Executive Assistant – Consumer Investments
Salary: National from £49,700 - £58,000 and London from £53,300 - £65,000
Are you interested in helping to shape a better Consumer Investments market in the UK?
We are recruiting for an Executive Assistant to support the Director of Consumer Investments (CI) on operational, supervisory and policy matters.
Consumer Investments (CI) exists to ensure that consumers can make effective investment decisions and get a fair deal. Its goals are driven by the Consumer Investments Strategy, whose vision is that Consumers can:
-
Invest with confidence, understanding the risks they are taking, and the regulatory protections provided
-
Access & identify investments that suit their circumstances and attitude to risk
-
Be protected from scams
-
Be able to get advice or support to invest, should they want it
What you will be doing
-
Providing support and advice to the Director and the wider CI Senior Leadership Team (SLT) on a range of management, strategic, business, and regulatory issues
-
Assisting the rest of CI on management issues and in relation to dealings with the Director and leadership team, and ensuring the effective flow of information between the Directors and teams in the Directorate and with other areas of the FCA
-
Driving forward and coordinating policy work on the Directors’ top priorities, liaising with relevant teams across CI, Supervision, Policy and Competition (SPC) and the FCA to ensure effective delivery
-
Ensuring the Directors’ offices run efficiently, including providing support and direction to the Directors’ Personal Assistant (PA)
-
Supporting the Director in preparing for external events and stakeholder engagements, including writing speeches and briefings
-
Working closely with other Directors’ and Executive Directors’ offices across the building
-
Assisting the CI leadership team and management team on a daily basis by managing their collective priorities and ensuring actions are carried out
What will you get from the role
-
The opportunity to gain insight into the leadership and issues involved in a wide range of policy work across the FCA
-
The opportunity to build a strong network and profile with senior leaders and teams across CI and the FCA more widely, engaging with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
-
You will enjoy a varied portfolio, providing support to the Director and senior leadership team to ensure the smooth running of the Directors’ offices and the Directorate, as well as driving forward and coordinating policy work on the Director’s top priorities
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.
-
Demonstrable experience of managing a heavy and varied workload with multiple priorities in a complex organisation
-
Experience of policy making, supervision or regulation
Essential
-
Ability to assimilate large amounts of information, understand the important issues and advise and brief the director accordingly
-
The ability to build networks and to engage with internal and external stakeholders
-
Good written and verbal communication and influencing skills
-
Ability to remain calm and approachable under pressure
-
Excellent attention to detail
-
A collaborative approach to working with colleagues
-
The ability to identify emerging issues before they arise
-
The ability to draw links between issues and understand how they may relate
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 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 can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t 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
Applications for this role close at midnight on Sunday 24th September
This role is graded at Senior Associate – Regulatory
Please note that depending on the volume of applications received this advert may close early, so we recommend applying as soon as possible.
What to expect from our interview process
All applications will be reviewed after the advert has closed. Successful candidates will then be invited to complete a 60 minute competency based interview and role related exercise.
Got a question?
If you are interested in learning more about the role please contact:
For internal applicants, please contact Beth Haydon at
beth.haydon@fca.org.uk
For external applicants, please contact Chhavi Bartaria at
chhavi.bartaria@fca.org.uk
Please note that all applications must be submitted through our online portal, applications sent via email will not be accepted.