Listings Corporate Finance Senior Specialist

Job title: Listings Corporate Finance Senior Specialist

Division: Enforcement & Market Oversight

Department: Listings

Salary: London ranging from £59,200 to £76,800 and National (Edinburgh & Leeds) ranging from £53,800 to £69,600 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

This role is graded as: Senior Associate - Regulatory

About the FCA and team

We regulate financial services firms in the UK, to keep financial markets fair, thriving and effective. By joining us, you'll play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance services.

Enforcement & Market Oversight (EMO) is responsible for the FCA's responsibilities for market monitoring, delivery of the functions of the UK Listing Authority (UKLA) and the investigation and prosecution of misconduct using the whole spectrum of criminal, civil and administrative sanctions and remedies against firms and individuals.

The Listings Department sits within the Market Oversight Directorate (MO) at the Financial Conduct Authority. The Department has a key role in the regulation of capital markets activity in the UK. We are currently recruiting a Senior Associate to join our Listings Department.

The role offers an excellent opportunity to gain a sound and practical working knowledge of primary markets regulation along with in depth exposure to the transactions making the headlines in the business pages, including major IPOs, equity capital raises such as rights issues, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) activity and non-equity issuances including structured products, sukuks, high yield bonds and medium term note programmes. You will also develop project management and influencing skills, take on significant levels of responsibility and deal with a variety of advisers on technical issues. As your career develops there may be opportunities to work with other areas within the FCA in ad hoc cross-cutting teams.

You will have a rare opportunity to be involved in the workings of the FCA as capital markets regulator at a time of considerable change. You will enjoy a unique insight into the full spectrum of capital markets activity, with the opportunity to have a real impact whilst working collaboratively towards a common goal alongside a range of internal and external stakeholders.

Role Responsibilities

You will work in small case teams assigned to review draft prospectuses and circulars, assess eligibility of companies for listing on the London market and respond to written queries on the interpretation of the regime in a novel and complex area

Within a case team, you will act as a principle point of contact with the advisory firms who submit cases to the Listings Department for review and will be responsible for preparing comments on the documents provided by companies and their advisers, managing transaction timetables, and liaising with companies' advisors

The work is market-facing, highly time critical, and can require challenging judgments to be made often in pressurised circumstances

Skills required

Minimum

• Demonstrable experience of the wider capital markets and/or the corporate transactions carried out by listed companies
• Proven experience of managing stakeholders

Essential

• Good attention to detail and strong analytical and verbal reasoning skills
• Excellent communications skills, including written English
• A motivated approach with the ability to work under pressure and manage a large workload whilst maintaining focus and high standards
• Highly effective influencing skills, including delivering difficult messages, and a positive attitude to dealing with external parties with a commitment to building effective relationships
• A team player with the ability to work independently when required
• The ability to be flexible and adaptable in your approach to encompass new ways of working as required
• Strong organisational skills with the proven ability to prioritise work and escalating issues
• The ability to digest a large amount of written information and identify relevant issues from such information
• Wider experience of capital markets, for example, equity capital markets (ECM) and/or debt capital markets (DCM), knowledge of closed and open-ended investment fund structures and asset management or the broader European capital markets regulatory framework

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Colleagues spend a minimum of 50% of their working time in the office each month (60% for Directors and Executive Directors) across our London, Leeds and Edinburgh offices
• Non-contributory pension (8-12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary
• Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance
• 35 hours of paid volunteering annually
• A flexible benefits scheme design