when priorities shift frequently\nAbility to represent yourself and the FCA professionally and credibly, with effective oral and presentation skills\nExperience in managing challenging firms, supporting them through the regulatory process, and maintaining clear standards to deliver positive regulatory outcomes\nExperienced in mentoring peers and providing dependable support to others\nBenefits\n25 days annual leave plus bank holidays\nColleagues spend a minimum of 50% of their working time in the office each month (60% for Directors and Executive Directors) across our London, Leeds and Edinburgh offices\nNon-contributory pension (8-12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary\nPrivate healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance\n35 hours of paid volunteering annually\nA flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle\nFor a full list of our benefits, and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page.\n\nOur Values & Culture\nOur colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. 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