Role Responsibilities

• Shape the design and lead the delivery of the FCA’s supervisory strategy for the CT, helping improve market transparency, integrity, and confidence across UK financial markets
• Collaborate closely with colleagues across Authorisations, Legal, Trading Policy, Market Oversight, and Trading Venue Supervision, building effective partnerships to deliver effective and coordinated regulatory outcomes
• Lead complex supervisory issues and cases, applying your regulatory knowledge and experience to make informed judgements, provide recommendations, and address emerging risks
• Support, guide, and develop team members while helping oversee resources, creating an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing environment
• Leverage market data, insights, and analytics to enhance supervision, build data analytics skills, and inform decision-making, improving outcomes for market participants, investors, and consumers across the UK

Skills Required

Minimum:

• Prior experience of financial services and financial regulation
• Prior experience of representing an organisation externally in a leadership role on technically demanding issues

Essential:

• Thorough understanding of the UK regulatory framework, particularly relating to financial markets, transparency, and market data
• Ability to quickly acquire, source, manipulate, and analyse data to inform decision-making
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate complex issues and make evidence-based judgements, including where information may be incomplete
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to explain complex issues clearly and succinctly to a range of audiences, including senior stakeholders
• Clear commitment to collaborative working, with the ability to positively challenge and influence others while providing support and guidance to colleagues

Benefits

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Colleagues 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.
• Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary
• Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance
• 35 hours of paid volunteering annually
• A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle

For a full list of our benefits and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page.

Our Values and Culture

Our 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.

If you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition, your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support.

We 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.

Disability Confident: Our Hiring Approach

We’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. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.

Useful Information and Timelines

Timeline:

• Job advert close: Sunday 27th September at Midnight
• CV Review/Shortlist: w/c 28th September 2026
• 1st stage Interviews: w/c 5th and 12th October 2026
• 2nd stage Interviews: w/c 19th and 26th October 2026

Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.