Senior Financial Crime Supervisor

The Financial Crime Market Intervention Department provides the dedicated specialist resource and expertise to help the FCA meet its financial crime responsibilities, as contained in the FCA’s wider objective on integrity and in its specific freestanding duty on financial crime. The department is comprised of four Financial Crime Specialist Supervision teams, a Sanctions Supervisory Team, a Risk, Data & Strategy Team (RDS) and a Financial Crime Public Commitments Strategy & Delivery Team. Working together with others inside and outside the FCA, we deal with issues involving money laundering, financial sanctions and bribery and corruption. The Financial Crime Market Interventions department does not cover market abuse or fraud.

What will you be doing?

• Manage your own case load, overseeing proactive supervisory assessment programmes, a portfolio of reactive casework and relationship-manage major firms.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders, keeping them informed and involved as appropriate.
• Manage intricate regulatory matters, facilitate and chair meetings and supervise compliance visits.
• Oversee regulatory work through evaluations, visits and interventions of regulated firms.
• Work closely with front-line supervision to ensure compliance with relevant rules, laws, and guidance.
• Ensure the goals of the Financial Crime Market Intervention Department are met through your activities.

What you will get from the role

• Opportunities to lead and support high-profile or complex casework, as well as conduct financial crime systems and controls assessments across various financial sectors.
• The opportunity to contribute to shaping the future direction and operational approach of the Financial Crime Market Intervention Department.
• The chance to apply your judgement, make decisions at pace, stand by them, and continuously learn from experience.
• A welcoming, collaborative, and informal environment that encourages creative thinking to drive effective anti-financial crime outcomes for the FCA.
• A dynamic and varied workload, where you’ll take ownership of directing and delivering assigned tasks.
• Insight into evolving industry practices and the implications for financial crime supervision.

Which skills are required?

• Minimum prior experience in financial crime, gained through roles in supervision, compliance, or financial crime functions within a regulatory body, law enforcement agency, government department, financial institution, or consultancy.
• Prior experience in working with complex cases, drawing on your technical expertise.
• Good understanding of the FCA’s regulatory and legal frameworks, alongside a clear awareness of the structure of the financial services industry—covering key products, services, and processes that influence financial crime risk.
• Skilled in carrying out complex assessments of firms’ systems and controls, including participating in or supporting onsite visits and thoughtfully selecting regulatory tools to help ensure compliance.
• Able to assess and interpret a wide range of data and information with agility, enabling responsive and effective actions to help mitigate risk.
• Experienced in working constructively with a diverse group of stakeholders, offering supportive challenge and fostering solutions that are mutually beneficial.
• Clear and confident communicator in writing, with the ability to explain complex issues in an accessible way. Comfortable drafting detailed reports and offering helpful feedback to peers.
• Capable of managing multiple priorities and workstreams effectively, often under time pressure, while maintaining focus and delivering with minimal oversight.
• Partnering team member with a positive, inclusive approach, who supports others, motivates colleagues, and contributes to team learning through mentoring and coaching.

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

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays.
• Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time).
• 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 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.

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

This role is graded as: Senior Associate- Regulatory. SC Clearance is required for this role (SC Guidance) - you will hold or will be required to obtain Security Clearance (SC) level vetting. When submitting your application, please tailor your CV to highlight how you meet the minimum and essential requirements above.

Timeline: Advert Closing Date: 6th June 2025. CV Review/Shortlist: 09th June 2025. Interviews: w/c 16th June 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.

If you are interested in learning more about the role, please contact Steve Christopher on Steve.Christopher@fca.org.uk. Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via email will not be accepted.