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Policy Lead - Modernising Payments Regulation

External
fca logoFca · London, UK
Part-timeHybrid3w ago
Stakeholder Management
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Responsibilities

  • Support the Payment Policy Manager in maintaining and managing a friendly, supportive, and high performing policy team, with direct line-management responsibilities for around five Associates and Senior Associates
  • Managing key policy workstreams within our Modernising Payments Regulation programme, working closely with colleagues in Supervision, Authorisation, Legal, Communications and in other policy teams
  • Establishing and maintaining effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
  • Work very closely with others in the regulatory family including the Treasury and Payments Systems Regulator (PSR), as well as other external stakeholders
  • Skills required:
  • Minimum:
  • Prior experience of policy making in FCA, other financial services regulators or government
  • An understanding of the UK payments ecosystem and regulatory framework
  • Prior experience of managing complex projects, marshalling input from numerous teams, and manging challenging stakeholder relations
  • Essential:
  • An ability to consider complex information and to drive the development and delivery of policy
  • Excellent collaboration skills needed to work with many other areas
  • Excellent organisational skills with a capability to manage a variety of priorities and issues
  • High standard of problem solving and strategic thinking with sound judgement
  • Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills with a clear ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels both internally and externally
  • Experience of influencing senior stakeholders and navigating governance to deliver policy solutions
  • Able to prepare and deliver complex, strategic written technical communications
  • Willingness to learn and develop, taking on new responsibilities and adopt a flexible and pragmatic approach to your work

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bank holidaysHybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation of 50% for senior leaders). Changing from September to a minimum of 50% in the office each month (expectation of 60% for Directors and Executive Directors)Non-contributory pension (8-12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salaryPrivate healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance35 hours of paid volunteering annuallyA flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyleFor a full list of our benefits, and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page .Our Values & CultureIf you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition, your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support.We welcome diverse working styles and aim to find flexible solutions that suit both the role and individual needs, including options like part-time and job sharing where applicable.Disability Confident: Our Hiring ApproachUseful IHealth insuranceVision insurancePaid time offFlexible schedule

Additional Information

Job title: Policy Lead - Modernising Payments Regulation Division: Supervision, Policy & Competition Department: Payments & Digital Assets Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £60,700 to £73,000 and London from £66,600 to £80,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience) This role is graded as: Lead Associate - Regulatory Your Internal recruitment contact is Louis Van de Burg via Louis.VanDenBurg@fca.org.uk Your external recruitment contact is Tahir Khan via tahir.khan1@fca.org.uk. Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted. About the FCA and team We regulate financial services firms in the UK, to keep financial markets fair, thriving and effective. By joining us, you'll play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance services. SPC oversees firms and individuals (supervision), creates and reviews the rules by which they operate (policy) and identifies and remedies ineffective competition in markets (competition). Sitting in the Payments and Digital Assets directorate, the Policy department develops policy to address the challenges and opportunities the FCA identifies in payment, crypto, open banking and open finance sectors.

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