Senior Payments Firm Supervisor

6 months ago


London, United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority Full time

Salary: London £56,400 to £66,000 and National ranging from £51,200 to £61,000 per annum - Salary offered will be based on skills and experience

Are you interested in work, which is dynamic, high impact and makes a real difference to people’s lives? Are you passionate about fighting financial crime? Are you intrigued by the chance to tackle consumer harm in payments and e-money? If the answer to these is yes, and you want to make a difference by working in a team focused on reducing consumer harm, raising standards, and countering illicit activity in this exciting and fast-moving sector, then we’d love to hear from you

The Department

The Market Interventions - Payments Department is responsible for supervising over 1250 non-bank payment service providers, and for providing specialist payments support and insight across the FCA.

You will be involved in a diverse range of issues including consumer harm, prudential weakness, and financial crime. We also work closely with external stakeholders such as The Bank of England to deliver a co-ordinated supervisory approach.

We are currently recruiting for a Payments Firm Supervisors to work in our Fixed Firm supervision team. This team is responsible for supervising some of the largest and highest profile firms in the payments sector.

What you will be doing

We are looking for a talented, motivated and outcome focused individual to join the Market Interventions - Payments team in our new, diverse, and inclusive Payments and Digital Assets division.
- Engage directly with senior leaders (including C-suite and Board members) at some of the largest payment and Fintech firms in the UK to identify and mitigate potential harm to UK consumers and businesses
- Develop an in-depth understanding of firm’s business models, strategies, operational activities, prudential position, and control frameworks to identify potential problems before they create harm for UK consumers and businesses
- Exercise judgement to assess and prioritise risk, using your experience and analysis to develop and execute supervisory strategy
- Influence senior industry figures to achieve good outcomes for consumers in line with the FCA’s statutory objectives
- Write and present internal briefings to senior FCA leaders on the issues you identify and your strategy to addressing those challenges
- Convene and coordinate other teams across the FCA and other regulators as necessary to mitigate harm and deliver an agreed supervisory strategy

What you will get from the role
- Work on the front line of the protection of UK customers
- Develop skills and capabilities within a regulated environment, able to assess and quantify risk and develop appropriate strategies to stop the risk happening
- Learn and develop a deep understanding of relevant legislation and how it applies to regulated firms
- Play a key role in shaping and influencing strategy and policymaking in this sector
- Work within a dynamic and innovative team, contributing to wider divisional and FCA wide opportunities to move onward towards leadership roles

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your needs. 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
- Experience of delivering projects and strategies
- Experience of deducing information, making risk-based judgements, and presenting key issues and recommendations
- Proven experience building and managing relationships with stakeholders at all levels, including senior colleagues

Essential
- Experience of successful teamwork and working with others
- Strong analytical capability with proven ability to reach sound judgements quickly and clearly from a broad and varied range of information
- Proven ability to balance and manage conflicting priorities and move forward in a fast-paced environment
- Curiosity and motivation to continually learn about and investigate issues within the firms and industry we supervise
- Willingness to learn and develop yourself and others, taking on new responsibilities and adopting a flexible and pragmatic approach to your work
- Experience of successful teamwork. You will work with others to deliver outcomes and achieve tasks and you will proact



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