Lead Associate

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority Full time

Lawyer (Lead Associate) - Interventions, Enforcement and Market Oversight

**Salary**: National pay range - from £65,000 to £78,000; London pay range - from £72,000 to £85,000.
- Are you interested in joining a team that is key to the prevention and reduction of harm to consumers and UK financial markets?_

The team/department

The Interventions team in Enforcement provides legal support to colleagues across the FCA, including Supervision, on the use of formal powers to prevent harm. We work closely with frontline business areas to devise strategy and advise on how best to address risks to consumers and markets.

The Interventions team sits in Retail 4, a department in the Retail and Regulatory Investigations Directorate of Enforcement. The team works closely with other teams across Enforcement, including those that triage serious misconduct for investigation and those teams that take action against firms for failing to meet the FCA’s Threshold Conditions.

What you will be doing (the role)

Lead Associates in the Interventions team provide legal advice to Supervision and Executive Decision Makers on a range of interventions across the full remit of the FCA’s work. Key responsibilities include:

- Progressing a portfolio of demanding interventions often with competing deadlines without close day to day oversight
- Advising on evidential sufficiency, identifying key risks and making judgements and recommendations
- Clear and effective communication, both in writing and in person
- Building and maintaining effective working relationships with colleagues in other areas at all levels within the FCA, including Executive Decision Makers, and with external bodies
- Overseeing the work of others including Associates where required and escalating issues as necessary
- Contributing to training, knowledge sharing and being a point of escalation on technical matters

What you will get from the role
- An opportunity to work on high-profile cases of public importance tackling the most serious financial services matters
- A challenging and varied portfolio of work that directly protects consumers and furthers the FCA’s objectives
- A chance to develop and enhance your legal abilities and knowledge through exposure to novel problems and the opportunity to use your legal professional skills in complex situations
- The opportunity to contribute towards the future shape of Supervisory strategy, including in areas such as the protection of consumers and digital assets
- Development of a more in-depth knowledge of a range of sectors, including relating to consumer finance, consumer investments, payments and digital assets

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 non-contributory 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
- Qualified lawyer, with a valid practising certificate issued by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for England and Wales (if a solicitor), or the General Council of the Bar for England and Wales (if a barrister) (or a similar internationally recognised qualification)
- Significant post qualification experience in any of the following areas: contentious financial services or other regulatory investigations or proceedings; financial markets; investigations involving serious fraud or other complex financial crime; complex litigation or disputes
- Experience of managing and progressing a challenging and varied caseload involving a range of legal processes

Essential
- Role-specific know-how, transferrable skills, elements of core skills and behaviours that are essential to the role, referring to our
- Capability Framework
as a source of information to help you design your criteria
- Ability to analyse complex evidence in order to form a view as to what action is warranted, what further evidence may be required/available and how it might be obtained
- Delivery at pace - ability to work at pace and under pressure to deliver a variety of competing workstreams and to prioritise effectively to deliver to agreed deadlines
- Strong communication skills in order to present the outcome of analysis clearly and effectively, orally and in writing
- Ability to exercise own judgement and defend those judgem

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