Business Implementation Associate

Business Implementation Senior Associate

Division – Authorisations

Salary - National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £52,400 to £65,500 and London £57,700 to £72,000 per annum (Salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.

Department/Team

The Authorisations Division ensures​​​​ the ​firms and individuals who apply to us to be authorised or approved understand how we test they will comply with our regulation. We use authorisation to help deliver our public offer and as a tool to protect consumers from the harm that can be caused by bad conduct in the financial services industry. The division is also home to 2 of our most important external services – our Supervision Hub and the Financial Services Register.

The Register and Authorisations services department is currently at the forefront of two FCA priorities, seeking to strengthen our operational and regulatory excellence: enhancing the application journey with new forms at the gateway and improving our Financial Services Register products.

The Register Authorisations Services department is seeking to recruit a highly collaborative and motivated individual skilled in stakeholder management to help facilitate the successful roll-out and embedding of these exciting transformation projects.

What will you be doing?

• Engage across the FCA to scope and determine impact of changes, supporting effective business implementation

• Provide strategic oversight of the adoption and embedding of business-led change and other changes against Authorisations’ business plan and objectives, as well as the FCA strategy

• Deeply understand the purpose and functionality of the Register and forms to support implementation of complex requirements and help identify/escalate challenges

• Lead a group of Business Implementation Managers (BIMs) to identify challenges and coordinate business-led change across the division

• Support the Register and Gateway projects directly, as well as ensuring coordination across business-led change, projects in the Change portfolio and other initiatives to enable thoughtful implementation

• Supporting the Register Authorisations Services department leadership team to engage the department to improve our local ways of working and improving staff engagement & morale

What will you get from the role?

• The opportunity to help deliver high-profile public commitments

• The opportunity to work with colleagues who are at the ‘gateway’ of the FCA and develop a sound understanding of how the authorisation process works

• The chance to play a key role in our work to revolutionise the Register and the way we use it to engage with consumers and firms

• The opportunity to develop and share your experience and expertise, while working in a team passionate about high-quality delivery and improving the user experience

• Exposure to a wide range of stakeholders, and the ability to grow your network

Which skills are required?

We are a Disability Confident Employer; therefore, disabled people or individuals with long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. (To learn more about the Disability Confident Scheme Click Here)

Minimum

• Prior experience in the delivery of change management on projects and experience in programme management, understanding the links between projects

• Prior experience in the delivery of stakeholder management, including experience with liaising with senior stakeholders

• Prior experience and a strong understanding of regulation and or experience working in a regulatory area

Essential

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, both writing and face-to-face

• Skilled at facilitation and an ability to challenge and work constructively with SMEs from across the business to deliver outcomes, drawing on strong knowledge and understanding of regulatory processes and requirements

• Organised and can plan own workload to meet deadlines and hold others to account

• Excellent attention to detail

• Ability to translate business requirements into functional outcomes, in a strong understanding of processes and business architecture, particularly the authorisations process

• Ability to matrix manage large multi-disciplinary teams across multiple workstreams

• Possession of strong business acumen, able to pick up quickly the content and business knowledge required

• Innovative thinker, challenging existing processes and seeking new solutions to business problems

Our Values & Diversity

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and our ambition is to cultivate a culture 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.

Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.

Did you know? 50% of our Executive Committee were the first in their family to attend university.

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

Benefits of working at the FCA

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays

• Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time)

• 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 also have a competitive flexible benefits scheme which gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle.

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 can explore what might work best for both sides.

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Application Support

We are dedicated to removing barriers and ensuring our application process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible.

If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition requiring changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter using the details below and they will be happy to discuss this further with you.

Useful Information and Timeline

• This role is graded as Senior Associate

• Advert Closing Date: 18th May (Midnight)

• CV Review/Shortlist: 20th May

• First Round Case Study Assessment: W/C 2nd June

• Competency Based Interview: W/C 9th June

Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time. 

Got a question?

If you are interested in learning more about the role, please contact: Riley Fox at [email protected]

Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via email will not be accepted.