Job title: Title: Life Insurance Specialist
Division: Insurance
Department: Insurance Flexible Department
1. Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £72,100 to £110,000 and London from £79,300 to £120,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
2. This role is graded as: Technical Specialist
3. Your recruitment contact is Cameron Nunn via email. 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 Insurance Directorate oversees a wide range of regulated insurance firms, from small intermediaries to global insurers, and includes the Appointed Representatives Department, which was set up in 2022 to tackle risks linked to principal firms and their ARs.
Role responsibilities:
4. Lead strategic market analysis and risk assessment within the Insurance directorate, acting as the Portfolio Lead for Life Insurance and Chair of the Life Risk Group
5. Scope and plan multi-firm and project work to address market issues, ensuring efficient use of resources and clear project objectives
6. Deliver projects that provide rigorous, timely assessments and reach well-supported conclusions based on thorough analysis
7. Manage the final stages of projects, including stakeholder engagement, drafting reports, and presenting findings internally and externally
8. Design and implement mitigation strategies using appropriate regulatory tools to address risks identified through multi-firm work
9. Mentor team members and contribute to departmental leadership, helping to embed learnings and improve practices in laws and regulations across the FCA
Skills required:
Minimum:
10. In-depth experience in the life insurance sector. This experience may come from a commercial (re)insurer, adviser or broker) environment or from regulatory, consultancy or other relevant work etc.
11. Knowledge of the FCA regulatory framework as it applies to insurance
12. Experience of leading complex work/Experience of making judgements and presenting key issues and recommendations to senior stakeholders
Essential:
13. Experience in a role requiring excellent drafting skills
14. Ability to apply knowledge of the sector in a regulatory environment
15. Ability to draft and deliver complex, strategic written communications in line with the FCA tone
16. Coaching, mentoring and developing staff whilst delivering through others on complex issues and projects
17. Understanding of what makes markets work well for consumers and the impact of regulation on consumers, including unintended outcomes
18. Extensive stakeholder management experience and having confidence in managing senior stakeholders, both internal and external
19. Ability to respond rapidly to a changing environment with changing priorities, with the ability to plan, oversee and drive delivery of complex projects
20. Qualified actuary or equivalent, or progressing towards the qualification
Benefits:
21. 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
22. Hybrid model with up to 60% remote work
23. Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary
24. Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance
25. 35 hours of paid volunteering annually
26. A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle
For a full list of our benefits, and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page.
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.
Useful information and timelines
27. Advert Closes- Sunday 9th November at Midnight
28. CV Review/Shortlist: Tuesday 11th November
29. Interviews: Starting from w/c 17th November
30. 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.
SC Clearance is required for this role (SC Guidance) - you will hold or will be required to obtain Security Check (SC) level vetting