Financial Crime Policy Associate

Salary: National from £41,800 to £45,700 and London from £46,000 to £50,000 depending on skills and experience

Are you interested in work which is challenging, high impact and makes a real difference to people’s lives?

The team/department

This role offers the chance to raise standards in the whole market. Your work will touch almost every UK resident’s daily life. The team plays a critical role in helping ensure the Directorate delivers on its strategic priorities by developing and advising on policy that sets high standards reducing and preventing serious harm from financial crime, with a focus on anti-money laundering controls.

What you will be doing
- Evaluate and interpret existing and proposed policy developments in the area of Financial Crime, mainly Anti Money-Laundering, Counter Terrorism Finance and Proliferation Financing
- Work with the team and wider stakeholders to understand the impact of legal, regulatory, national and international laws, rules and approaches
- Identify and escalate risks to the team’s delivery, consumers and/or markets
- Deliver the team and department’s strategy, helping with priority outcomes and measures of success
- Develop and maintain key external and internal stakeholder relationships to deliver outcomes in line with our strategic priorities
- Provide high quality policy advice and support to supervisors, firms, consumers and trade and consumer bodies

What you will get from the role
- As a key member of the team, you will contribute to setting priorities and working on complex and high-profile projects that impact the everyday financial lives of UK consumers
- You will get to work on high priority projects to help to ensure the team delivers against the FCA’s strategy and business plan commitments and ultimately delivers against the core objectives
- You will have the opportunity to learn from experts about anti-money laundering, counter terrorist financing and counter proliferation financing
- You will be able to engage with stakeholders from right across the FCA as well as key national and international stakeholders

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
- Regulatory experience relevant to Anti Money Laundering or Counter Terrorist Financing
- Experience of delivering complex work
- Experience of solving problems and presenting analysis and recommendations to stakeholders

Essential
- Evidence of analysing large amounts of complex information, identifying the key themes, drawing logical conclusions and developing and implementing strategies. Experience of identifying key risks to consumers and/or markets
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to support the team to distil complex issues into succinct messages; present confidently and credibly to a variety of internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to work on your own, use sound judgement and escalate issues appropriately
- Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills; able to work effectively as part of a team and build and maintain relationships staff at all levels
- A curious and inquisitive mindset, and an ambition to deliver in the public interest
- Willingness to look outside your own role and identify opportunities to improve the way the department conducts its work
- Inclusive approach - respects the diversity of cultural, social and academic backgrounds found in the organisation and able to adapt personal style to effectively engage individuals from a wide-range of backgrounds.

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,