Asset Management Supervisor in Edinburgh

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