Payments Supervision Specialist - London, United Kingdom - Financial Conduct Authority

Financial Conduct Authority
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London, United Kingdom

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Salary:
London up to £95,000 per annum and National up to £85,000 - _Salary offered will be based on skills and experience_

Are you passionate about tackling financial crime? Are you intrigued by the chance to tackle risks in e-money or payments? Do you want to be part of a team forging our approach to the fast-growing payments sector?

If the answer to any one of these is yes, and if you want to make a difference in any of these areas as part a team focused on reducing harm, raising standards, and tackling illicit activity in this exciting and fast-moving sector, then we'd love to hear from you

The Market Interventions - Payments (MIP) Department

MIP supervises over 1300 authorised e-money institutions and payment services providers, which do not hold banking authorisation.

We do a range of proactive and reactive work responding to issues and risks in our population of firms to avoid or reduce harm to consumers and market integrity and promote competition.

What you will be doing

The individual will report to the Head of Market Interventions - Payments, and will be responsible for:
  • Supporting the department by providing technical input to a range of different pieces of work, including individual firm cases, multi
  • firm projects, ad
  • hoc queries, and industry initiatives
  • Representing payments supervision in cross
  • FCA or industry forums
  • Considering and advising the department's management team on how industry developments, as well as policy developments, may impact how we supervise firms, whilst contributing to the development of the portfolio strategy for payments
  • Taking charge for the department on specific supervisory themes (such as safeguarding, financial crime); being the first point of contact for related queries, and owning the relationship with relevant internal stakeholders
  • Supporting the department in liaising with external stakeholders such as the Payments System Regulator, Bank of England, HM Treasury, or payments trade bodies
  • Developing or arranging training on technical topics for the department, and sharing knowledge with other internal teams through 'teach
  • ins' and other means
  • You will be required to grow and enhance the teams knowledge and capabilities in your specialism
What will you get from the role?- Drive interesting, stimulating and challenging work that is integral to how we protect consumers and market integrity in the payments sector- Exposure to the leadership of Payments and the broader FCA as you craft your ideas and work into practical actions and strategies- Fascinating interactions with industry participants and trade bodies, as well as other regulatory and law enforcement partners- Unique insight into how regulation works in a fast pace and changing environment


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:

  • 28 days holiday per year
  • Private healthcare with Bupa
  • A non-contributory 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 judgement based decision making, with a focus on prudential, financial crime or operational resilience risk management
  • Experience in leadership, coaching and mentoring less experienced team members
Essential- Very strong analytical capability with a proven ability to quickly and clearly draw out key implications from a broad and varied range of information- Excellent written and oral communication skills The credibility to effectively engage with FCA senior management and key stakeholders such as the Payments Systems Regulator, the Bank of England and His Majesty's Treasury- The ability to work with a high degree of autonomy- A risk-based approach to decision making, including the ability to reach sound and timely judgements which can be justified in a concise and effective manner- Ability to work with centralised and local data sources to produce and present reports and insight

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 three-year strategy can be found

here.

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