Senior Data Analyst - Financial Crime (Hybrid, SC) in Leeds

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 Specialist Directorate, the Financial Crime Market Intervention (FCMI) department provides the FCA with specialist financial crime expertise to support its strategic objective by helping to minimise the risk of regulated businesses being used for purposes connected with financial crime. The department is comprised of four Financial Crime Specialist Supervision teams, a Sanctions Supervision Team, a Fraud Supervision Team and a Risk Data & Strategy Team (RDS). Working together with others inside and outside the FCA, we deal with issues involving money laundering, financial sanctions, fraud, bribery and corruption. This role is in the RDS team.

Role Responsibilities

• Work on strategic data projects in developing our data and supervision capabilities to help us remain a leader in financial crime supervision.
• Access and use unique data sets across the FCA to help us stop the UK Financial Sector being used to facilitate Financial Crime.
• Conduct data analysis using various tools available and deliver output that meets financial crime supervision needs.
• Collaborate with a community of data analysts and data scientists across the organisation, including the FCA’s Innovation division.

Skills Required

Minimum

• Demonstrated experience as a data analyst or a business analyst.
• Experience in creating data visualisation dashboards (e.g., Tableau).
• Experience of using Excel and of using advanced SQL or other data analytics tools to interrogate and manipulate data.

Essential

• Effective communication skills to present the outcome of data analysis clearly and effectively, orally and in writing to a variety of stakeholders including non-technical.
• Experience of working to deliver projects to tight deadlines and able to show a high degree of initiative.
• The ability to work effectively with a variety of stakeholders, both internal and external to Financial Crime Specialist Supervision and the FCA, and to provide constructive challenge as necessary.
• Demonstrated ability to lead challenging meetings with senior level individuals with confidence and credibility.
• The ability to deal with conflicting priorities, to prioritise effectively and deliver results on time with minimal supervision.
• A motivated collaborator, with an imaginative and innovative problem‑solving mind‑set and a positive approach and outlook to their work.
• The confidence to make considered judgements and timely decisions, to stand by their decisions and learn from experience.

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.

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.

Security Clearance

SC Clearance is required for this role (SC Guidance) - you will hold or will be required to obtain Security Check (SC) level vetting.