Senior Associate in Financial Crime Market

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority Full time

Background

Financial Crime Market Interventions provides the dedicated specialist resource and expertise to help the FCA meet its financial crime responsibilities, as contained in the FCA’s wider objective on integrity and in its public financial crime commitment.

The department is comprised of three Financial Crime Specialist Supervision teams, a Sanctions Supervisory Team, a Risk, Data & Strategy Team (RDS) and a Financial Crime Public Commitments Strategy & Delivery Team. Working together with others inside and outside the FCA, we deal with issues involving money laundering, financial sanctions and bribery and corruption.

The Financial Crime Market Interventions department does not cover market abuse or fraud.

What does this job involve?

As a Senior Associate, you will be responsible for delivering our proactive supervisory assessment programme and/or a portfolio of reactive casework, relating to sanctions and/or wider financial crime issues. These activities ensure that we deliver the objectives of the department. You will be expected to make appropriate judgements on regulatory actions following proactive or reactive assessments. You will work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to ensure that they are kept informed and engaged as appropriate.

You will report to a Financial Crime Market Interventions Manager.

What will I get from the role?
- An interesting and varied workload, with responsibility for leading and delivering the work assigned to you.
- The opportunity to lead potentially high profile or complex casework and to support and lead on financial crime systems and controls assessments of regulated firms across various financial sectors.
- The chance to work collaboratively with external agencies including other regulators and law enforcement.
- Internal collaboration with many areas including our firm supervisors, Intelligence Department and Enforcement.
- The chance to join a friendly and collaborative environment committed to thinking creatively about achieving good financial crime compliance outcomes for the FCA.
- The opportunity to use your judgement to make decisions at pace, stand by them, and learn from experience.
- A chance input into our ways of working as we look to continually improve the way we supervise firms.
- A chance to understand the changing ways in which firms and the industry operate, and the implications for how we carry out our work on financial crime.

About You
- _Any disabled applicant meeting the minimum criteria will automatically progress to interview stage, should they enter under the _
- Disability Confident scheme_
- . For more information on the FCA’s commitment to building a diverse and inclusive workforce, including guidance on drafting criteria, please refer to the _
- FCA’s Positive Action Framework._

Minimum
- A good understanding of the financial crime and/or UK sanctions legal and regulatory regime, gained through experience (for example a relevant supervision, compliance or sanctions related role within a regulatory body, law enforcement, financial services or consultancy firm).
- Strong oral and written communication skills. Able to communicate complex matters to senior internal and external stakeholders. Good report writing skills.
- Experience of dealing with a large number of tasks and managing competing work streams often under tight deadlines with mínimal supervision.

Essential
- In depth knowledge of the FCA’s regulatory and wider legal framework.
- A good understanding of the wider business, economic, and market environment and how this affects firms’ vulnerability to financial crime, including sanctions.
- Strong analytical skills to quickly analyse and interpret a variety of data and information to execute effective actions to mitigate risk. With the ability to identify where data is lacking and consider how to close the gap.
- A team player, with a positive approach and outlook to their work and the ability to deliver autonomously when necessary as well as motivating others and mentoring/coaching less experienced team members.
- The ability to work effectively with a variety of stakeholders, both external and within the FCA, provide effective challenge and find solutions to problems.
- Proven ability to lead challenging meetings with senior-level stakeholders with confidence and credibility.
- Confidence to make considered judgements and prompt decisions, to stand by their decisions and learn from experience.
- Detailed knowledge of the structure of the financial services industry - i.e., key products and services and key processes.
- Proven experience of undertaking assessments of firms’ financial crime, including sanctions, systems and controls (for example as part of 2nd or 3rd line testing at a regulated firm).

Desirable
- Experience of managing and delivering projects to plan, forecasting workloads and monitoring progress against plans.

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