Senior Policy Adviser – Pensions, Asset management and Funds Department
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Job title: Senior Policy Adviser – Pensions, Asset management and Funds Department.
Division: Supervision, Policy and Competition (SPC).
Department: Buy Side.
Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £52,400 to £68,500 and London from £57,700 to £75,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience).
Role grade: Senior Associate - Regulatory.
Recruitment contact: Cameron Nunn via Cameron.Nunn@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).
The Buy‑Side Directorate oversees asset management, funds, pensions and alternative investment firms, ensuring they operate with integrity, deliver fair value, and support healthy, competitive markets for consumers and the wider economy.
Role Responsibilities
* Developing and delivering robust, practical policy solutions by leveraging data and evidence, ensuring decisions are grounded in facts and drive meaningful outcomes for stakeholders.
* Proactively managing and leading complex policy projects by making sound judgments, prioritising effectively and balancing competing tasks and deadlines, enabling successful delivery of high‑impact initiatives.
* Identifying and managing a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders, building rapport and constructive relationships whilst adopting a collaborative and flexible approach, creating strong partnerships that amplify results.
* Distilling complex issues into clear, concise messages and presenting them confidently to a variety of audiences, both orally and in writing, ensuring stakeholders understand and act on critical insights.
* Working in a collaborative, supportive team, assisting your colleagues to achieve shared goals and adapting your approach to different situations, fostering a culture of collaboration and collective success.
* Engaging and supporting the workstreams of standard‑setting bodies and regulatory institutions such as the Bank of England, helping shape policies that influence the wider financial and regulatory landscape.
Minimum Skills Required
* Prior extensive policy experience (for example, at a regulator, firm or other relevant organisation).
* Prior experience coordinating and delivering cross‑cutting projects.
Essential Skills
* Outstanding organisational skills, including the ability to proactively manage complex policy projects by planning, prioritising and managing competing tasks and deadlines.
* Making good judgments and being open‑minded in approach.
* Strong stakeholder management skills, building rapport and constructive relationships, taking a collaborative and flexible approach.
* Excellent written and oral communication skills, including an ability to distil complex issues into succinct messages and presenting clearly and concisely to a variety of stakeholders.
* Management capabilities or leadership skills, including confidence in working with members of the senior leadership team and responding positively to challenge from others.
* Flexibility and the ability to deliver effective outcomes in an environment of dynamic change and complexity, by prioritising work and resources to successfully deliver at pace.
Benefits
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
* Hybrid model with up to 60% remote work.
* Non‑contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary.
* Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance.
* 35 hours of paid volunteering annually.
* A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle.
Timeline
* Job advert close: Sunday 30th November at midnight.
* CV Review/Shortlist: Tuesday 2nd December.
* Interviews: Start W/C 8th December.
* 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.
Our values and culture
Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that’s free from discrimination and bias, celebrates difference, and supports colleagues to deliver at their best. 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.
If 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 approach
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long‑term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.
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