Senior Professional Support – Primary Market Specialist Supervision team

Senior Professional Support – Primary Market Specialist Supervision team

Salary: London £34,700 to £43,300 per annum – Salary offered will be based on skills and experience

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to play a key role in a team that works at the heart of corporate finance and capital markets activity in London?

The team/department

We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual to provide, administrative and regulatory support to our Primary Market Specialist Supervision team and the wider Primary Market Oversight Department.

The UK is a global centre for the primary issuance of securities and tradable financial instruments like shares and bonds. The Primary Market Oversight Department focuses on a wide range of primary market activity, including supervising key intermediaries in the issuance of new securities, and monitoring and enforcing compliance with the Listing Rules, the Market Abuse Regulation and the Disclosure Requirements and Transparency Rules. Our work is market-facing, real time, and often high profile.

The Primary Market Specialist Supervision Team is responsible for supervising sponsors. The role of a sponsor is to advise certain listed issuers and their directors at key points, such as on initial listing. The team is also responsible for supervising Primary Information Providers, which are the information services that companies must use to disseminate regulatory information. Market integrity is at the heart of the team’s work and, as such, the team is also focused on how firms, including sponsors and other corporate finance firms, comply with the Market Abuse Regulation.

What you will be doing (the role)

This role sits within the Primary Market Specialist Supervision Team. It involves a wide and varied mixture of professional support and regulatory tasks and responsibilities, both within the team and working with other managers and teams across the wider Market Oversight Directorate. As such, you will build your network and understanding of markets, often acting as a pivotal player in the coordination and support of team and department activities.

The role involves liaising with internal and external stakeholders to arrange regulatory meetings and assisting with the preparation of documentation for these meetings. This also involves flexing to cover less predictable and more complex work like helping to coordinate an event or collating information using FCA systems to support a piece of regulatory review work. The role also involves some routine and regular activities like complex diary management and running regulatory reports. As such, this role could suit someone seeking to develop their career in either the regulatory or professional support fields.

Core elements of the role are:

• Collating information to support regulatory reviews or casework
• Carrying out regulatory and open-source checks required by our procedures
• Creating and updating cases in our systems, when supporting casework or other regulatory processes like our annual notifications from sponsors and primary information providers
• Using FCA systems to prepare management information and regulatory reports
• Coordinating requests for software and IT resources and raising calls with our helpdesk to resolve issues
• Providing diary and secretarial support to a small number of Managers in the Primary Market Oversight department. This can involve juggling competing priorities across the managers you support, proactively managing meeting clashes and engaging with internal and external contacts

What you will get from the role?

This role offers an excellent opportunity to be an important and integral part of a team in a busy, friendly environment. You will:

• Gain an insight into primary markets regulation and the operation of the Listing Rules, Disclosure Requirements and Transparency Rules and the Market Abuse Regulation
• Develop your skills and experience in a department with considerable exposure to the transactions making the headlines in the business pages
• Work with a number of managers across a wide variety of the activities covered by the Primary Market Oversight department, engaging with internal and external stakeholders, building relationships inside and outside the FCA
• Have excellent access to learning, training, and personal development opportunities

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 plus bank holidays
• 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 our London office. 

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 in using Microsoft Office applications
• Strong written communication skills
• Experience providing complex diary management and administrative support to a high standard

Essential

• Highly organised, with the ability to co-ordinate, prioritise and multi-task
• Willingness and ability to learn new processes and regulatory computer systems quickly and be a point of contact to assist team members (training will be provided)
• Numerate and analytical, with an ability to manage data
• Flexible and able to adapt to changing plans and requirements
• Self-starting, with an ability to work proactively using your own initiative and with minimal supervision (once competent)
• Collaborative, working with others to deliver effective administrative support
• Excellent at developing effective relationships with people at all levels, both internally and externally

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 as a whole. 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 men, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our Senior Professional Business Support – Regulatory 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 can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking. 

Useful information 

Applications for this role close at 23:59 on 28th August 2024

This role is graded as Senior Professional Business Support – Regulatory

The role is based in London

What to expect from our interview process 

If successful, you will be invited to attend a first stage competency-based interview.

Got a question?

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

For internal applicants, please contact Louise Nash at Louise.Nash@fca.org.uk

For external applicants, please contact Ifrah Azam at Ifrah.Azam@fca.org.uk

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. 

Security Clearance/Vetting

The successful candidate will hold or will be required to obtain Security Clearance (SC) level vetting.

Please note – Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via email will not be accepted.

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