Competition Enforcement Associate

Division: Supervision, Policy and Competition

Department: Competition Enforcement and Financial Analysis

Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £43,100 to £57,433 and London from £47,300 to £63,033 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

This role is graded as: Associate – level 8 – Regulatory, or depending on the candidate, Practising Legal

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. 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 in the Competition Directorate, the Competition Enforcement and Financial Analysis department combines competition specialists who lead enforcement investigations and provide specialist advice, supporting both competition and wider FCA projects with financial analysts skilled in business model analysis.

Role Responsibilities

• Support Competition Act 1998 case work and a range of competition-related activities, including market studies, strategy development and policy work, while building positive relationships.
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, gathering and analysing market and firm level information from diverse sources to support thoughtful decision-making.
• Contribute to projects and investigations with care and efficiency, drawing on experience in competition or regulatory contexts to meet deadlines and deliver high-quality outputs.
• Implement solid analytical and communication strategies to connect meaningfully with both internal and external stakeholders.

Minimum Skills required

• Experience in identifying and analysing complex information related to markets and organisational behaviour for the purpose of informing competition or regulatory analysis.
• A university degree in Law or another relevant discipline.
• Experience of working on competition or regulatory issues in a law firm, in-house, or regulatory or competition authority.

Essential

• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver projects to time.
• Good written and oral communication skills.
• Experience in gathering, analysing and assimilating evidence and information from multiple sources in a competition or regulatory investigation.
• Ability to advise and influence stakeholders.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• 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).
• 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 designed around your lifestyle.

Our values & 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.