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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.\nC&IR is responsible for enabling secure regulation at the FCA and PSR. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a high profile, newly created role, that will focus on cyber security, insider risk and physical access threats, in a co-ordinated way.\nYou will centralise our threat management efforts, ensuring a coordinated approach and bolstering capability around such areas as risks related to organised crime, espionage, physical access operations against the FCA and travel security. 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