Junior Data Analyst

Salary: London up to £38,500 per annum and National up to £37,200 per annum

Do you want to work in the innovative and ever-changing world of payments and digital assets? Are you interested in joining a team that will help shape and deliver the future strategy of the Payments and Digital Assets Directorate at the FCA?

We are seeking a motivated Associate to join the Cross-cutting Market Analysis and Strategy Department in the Payments and Digital Assets Directorate.

The Department

The Department performs an integral role in defining the FCA strategies for payments and digital assets, designing and implementing data strategy, identifying, and managing risk through data, training, external engagement, horizon scanning and initiative-taking identification of trends, amongst other things. The role is a fantastic opportunity to have influence in the fascinating world of payments and digital assets and to develop in-depth knowledge of the sectors.

What you will be doing?

As an Associate focussing on data analysis, you would play a key role in analysing the payments and digital assets sectors and helping evidence and inform the FCA’s strategy for the sectors.

The key responsibilities will be:

• The design and delivery of data collection and evaluation to support the FCA’s strategy for payments and digital assets, using proprietary and open-source data tools, platforms, and analytical tool kits
• Presenting the outcomes of data analysis in clear, concise, and impactful ways (including to senior stakeholders) using data visualisation techniques and software to inform decisions
• Working with crypto policy and supervision, and payments policy and supervision teams to create and maintain dashboards with agreed metrics
• Identifying new opportunities to use data analysis and data visualisation to support projects and priorities
• Driving and embedding cultural change throughout the Directorate regarding data and analytics, providing training where needed to improve understanding

What will you get from the role?

• The role is a great opportunity to develop your data analysis skills and use them to make a difference in the fascinating world of payments and digital assets
• You will also be able to develop knowledge of the payments and digital assets sectors
• There will be ample opportunity to work with data, internal and external stakeholders, and the industry to influence and drive forward a number of focus areas including supervision and policy

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

• 25 days holiday per year
• Private healthcare with Bupa
• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of your basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach the age of 35)
• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
• Income protection

We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.

The skills and experience you will have

Minimum

We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role.

• Experience working in financial services, legal, accounting or in another sector for a regulator or public body
• Experience in interrogating, manipulating, and analysing data using data visualisation dashboards (e.g., Tableau and/ or Power BI and/or Python/R)

Essential

• Awareness of the digital assets, payments, and e-money sectors
• Experience of analysing information or data; exercising robust, consistent judgements that balance a range of competing factors, and conveying their implications in a concise manner
• Experience of building good working relationships with stakeholders to support the delivery of departmental priorities through data analysis
• Experience of working at pace and under pressure
• Experience of balancing and managing priorities, working solo and in a team

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair, and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses, and the economy. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found here: Our Strategy 2022 to 2025 (fca.org.uk)

The FCA's Values & Diversity

Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion 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.

The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our Associate role.

Flexible Working

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 cannot promise to give you exactly what you want but we will not judge you for asking.

Multilocation & Hybrid Working

As part of the FCA’s on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, or London offices.  This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from.

Useful Information

Applications for this role close on 1st March 2024

This role is graded as Associate – level 9 Regulatory

This is a permanent role

Got a question?

If you are external and are interested in learning more about the role, please contact Chhavi Bartaria at [email protected]

If you are internal and are interested in learning more about the role, please contact Kezia Downie at [email protected]

What to expect from our assessment and selection process

The assessment process will be a competency-based interview.

Application support

We want to remove any possible barriers and are committed to providing a wide range of reasonable adjustments so that you can keep the focus on your conversations and be at your best.

If you have an accessibility requirement, disability, or condition that means you might require changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter to discuss this further. Our aim is to make your application as easy and comfortable as possible, and your recruiter will be happy to work with you to make any necessary arrangements where possible.

Please note that all applications must be submitted through our online portal before the closing date, applications sent via email will not be accepted.