Lawyer (Interventions Team)
Division - EMO
Department - Retail 4
Team - Interventions Team
Salary – National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £47,200 to £59,000 and London £49,700 to £62,000 per annum (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
About the FCA
The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.
The Retail 4 teams in Enforcement provide legal support to Supervision to intervene to prevent harm, triage serious misconduct for investigation and cancel firms failing to meet Threshold Conditions.
What will you be doing?
Associate Lawyers in the Interventions Team provide legal advice to Supervision and Executive Decision Makers on a range of interventions across the full remit of the FCA’s work.
Key responsibilities include:
1. Progressing a portfolio of demanding interventions often with tight deadlines
2. Advising on evidential sufficiency, identifying key legal and regulatory risks and making judgements and recommendations
3. Drafting intervention documentation (including statutory notices, legal advice notes and Tribunal documents)
4. Building and maintaining effective working relationships with colleagues in other areas at all levels within the FCA and with external bodies
5. Contributing to internal training and knowledge sharing
What will you get from the role?
6. An opportunity to work on unique high-profile, impactful cases of public importance tackling the most serious financial services matters
7. Gain exposure to a wide range of legal and regulatory issues directly supporting the FCA’s statutory objectives
8. Develop your legal expertise through challenging, real-world application and novel legal scenarios
Which skills are required?
We are a Disability Confident Employer; therefore, disabled people or individuals with long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. (To learn more about the Disability Confident Scheme Click Here)
Minimum
9. Qualified lawyer, with a valid practising certificate issued by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for England and Wales (if a solicitor), or the General Council of the Bar for England and Wales (if a barrister) (or a similar internationally recognised qualification)
Essential
10. Ability to analyse complex evidence in order to form a view as to what action is warranted, what further evidence may be required/available and how it might be obtained
11. Ability to learn about new or novel legal issues quickly and with enthusiasm, with the necessary oversight and support of colleagues
12. Ability to create solutions and deliver pragmatic outcome-focused advice
13. Ability to advise in a confident and reasoned manner and to challenge appropriately
14. Ability to work at pace and under pressure to deliver a variety of competing workstreams and to prioritise effectively to deliver to agreed deadlines
15. Good communication skills in order to present the outcome of analysis clearly and effectively, orally and in writing
16. Ability to exercise own judgement and defend those judgements where necessary and appropriate
17. Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues in other business units and with external bodies
18. Ability to thrive whilst managing a varied, dynamic and urgent caseload, maintaining appropriate progress across the portfolio of cases
Our Values & Diversity
We are proud to be an inclusive employer and our ambition is to cultivate a culture for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views and experiences. 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.
Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.
Benefits of working at the FCA
19. 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
20. Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time)
21. Private healthcare with Bupa
22. A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)
23. Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
24. Income protection
We also have a competitive flexible benefits scheme which gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle.
We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we can explore what might work best for both sides.
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Application Support
We are dedicated to removing barriers and ensuring our application process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible.
If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition requiring changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter using the details below and they will be happy to discuss this further with you.
Useful Information and Timeline
25. This role is graded as Associate – Practising Legal
26. Advert Closing Date: 29th October 2025
27. CV review/Shortlist: 30th – 31st October
28. Interview: w/c 3rd November 2025
If you are interested in applying for this role, please attach your CV and a short covering statement (up to 300 words) to this application link by 29th October 2025. Interviews will commence w/c 3rd November 2025.
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.
Got a question?
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Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via email will not be accepted.