Senior Data Strategy Supervisor - Early & High Growth Oversight (Ehgo)

Salary

National ranging £49,700 - £60,000, and London from £53,300 - £ 65,000

The Team

Early and High Growth Oversight (EHGO) is an innovative department that uses proactive engagement and early indicators to reduce and prevent serious harm, set and test higher standards, promote competition and positive change, and support firms.

Early and High Growth Oversight is a multi-sector department, where supervisors can gain exposure to a wide variety of portfolios, including start-ups and those with innovative business models. We currently supervise over 300 firms and are working to realise our ambition to build and roll out automation, which will allow us to supervise every newly authorised solo regulated firm in the first few years of their regulatory journey.

We are recruiting for a Senior Associate who will play a key role in meeting our objectives, as we grow to the number of firms that we monitor and support through our supervisory function. We are also looking for someone who will play a key role in supporting EHGO’s Data Strategy, MI, and dashboard development.

The role is incredibly varied, and we are looking for candidates comfortable with such variety, to use their analysis and judgement to manage through complex and fast-moving situations.

What you will be doing
As a Senior Associate focusing on our Data Strategy, you will play a key role in supporting and working collaboratively with the department in developing our reporting processes, producing analytics tools, and delivering key insights in identifying and monitoring harm.

You will work with a variety of stakeholders to conduct an assessment of our portfolio of firms to identify trends and insights to feed to our key partners in Authorisations and Supervision. You will also be supporting in reporting key management information and creating dashboards to visualise data in a useful way.

You will be using your core skills to help make sure that UK financial markets work well, including:

• Assessing firms’ business model and strategies and identifying the key risks of harm, problem solving, dealing with complex problems, and finding solutions 

• Using data to spot trends and provide insight to problems we are looking to address
• Developing dashboards to visualise information and data
• Managing a large and varied workload and competing priorities
• Working collaboratively and building strong relationships with stakeholders across the department and the wider FCA, including specialist supervision areas, Authorisations and Enforcement
• Communicating information to Senior Management

What will the candidate get from the role?

You will have the opportunity to:

• Experience a unique view of the financial services industry, and undertake interesting, challenging and rewarding work, helping the division to add public value and deliver its objectives
• Make a positive difference to consumers and the market
• Work with and influence a wide range of industry professionals, both internally and externally to the FCA and to gain exposure to senior leaders both within the industry and the FCA
• Gain wide experience supporting your career in regulation or financial services
• Receive the training and support you need to develop your career
• Share your knowledge within an environment of excellence and continuous learning

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays (pro-rata)
• Private healthcare with Bupa
• 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)
• 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.

Which skills are required?
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 of proactively managing casework and competing priorities to tight deadlines
• Experience of analysing data and information, making judgements, and presenting key findings
• Prior experience building rapport and constructive relationships with key contacts, both internally and externally

Essential

• Demonstrate the ability to work autonomously, as well as being a good team player who demonstrates an inclusive approach and the impact and influence to generate shared goals for the team/Early Oversight function
• The ability to act on your own initiative, to assess and validate complex data and information, and the ability to succinctly summarise complex data
• Demonstrate experience of using data and understanding data tools to conduct analysis, spot trends and provide insights and solutions
• Strong analytical skills: ability to make logical, methodical, and timely decisions including under pressure
• Prioritisation and organisational skills: ability to manage competing priorities, and a challenging workload at times, in a resource-constrained environment showing tenacity, resilience and flexibility
• Identify and support key stakeholders, build and maintain constructive relationships, and win the support of key stakeholders.
• Ability to learn, develop and take on new responsibilities, quickly filling gaps in your understanding and escalating matters when appropriate

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.

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 Senior 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.   
 

Multi-location

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

• This role is graded as Senior Associate – Regulatory
• Applications for this role close on Sunday 25th February (midnight)
• CVs will be reviewed by the Recruiting Team from Monday 26th February onwards
• Interviews will take place W/C 4th March 2024

Got a question?

If you are interested in learning more about the role, please contact:

For internal candidates, please speak to Jen Wishart on [email protected]

For external applicants, please contact Aaron Ward on [email protected]

What to expect from our interview process 

The process will involve one stage:

• A Case Study and a Competency Based Interview

Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role. 

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.