Job title: Lead Financial Crime Strategy & Delivery Associate
Division: Supervision, Policy & Competition
Department: OPBAS & Fraud & Financial Crime
1. Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £59,100 to £80,000 and London from £64,900 to £88,100 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
2. This role is graded as: Lead Associate - Regulatory
3. Your recruitment contact is Tahir Khan via k. 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 Specialist Directorate, the O&FFC department (Office for Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering Supervision & Fraud & Financial Crime ) works to reduce money laundering and terrorist financing in the legal and accountancy sectors by ensuring high standards of AML/CTF supervision and fostering collaboration across professional bodies, supervisors, and law enforcement.
Role responsibilities
4. Lead strategic communications and deliver impactful briefings for senior leaders, ensuring clarity and alignment on financial crime initiatives that shape organisational priorities and strengthen regulatory integrity
5. Drive the development and execution of an FCA-wide strategic engagement approach, creating consistent messaging and proactive outreach to amplify the FCA’s influence and credibility in tackling financial crime
6. Coordinate and influence high-level external relationships with government, law enforcement, regulators, and industry, fostering collaboration that aligns shared ambitions and accelerates progress against financial crime
7. Develop deep expertise in financial crime data and metrics, leveraging insights to inform decisions and deliver measurable outcomes that protect consumers and markets
8. Support the delivery of the Fighting Financial Crime theme, contributing to team strategy and helping shape initiatives
9. Coach, mentor, and empower junior team members
Skills required
Minimum:
10. Prior experience within financial crime
11. Proven experience of stakeholder management skills both internally and externally
12. Proven experience of drafting key communication to be shared with multiple stakeholders regarding financial crime issues
Essential:
13. Good knowledge of current FCA priorities, the financial services sector and/or the UK Economic Crime landscape
14. Planning and delivering complex pieces of work across multiple stakeholders
15. Experience of working to deliver projects to tight deadlines and able to show a high degree of initiative
16. Motivated to see work through to its conclusion and will seek solutions rather than problems
17. Support the development and planning of strategy and priorities, and improvements in methodologies and practices
Benefits
18. 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
19. Hybrid model with up to 60% remote work
20. Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary
21. Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance
22. 35 hours of paid volunteering annually
23. 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 timeline
24. Job advert close: 26th November at 23:59pm
25. CV Review/Shortlist: 28th November
26. Competency Based Interview: 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.