Senior Risk Portfolio Associate

Responsibilities

• Work with a wide range of stakeholders, often in situations without direct authority. Skilled at guiding others and finding mutually acceptable solutions
• Analysing data, possessing solid data analysis skills and an ability to analyse payments and digital assets sector risks and design ways to measure the progress of our activities and controls against risk targets
• Skills required:
• Minimum:
• Demonstrable expertise in risk analysis and management of payments firms and/or digital assets (such as cryptocurrencies, tokenisation, stablecoins etc)
• Demonstrable experience of effective stakeholder management and building and sustaining strong, collaborative relationships, using clear and effective communication across multiple engagement channels
• Demonstrable knowledge of UK financial services regulation
• Essential:
• Solid analytical skills to analyse large volumes of data and information and draw pertinent conclusions. Experience of using data analysis tools and AI capability would be advantageous
• Experience of developing and improving how risk is managed, including how progress and success is measured against target risk scores.
• Experience working across teams and disciplines to deliver shared outcomes. This includes working with and supporting risk governance functions
• Demonstrable experience managing and engaging senior stakeholders, including at SLT and Executive level, both internally and externally, including by tailoring written messages to the audience for maximum impact. Ability to present advice in a clear, timely and focused way
• Ability to work in a collaborative and inclusive ways that build support, balance priorities and contribute to wider organisational goals, while challenging appropriately
• Sound judgement

Benefits

Additional Information

Job title: Senior Risk Portfolio Associate Division: Supervision, Policy & Competition Department: Cross-Cutting Delivery Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £53,800 to £62,000 and London £59,200 to £69,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience) This role is graded as: Senior Associate - Regulatory Your Internal recruitment contact is Louis Van Den 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 within the Payments & Digital Assets directorate (PDA), the Cross-Cutting Delivery Department supports payments and digital finance to develop sector wide strategies and support supervision and policy making through effective risk management, governance, operational efficiency and collaborative partnership with stakeholders. The Risk team within the Cross Cutting Delivery department is responsible for delivering the first line of defence of risk management for payments firms, digital assets and payment systems. We have an exciting opportunity for an expert in risk management of payments firms (electronic money institutions/payments institutions) and/or cryptocurrency, tokenised assets, stablecoin or other digital assets to join our team. As the new Department is taking shape, we expect the successful applicant will be working with and supporting other teams within the department as we establish the various functions and ways of working.

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