Open Banking Specialist - 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:
London up to £90,000 and National up to £80,000 per annum

Are you enthusiastic about payments and keen to be involved in designing and implementing the open banking regime for the future?

The role sits within the Payments & Digital Assets Policy Department, within a team dedicated to open banking and will be hugely important to the development of open banking within the UK.

The team sits alongside a payments policy team and crypto policy teams.

What you will be doing

This role will give you the opportunity to provide technical input to drive forward lasting and impactful to the UK open banking ecosystem.

This is a hugely exciting time when there are real opportunities to shape the payments market in the UK.

The role includes:

Providing technical advice on policy projects, working with others to develop appropriate solutions to complex and technical issues
Establishing and maintaining effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
Supporting a high performing team through assisting with specific policy issues, supporting colleagues through training, both formal and informal, coaching and mentoring.

What will you get from the role?

This role is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of policy in the FCA in an evolving area of policy.

The role is best suited to those who are interested in working in a fast-paced, flexible environment, and able to build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.

The role is ideal for someone looking to develop their team and project management skills.

It will also give you a chance to develop in-depth knowledge of the systems and regulations that underlie payments and account data sharing.

This will pave the way to open finance in the future and means Open Banking is an area that attracts strong interest from forward thinkers across the payments and banking sectors.

Our 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:

28 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 haveMinimum

Experience of a legal, compliance or regulatory function at a regulated financial service provider, regulatory consultancy service or policymaking in government
Experience of either the payments or open banking sectors

Essential

An ability to consider complex information and relevant data and to drive the development and delivery of policy
Excellent collaboration skills needed to work with other areas and organisations
Excellent organisational skills with a capability to manage a variety of priorities and issues
High standard of problem solving and strategic thinking with sound judgement.
A selfsustaining thinker with an inquisitive mindset and a riskbased approach to making judgements
Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills with a clear ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels
Able to prepare and deliver complex, strategic written technical communications and deliver sensitive messages
Willingness to learn and develop, taking on new responsibilities and adopting a flexible and pragmatic approach to your work

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. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found here.

The FCA's Values & Diversity

Flexible Working

Multilocation

Useful Information

Applications for this role close on 6th February 2024

These roles are graded as Technical Specialist - Regulatory

There are x2 openings - x1 permanent and x1 6-months interim cover

Got a question?

If you are external interested learning more about the role, please contact Chhavi Bartaria at

If you are internal interested learning more about the role, please contact Kezia Downie at

What to expect from our assessment and selection process

The assessment process consists of an initial screening call with our sourcer. If successful, you will be invited to attend a first stage competency-based interview. The final stage will include a psychometric assessment, followed by a second and final interview.

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