Payments Supervision Specialist

7 days ago


Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Regulatory Expert to join our Market Interventions - Payments (MIP) Department at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). As a key member of our team, you will play a critical role in ensuring the integrity of the payments sector and protecting consumers from financial harm.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide deep subject matter expertise on topics and issues relating to the payments industry, payments regulation, and supervision of payments firms, including financial resilience, wind-down planning, safeguarding of customer funds, financial crime, and the protection of vulnerable customers.
  • Support and assist the department by providing technical input to a range of different pieces of work, including firm cases, multi-firm projects, ad-hoc queries, and industry initiatives and representing payments supervision in cross-FCA or industry forums.
  • Consider and advise 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.
  • Take 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.
  • Support the department in liaising with external stakeholders such as the Payments System Regulator, Bank of England, HM Treasury, or payments trade bodies.
  • Develop or arrange training on technical topics for the department, and sharing knowledge with other internal teams through 'teach-ins' and other means; at times you will be required to grow and enhance the team's knowledge and capabilities in your specialism.
What You'll 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-paced and changing environment.
Our Benefits
  • 28 days holiday per year.
  • Private healthcare with Bupa.
  • A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of your basic salary each month.
  • Life assurance of eight times your basic salary.
  • Income protection.
Flexible Working

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want but we won't judge you for asking.

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.

The FCA's Values & Diversity

Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.

The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our Regulatory Expert role.



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