Sanctions Supervisor in Financial Crime Market

Salary National ranging from £41,800 to £45,500 and London ranging from £46,000 to £50,000
- Are you ready to develop your career and specialism joining our team of supervisors in Financial Crime Market Intervention?
- The team/department
- Financial Crime Market Interventions provides the dedicated specialist resource and expertise to help the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) 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 four Financial Crime Specialist Supervision teams, a Sanctions Supervisory Team, a Risk, Data & Strategy Team 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 you will be doing
- As an 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 goals 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/Lead Associate
- What you will get from the role
- The opportunity to work on potentially high profile or complex casework and to support 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
- A chance input into our ways of working as we look to continually improve the way we supervise firms
- 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
- Experience of the financial crime and/or UK (United Kingdom) Sanctions legal and regulatory regime, gained through study or experience
- Experience of dealing with multiple tasks and managing competing work streams often under tight deadlines
- Essential
- 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
- The ability to quickly analyse and interpret a variety of data and information to execute effective actions to mitigate risk
- A team player, with a positive approach and outlook to their work
- The ability to work effectively with a variety of stakeholders, both external and within the FCA, provide effective challenge and find solutions to problems
- Confidence to make considered judgements and prompt assessments, to stand by their assessments and learn from experience
- A good knowledge of the structure of the financial services industry - i.e., key products and services and key processes
- Clear and well organised oral and written communication skills, particularly when communicating with firms
- 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