Wholesale Bank Lead Supervisor in Leeds

Division: Supervision, Policy and Competition

Department: Wholesale Banks

Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £60,700 to £77,200 and London from £66,600 to £85,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

This role is graded as Lead Associate, Regulatory.

Role Responsibilities:

• Explore firms’ evolving business models and strategies, identifying how market changes influence wholesale conduct risks and shaping our supervisory response.
• Guide firm supervision with confidence, developing strategic plans and swiftly addressing emerging and crystallised issues to protect market integrity.
• Build trusted relationships with seniors, both within firms and across the FCA, to enable effective collaboration and regulatory outcomes.
• Communicate insights and decisions clearly, briefing senior stakeholders through compelling written and verbal updates that inform high‑level strategy.
• Improve internal engagement by collaborating with other teams to ensure coordinated supervision and a consistent regulatory approach.
• Champion transformation and efficiency, spotting opportunities to embed smarter ways of working and support the FCA’s wider change agenda.

Minimum Skills Required:

• Prior experience working in either a wholesale financial service environment, legal, consultancy or other regulatory organisation.
• Demonstrable experience in a role analysing complex business models, products and wholesale conduct risks.
• Written communication skills, and evidence of using evaluation to make conclusions and recommend proportionate courses of action.

Essential Skills:

• Evidence of analysing large amounts of complex information, identifying key themes, drawing conclusions and developing and implementing a strategy and plan of action.
• Experience of analysing complex business models and products and/or wholesale conduct risks or evidence through another role you could quickly do this.
• Working effectively as part of a team by working inclusively, contributing to an environment where all opinions are listened to and respected.
• Ability to prioritise and complete key tasks efficiently.
• Effective interpersonal and stakeholder management skills: able to build and maintain relationships with senior management at wholesale banks, other regulators and staff at all levels within the FCA.

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.

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. 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.