Financial Conduct Authority
Primary Markets Supervisor
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Primary Markets Supervisor
Primary Markets Supervisor
Division: Enforcement & Market Oversight
Department: Primary Market Oversight
Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £53,800 to £70,500; London £59,200 to £77,000 Graded as: Senior Associate - Regulatory
Applications: Submit via our online portal only (contact: Riley via riley.fox@fca.org.uk)
About The FCA And Team
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulates UK financial services firms, ensuring fair, effective, and growing markets. Your role would contribute to protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK financial services.
The Market Oversight Directorate supervises UK primary and secondary markets across listing, prospectus and market abuse regimes, promoting trusted, efficient markets. Its four departments include:
- Listing
- Primary Market Oversight
- Secondary Market Oversight
- Market Oversight Data & Intelligence
Within this structure, Primary Market Specialist Supervisors (PMO) oversee the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), Listing Rules, and Disclosure/Transparency Rules. They engage with issuers, sponsors, Primary Information Providers (PIPs), and proxy advisers to:
- Provide guidance
- Supervise firms
- Monitor disclosures
- Investigate breaches
The Primary Market Specialist Supervision (PMSS) team focuses on critical regulatory engagement:
- Primary markets activity oversight (MAR focus)
- Sponsor and PIP regulatory supervision
- Evaluating disclosures
- Managing risks to investor clarity and efficiency.
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Role Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain relationships with sponsor firms/PIPs via regular communications.
- Analysing firms, understanding their systems, operations, and controls.
- Resolving technical regulatory issues requiring complex analysis.
- Planning, coordinating, and executing desk-based or on-site reviews of firm compliance.
- Reviewing sponsor/PIP applications to assess eligibility for registration.
- Leading policy development and supporting FCA cross-departmental projects.
- Providing regulated firms with structured feedback and enforcing safeguards as needed.
Requirements
Minimum Skills
- Proven experience in primary markets, including compliance, investment banking, or regulatory supervision.
- Demonstrated ability to assess complex information and present clear written analysis.
- Experience managing a high-paced, varied workload with competing priorities.
Essential
- Strong written & oral communication skills for diverse stakeholder engagement.
- Project management from initiation to execution and ability to deliver results across a broad portfolio.
- Ability to apply independent judgment while deciding when to escalate matters real-time.
- Talent for risk/opportunity identification with full stakeholder impact awareness.
- Prior experience coordinating team-based projects or cross-team workloads.
- Collaborative and adaptable, with respect for FCA-wide cooperation.
- Negotiation acumen, credible influence, and flexible communication styles for sensitive discussions.
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Benefits
- 25 days’ annual leave including public holidays.
- Hybrid working model: 50%+ office time expected for senior roles (see upgrade timeline post-September; Directors aim for 60%+).
- Non-contributory life pension (8–12% depending on age) + life assurance (eight-times salary).
- Bupa private healthcare, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme.
- 35 hours of paid volunteering annually.
- Customised flexible benefits designed to enhance work-life balance.
Working at FCA
Our success as a regulator depends on our people. We cultivate diverse and inclusive cultures, fostering creativity, innovation, and bold decision-making. Our diversity drives better regulation and action, strengthening our outcomes.
For colleagues requiring reasonable adjustments, our recruiters offer tailored support.
Disability Confident Commitment We are proud of our Disability Confident Employer status—applicants with disabilities meeting the minimum criteria advance past initial review if volumes necessitate. Proven core competence alignment takes priority in such instances.
Timeline
- Closing Date: 7th July at 11:59 PM
- CV Review: 9th July (shortlisting begins)
- Interviews: week commencing 20th July
- SC Cleared: Security Check (SC) Level vetting is required. If you lack previous vetting or plan to apply, ensure you research SC guidance promptly.
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