Policy Payments Technical Specialist - London, United Kingdom - Payment Systems Regulator

Payment Systems Regulator

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About the PSR

How payments work affects the society we live in; the challenges faced by the vulnerable; how likely we are to fall victim to fraud; and how easily we can manage our money. Payments underpin our economy.
Behind these payments are several important payment systems. We rely on these systems to support markets, facilitate competition and drive innovation. This helps to deliver new products, find new ways to protect people from harm, and deliver services that give people and businesses more choice and control about how to pay and be paid.
We need the technology, the rules governing the use of these systems and the markets they support to all work well. This is where the PSR plays an important role we are the economic regulator of, and competition authority for, those systems. We protect people and businesses and promote competition and innovation in these systems and the markets that they support.
To achieve this, we have set out in

- our Strategy

four strategic priorities:

Ensure users have continued access to the payment services they rely on and support a choice of payment options
Ensure users are sufficiently protected when using the UK's payment systems
Promote competition between UK payment systems and the markets supported by them; protecting users where that competition is not sufficient
Act to ensure the interbank systems provide the infrastructure, rules and incentives that foster innovation and competition in payments
Our work is highprofile and fastmoving, within a dynamic environment. The work that you'll be involved in every day will be about helping us to deliver our strategy, helping us to be the regulator we want to be and helping the sector to deliver outcomes that protect the interests of people and businesses, and to promote competition and innovation in payments.
Our strategy sets out the need for us to continue adjusting our approach to ensure our work is directed where it will have the greatest impact.
We're_ ambitious about the future and looking for people who can help us to achieve our strategic priorities. _The PSR is an independent economic regulator led by Managing Director, Chris Hemsley. We are directly accountable to Parliament and funded by the payments industry. We work closely with other regulators involved in this sector, notably the Financial Conduct Authority, the Bank of England and the Competition and Markets Authority. Operationally we are an independent subsidiary of the Financial Conduct Authority._
Why join the PSR?
There are so many reasons why the PSR is a great place to work We have a great office, providing an excellent agile working environment, you will be joining a friendly team with an important role to play in the development of cuttingedge policy. So, if you are motivated by making a difference to how we all make payments, then we are for you.
In addition, we offer a wide variety of training and learning opportunities as well as access to the FCA Academy which has a wealth of resource available to us.
We are committed to building and sustaining a diverse and inclusive workplace so that we can represent the fullest range of views and ideas. Our commitment includes disability, ethnicity, LGBT and gender identity through to mental health and social mobility issues.
As an inclusive employer, we support a hybrid and flexible approach to working so when you apply, do please indicate any requests for flexibility.
About the Policy team
The Policy team is focused on delivering our strategy. You will have the opportunity to work on different aspects of policy development and analysis, project delivery and stakeholder management.

We're looking for an experienced payments specialist to join the Account-to-Account Retail Transactions team.

This team is focused on enabling the next phase of open banking, unlocking payments that better meet user needs, and ultimately intensifying competition for retail payments.

You will use your knowledge of payments systems to ensure both the strategic direction of our work and detailed policy thinking are sound.

As a payment systems specialist you will assist the PSR in fulfilling all aspects of its regulatory functions, in particular by:

Providing expert advice and industry insight on technical aspects of payments to support the PSR's wider programme of work
Using your knowledge to help shape the strategic direction of our policy projects
Collaboratively working with colleagues to develop policy proposals and take them through internal and external processes (e.g. writing documents, governance, consultation, assessing the impact of our policies)
Drafting briefings and papers to explain complex issues, often within tight timeframes
Presenting recommendations to the PSR Board and Executive Committee
Staying aware of developments in payments, identifying areas which could impact on the PSR's responsibilities and areas where the PSR should be acting, including to