Lead Associate in Digital Assets Supervision - London, United Kingdom - Financial Conduct Authority

Financial Conduct Authority

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Salary:
London up to £72,000 per annum and National up to £66,000

Are you looking for the chance to work at the heart of the fast-moving world of crypto, and to bring your skills and experience to bear on tackling the use of crypto to enable financial crime?

What you will be doing

We are recruiting for two Lead Associate roles in our Digital Assets supervision department - one to work on our Registered population of crypto firms, and the other for our work to tackle Unregistered business, scams, and fraud.

Our Registered team are responsible for supervising firms' compliance with the Money Laundering Regulations (MLRs).

The team identify, manage, and mitigate risks of potential harm arising in firms, including rapidly intervening where firms are at risk of being used as conduits for illegal activity, or pose a harm to consumers or market integrity.

Our Unregistered team are responsible for tackling firms that are operating illegally, having not registered under the MLRs. The team identify and work with firms to stop their illegal activity.

The team also work closely with law enforcement partners to tackle the use of unregistered crypto businesses to commit fraud or to launder the proceeds of serious organised crime.

As a Lead Associate in either team, you will play a key role in driving the team's performance, including:

Line managing colleagues, including actively managing performance and talent as necessary
Proactively planning, prioritising, and allocating supervisory work across the team,
Assessing cases of varying complexity, and making confident, consistent, and timely regulatory judgements
Formulating strategies to deal with complex or novel issues arising domestically or internationally
Delivering through others, by coaching colleagues in technical knowledge, case strategies, and firm interactions
Robustly quality assuring the judgements and casework of colleagues
Developing and maintaining a wide network across the FCA and with external stakeholders, including Law Enforcement Agencies and crosssystem partners
Helping drive an increasingly proactive and dataled approach to our work

What will you get from the role?

This is a chance to work at the heart of the innovative and fast-moving world of crypto, which straddles technology, finance and brings both tantalising opportunities and significant risks.

Help shape the UK regulatory environment for crypto at a key moment in the sector's journey into mainstream adoption
Play a significant part in tackling financial crime
Gain experience across a broad range of business models trying to operate in a nascent industry
Deploy your expertise and creativity to deliver significant realworld impact
Hone your leadership skills, from managing people to helping set and deliver the strategy and vision

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

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

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

25 days holiday per year
Private healthcare with Bupa
A noncontributory Pension of at least 8% of your basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age up to 12% a month once you reach the age of 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

Experience of leading and delivering through others
Experience making sound regulatory or investigatory judgements

Essential

The ability to consider a wide range of disparate and complex information and synthesise and articulate them into sound judgements and coherent strategies,
Experience of working collaboratively, achieving success with internal and external partners
Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to deliver complex information clearly, sensitively, and with authority
Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities, and navigate through spells of uncertainty and ambiguity
A willingness to learn and develop, with an appetite for taking on new responsibilities and a flexible and pragmatic approach to your work
You are likely to have a strong understanding of one of:
The Digital Assets industry, including business models and products, or
Financial crime typologies and risks, and how to mitigate these, or
How the FCA supervise firms (Registered team) or how the FCA or partners investigate criminal