Asset Management Supervisor

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. SPC oversees firms and individuals (supervision), creates and reviews the rules by which they operate (policy) and identifies and remedies ineffective competition in markets (competition). Sitting within the Buy side Directorate, the Market Interventions (MI), Asset Management and Funds Department supervises asset management firms, using data-driven oversight and collaboration across the FCA and industry to address key harms and ensure good outcomes for consumers and markets.

Role Responsibilities

• Review firm business models and investment data, identifying key risks of harm early to protect consumers and markets, giving you the opportunity to shape meaningful, risk-based regulatory insights.
• Contribute to, and support, the delivery of supervisory strategies, contributing to their design and implementation to address emerging risks early, enabling you to play a direct role in improving industry outcomes.
• Respond to live industry events and firm-specific issues, applying an event-driven approach to mitigate risks as they arise, offering time-sensitive, meaningful work with real-time relevance.
• Apply a range of supervisory tools and techniques, using data and insight to inform regulatory decisions, helping you build solid technical knowledge in financial supervision.
• Exercise sound judgment across complex topics, communicating clearly and concisely to both internal and external stakeholders, building your reputation and credibility at all levels.
• Engaging with firms to shape conduct and behaviour, including their business models, financial resilience and culture to improve customer outcomes, allowing you to help improve how firms operate.
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams, building relationships with stakeholders including specialist supervision areas, Authorisations, and Enforcement to deliver coordinated regulatory action, giving you broad exposure and a professional network.
• Oversee and support key supervisory projects, using effective analytical and data-led approaches to inform insight and decision-making, enhancing your ability to deliver impactful, evidence-based outcomes.

Minimum Skills required

• Prior experience in a regulatory setting including an enforcement, compliance, supervisory or policy role or similar.
• Prior experience of reviewing qualitative and quantitative information, making judgments and presenting key issues.
• Proven experience of managing stakeholders.

Essential

• Demonstrates a clear commitment to public service, with a clear motivation to contribute to positive outcomes for consumers and markets.
• Possesses a solid understanding of the FCA’s role, objectives, and regulatory responsibilities, with the ability to align work to its strategic priorities.
• Critically reviews and challenges information, applying a methodical approach to assess evidence, identify risks, and draw well-reasoned conclusions.
• Communicates complex issues clearly and concisely, tailoring key messages effectively for a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Operates professionally in environments characterised by uncertainty and complexity, maintaining sound judgment and composure in stressful situations.
• Demonstrates the ability to develop and apply technical knowledge, supporting delivery across multiple workstreams and regulatory areas.
• Adopts a flexible and pragmatic approach, responding effectively to changing priorities and adjusting to evolving business needs.
• Works efficiently at pace, balancing and prioritising competing objectives to deliver high-quality outcomes within tight deadlines.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• 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.
• Hybrid model where employees work a minimum of 40% in the office each month (expectation of 50% for senior leaders). Changing from September to a minimum of 50% in the office each month (expectation of 60% for Directors and Executive Directors).
• A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle.

Our values and culture

Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that’s free from discrimination and bias, celebrates difference, and supports colleagues to deliver at their best. 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. If you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition, your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support. We welcome diverse working styles and aim to find flexible solutions that suit both the role and individual needs, including options like part-time and job sharing where applicable.

Disability confident: our hiring approach

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.

Useful information and timelines

• Advert Close Date: 5th July 2026.
• CV Review/Shortlist: 7th July 2026.
• Pre-Screen Call with Hiring Manager: 13th July 2026.
• First Interview & Case Study Assessment: W/C 20th July 2026.

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.