Risk Professional - London, United Kingdom - Financial Conduct Authority

Financial Conduct Authority

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Salary:
National ranging from £55,600 to £81,000 and London from £59,800 to £90,000

Are you interested in work which is challenging, high impact and makes a real difference to people's lives?_

The team/department

The Financial Resilience Department's mission is to provide high quality financial analysis expertise across the firms we prudentially regulate, and to support the FCA more broadly, in meeting its objectives.

The Financial Resilience Department supports the FCA in ensuring that we avoid and minimise harm arising from the disorderly wind down of firms, particularly the 49,000 firms the FCA prudentially regulates.

The department undertakes, and supports the rest of the FCA in undertaking, high quality financial and risk analysis of the full spectrum of FCA prudentially regulated firms.

This includes assessing the financial resilience of firms, both for large firms and on a portfolio basis, conducting thematic assessments of risk management practices, monitoring and responding to issues as they arise.

What you will be doing (the role)
- leading financial resilience assessments of firms with diverse business models across the wholesale and retail financial services sectors
- communicating the results of our work to both internal and external senior stakeholder
- assessing the appropriate regulatory tool (or tools) to ensure firms meet appropriate standards of financial resilience
- providing coaching, oversight and support to associates in the department
- supporting front-line supervisors
- role modelling Judgement, Engagement, Delivery and Self-Management and the FCA values

What you will get from the role

Working in the Financial Resilience Department, you will have a rare opportunity to understand and shape the workings of the financial sector at a time of considerable change
You will enjoy a unique aerial view of the financial services industry, with the opportunity to do meaningful work that makes a real difference
You will have the opportunity to work with and influence a wide range of industry professionals, both internally and externally to the FCA we place great value on your learning and we offer worldclass development opportunities which will assist you in achieving your career aspirations

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle.

You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
Private healthcare with Bupa
A noncontributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)
Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
Income protection
We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.
The skills and experience you will have
Minimum
We are_

- who best _
- meet the _
- minimum_
- criteria for a role._
- identifying, quantifying, measuring, reporting and mitigating Risk in a financial services business
- working with or within a financial regulatory framework including direct experience with the constraints introduced by the regulatory framework
- presenting issues and judgements on critical matters to senior stakeholders both within and external to an organisation

Essential
- dealing with complex prudential issues
- leading the diagnosis and remediation of prudential risks in firms so that the potential for harm is reduced
- leading projects to time and quality
- being a team player who demonstrates an inclusive approach and the impact and influence to generate shared goals for the Department

About the FCA
The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our threeyear strategy can be found

- here.

The FCA's Values & Diversity

Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. 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.
Flexible working

Multi-location

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