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Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted.\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 finance 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).\nSitting within the Payments & Digital Assets directorate (PDA), the Cross-Cutting Delivery Department supports payments and digital finance to develop sector wide strategies and support supervision and policy making through effective risk management, governance, operational efficiency and collaborative partnership with stakeholders.\nThe Risk team within the Cross Cutting Delivery department is responsible for delivering the first line of defence of risk management for payments firms, digital assets and payment systems.\nWe have an exciting opportunity for an expert in risk management of payments firms (electronic money institutions/payments institutions) and/or cryptocurrency, tokenised assets, stable coin or other digital assets to join our team.\nAs the new Department is taking shape, we expect the successful applicant will be working with and supporting other teams within the department as we establish the various functions and ways of working.\nRole responsibilities:\nYou will be responsible for reporting into relevant committees, including cross-cutting committees, and will be expected to maintain a good understanding of the wider payments and digital assets risk landscape. You will be one of the main points of contact with the risk team, gather insights from across PDA and PSR that will feed into the team’s view of developments and priorities across sectors, and you will distil and presents insights to leadership teams\nWorking with a wide range of stakeholders, you will bring together insights across portfolios to identify and prioritise risks, including cross-cutting ones, assess the impact of our risk mitigations and maintain a coherent view of risks and opportunities across PDA/PSR\nThe ideal candidate will have expertise in at least one of the payments, payment systems or digital assets sectors. You will work closely with sector risk leads across a wide and complex risk landscape and will take responsibility for the management and identification of cross-cutting risks, monitoring and reporting activities in these areas\nTogether with the senior associates overseeing each sector, you will ensure risks are managed appropriately, have documented actions and controls in place, and are reported in accordance with existing governance. You will work with a wide range of stakeholders, often in situations without direct authority\nYou will be working with minimal supervision and presenting work in persuasive ways to senior audiences, conducting analysis on a wide set of risks affecting the payments and digital assets portfolios. You will be comfortable commissioning information, conducting your own research, synthesising large amounts of data, and presenting these in concise, compelling ways to a range of audiences\nYou will be expected to assess how our regulatory interventions impact the market and prepare analyses that show which risks and opportunities should be prioritised. You will analyse data, possess solid data analysis skills, and draft concisely and persuasively\nSkills required:\nMinimum:\nDemonstrable expertise in risk analysis and good understanding of the payments landscape\nDemonstrable experience of effective stakeholder management and building and sustaining strong, collaborative relationships, using clear and effective communication across multiple engagement channels\nDemonstrable knowledge of UK financial services regulation\nEssential:\nAbility to stay effective even when working in uncertainty, willing to learn and iterate to improve products\nSolid analytical skills to analyse large volumes of data and information and draw pertinent conclusions, through experience of using data analysis tools and AI capability\nExperience of developing and improving how risk is managed, including developing and implementing performance and impact assessment frameworks\nExperience working across teams and disciplines to deliver shared outcomes\nDemonstrable experience managing and engaging senior stakeholders, including at senior/executive level, both internally and externally, including by tailoring written messages to the audience\nAbility to work in a collaborative and inclusive ways that build support, balance priorities and contribute to wider organisational goals, while challenging appropriately\nSound judgement underpinned by data, evidence and insight to inform decisions and actions\nA growth mindset, with curiosity to learn, ability to handle unexpected changes and readiness to take on new responsibilities and adjust to shifting priorities\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.\nOur Values & Culture\nOur colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that’s free from discrimination and bias, celebrates difference, and supports colleagues to deliver at their best. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation - one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.\nIf you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition, your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support.\nWe welcome diverse working styles and aim to find flexible solutions that suit both the role and individual needs, including options like part-time and job sharing where applicable.\nDisability Confident: Our Hiring Approach \nWe’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. 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