Senior Trading Policy Associate

7 months ago

London, United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority Full time

Salary: National ranging from £49,700 to £65,000 and London £53,300 to £72,000 per annum - _Salary offered will be based on skills and experience_
- Are you interested in joining a team that will help shape and deliver the future of wholesale financial markets in the UK?_

The team/department

The Market Intervention - Trading Venues department is at the heart of the FCA strategy to seek to ensure that UK market infrastructures are resilient, transparent and operate in a fair and orderly way. The department sits in the Infrastructure & Exchanges directorate. It is responsible, among other things, for supervising trading venues and for developing the policy that applies to them and to the investment firms dealing on those venues or over the counter. We develop smart and early policy interventions to address emerging risks we see in the market and to influence global and UK policy.

The Trading Policy team is responsible for shaping and implementing the policy for trading venues - such as investment exchanges - and for firms dealing in wholesale markets like broker-dealers, proprietary trading firms and commodity derivatives trading firms. We cover a broad range of issues such as the organisational and transparency requirements of trading venues, algorithmic and high frequency trading, commodity derivatives and market data.

We do this in a number of ways:
- Leading the development of domestic rules and international standards for trading venues and trading firms- Working with HM Treasury and the Bank of England on the broader UK policy on market infrastructures- Providing ongoing policy support to FCA teams supervising trading venues and trading firm- Identifying and mitigating future areas of risk in the trading and conduct landscape- We place a high priority on open and collaborative working, both with our internal stakeholders (International, Legal, Secondary Markets Oversight, Competition) and externally with other markets authorities.

What you will be doing

The team is responsible for delivering the Wholesale Markets Review (WMR), the review of UK wholesale financial markets we have been conducting with the Treasury. The WMR has a broad scope. It includes transparency in equity, bonds and derivatives markets, market data and data consolidation and commodity derivatives.

As a Senior Associate you will:
- Horizon scan the relevant markets to identify issues and risks to our objectives- Extract, review and interpret quantitative information to support policy development- Develop policy reforms end to end- Draft consultation documents and public statements- Work with internal and external stakeholders, especially our newly formed secondary markets advisory committee to help support and deliver our policy reforms- Provide policy advice, also in the form of policy papers and briefs, to internal stakeholders

The portfolio of the team- Policy on Recognised Investment Exchanges, multilateral trading facilities and organised trading facilities- Policy on financial markets infrastructure Sandboxes, such as the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (PISCES) Sandbox- Implementation of the government’s Smarter Regulatory Framework reforms- Policy on data reporting service providers (DRSPs) and market data- Policy on trading mandates- Policy on commodity derivatives

What will you get from the role?

You will make your contribution to delivering our ambitious objective of improving UK secondary markets. You will represent FCA externally and you and your outputs will have a high exposure across the FCA and outside.

You will also develop in-depth expertise on the functioning of wholesale financial markets and their regulation.

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’ll have

Minimum- Experience working in financial services, financial regulation or policy making- Experience of representing an organisation externally on technically demanding issues (for example, making written and oral representations to stakeholders, providing consultation responses or similar, presentation and participation in working groups, etc.)

Essential- A proven unde

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