Authorisations Coordinator

Department: Compliance Location: Huddersfield

About the Role

This role goes beyond typical compliance admin duties. If you have experience in Financial Services Compliance and want to progress into a morecustomer-facing career path, this is an opportunity to grow and expand your expertise.

Role Overview

Internally, this position is known as the Authorisations Coordinator. Your role involves:

• Guiding member firms through the full FCA Direct Authorisation process
• Serving as their dedicated point of contact—from initial application to final approval
• Managing multiple applications simultaneously, ensuring deadlines are met with accuracy and high standards
• Building strong relationships while gathering, assessing, and compiling high-quality FCA submissions, with ongoing liaison with applicants and the FCA to keep processes on track
• Providing support and guidance on wider approval processes, including Variation of Permission and Senior Management applications

Responsibilities

Key Duties

You will:

• Assist member firms from start to finish of the Direct Authorisation process
• Act as the primary point of contact for each firm throughout the entire journey
• Manage concurrent applications, prioritising workloads to meet FCA deadlines
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with member firms, ensuring a deep understanding of the authorisation process
• Efficiently gather required submissions to compile compliant FCA applications
• Ensure submissions meet the highest standards of accuracy and thoroughness
• Liaise with applicants and FCA, aligning communication to meet all stakeholder expectations
• Support applicants in responding to FCA queries and feedback
• Keep real-time updates on application statuses
• Advise firms on variation applications, senior management submissions, and other FCA regulatory processes