Financial Conduct Authority
Senior Financial Crime Market Interventions Associate
London
£53.8k – £71.7k/yr
Posted 2 days ago
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Senior Financial Crime Market Interventions Associate
Senior Financial Crime Market Interventions Associate
Job Title
Senior Financial Crime Market Interventions Associate
Location & Salary
- Division: Supervision, Policy & Competition (SPC)
- Department: Financial Crime Market Interventions (FCMI)
- Salary:
- Non-London locations (Edinburgh or Leeds): £53,800–£71,666
- London: £59,200–£78,800 (based on skills and experience)
- Grade: Senior Associate – Regulatory
Contact Details
- External Recruitment Contact: Steve Christopher (steve.christopher@fca.org.uk)
- Internal Recruitment Contact: Isabelle Groves (isabelle.groves@fca.org.uk)
- Application Process: Online portal only. No email or social media submissions accepted.
About The FCA & Team
We regulate financial services firms in the UK, ensuring fairness, growth, and effectiveness in financial markets. As part of our team, you’ll contribute to:
- Protecting consumers
- Driving economic growth
- Shaping the future of UK financial services
SPC & FCMI Overview
- Supervision, Policy & Competition (SPC) oversees firms, creates rules, and addresses market competition issues.
- Financial Crime Market Interventions (FCMI) provides specialist financial crime expertise to reduce risks of regulated firms being used for financial crime activities.
Role Focus
The Senior Associate will:
- Oversee compliance with the Money Laundering Regulations (MLR) for Annex 1 firms.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen systems, controls, and supervisory interventions.
- Conduct and deliver AML (Anti-Money Laundering) systems and controls assessments across multiple portfolios.
- Collaborate to enhance compliance frameworks and financial crime risk management.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct supervisory and intelligence work, assessing:
- Business models
- AML control frameworks
- Financial crime risk indicators
- Unregistered activity
- Consumer harm
- Analyse complex information (e.g., firm submissions, open-source data, Companies House data, internal intelligence, case materials) to identify risks and support evidence-based decision-making.
- Assess compliance with the Money Laundering Regulations, with a focus on:
- Business-wide risk assessments
- Customer risk assessments
- Customer Due Diligence (CDD)
- Ongoing monitoring
- Governance & training
- Support the identification and implementation of:
- Supervisory interventions
- Proactive programmes
- Portfolio/thematic work addressing financial crime risks and AML weaknesses.
- Produce signature-briefing documents, including:
- High-quality assessments
- Comprehensive recommendations
- Risk-driven rationale for senior stakeholders
- Build cross-functional relationships within the FCA, collaborating with:
- Supervision
- Intelligence
- Enforcement
- Policy teams
- Engage with firms as required:
- Handling information requests
- Conducting follow-up analysis
- Evaluating responses
- Develop team expertise, improve processes, and foster a collaborative team culture.
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Requirements
Minimum Skills
- Prior experience in financial crime risks, particularly AML, including:
- Understanding risk-based controls
- Ability to design, implement, or assess controls in a professional setting
- Experience in analysing complex data
- Ability to produce clear, evidence-based recommendations/decision-making.
Essential Qualification Criteria
- Excellent written communication skills to:
- Produce concise, high-quality outputs on technical or regulatory topics.
- Communicate to both senior leaders and non-technical audiences.
- Proven ability to:
- Manage multiple competing priorities.
- Deliver high-calibre work under tight deadlines.
- Experience in:
- A supervisory, regulatory, compliance, enforcement, intelligence, financial crime, or related environment.
- Strong understanding of AML regulations, particularly the Money Laundering Regulations, with:
- Practical professional experience applying these requirements.
- Ability to assess:
- Business models
- Ownership structures
- Due diligence processes
- Transaction flows for risk identification and analysis.
- Track record of contributing to cross-functional initiatives and managing a variety of work or projects.
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Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Hybrid work model:
- Minimum of 40% in-office monthly (expected at 50% for leadership, increasing to 60% for Directors and Executive Directors as of September).
- Pension:
- Non-contributory scheme (8–12% dependent on age).
- Life assurance equivalent to eight times salary.
- Healthcare & support:
- Private healthcare via Bupa.
- Income protection.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
- Voluntary contribution:
- 35 hours paid leave per year for voluntary work.
- Flexible benefits tailored to lifestyle.
Full lists of benefits and process information available on the FCA’s benefits page.
Cultural Values & Inclusion
- Foundation of the team: Our diverse colleagues drive us to deliver better regulation, innovation, and decision-making.
- Committed to fostering diverse & inclusive culture, free from discrimination and bias.
- Support tailored accommodations through recruiters if needed.
- Ideally suited to flexible working models (e.g., part-time, job share).
Disability Confident Employer
The FCA priorities applicants with disabilities who meet minimum standards, even in highly competitive pools. Adequate security clearance (SC level) is required.
Important Dates & Timelines
- Job adverts close: 19th July 2026 – Midnight.
- CV reviews & shortlisting: 21st July 2026.
- Case study assessment & interviews: 28th July 2026.
- Applicants must notify the recruiter during screening if they’ll be unavailable during these dates.
Security Clearance: Candidates must already hold or be willing/able to obtain and maintain an SC-level clearance.
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Skills
Financial Crime Risks
Anti-Money Laundering
Data Analysis
Written Communication
Project Management
Regulatory Compliance
Risk Assessment
Business Models
Due Diligence
Governance
Team Collaboration
Stakeholder Engagement
Supervisory Work
Intelligence Analysis
Consumer Protection
Financial Services
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