Manager – Asset Servicing & Asset Management Supervision

Division: Supervision, Policy and Competition

Department: Wholesale Buy‑Side

Role Responsibilities

• Manage, develop and inspire a capable team overseeing buy‑side firms, ensuring consistent, high‑quality supervisory outcomes while shaping a collaborative and inclusive team culture.
• Set clear priorities and strategic direction, ensuring focused and effective supervision across a complex portfolio and enabling the team to deliver meaningful market outcomes.
• Own and deliver the supervisory strategy for Buy‑Side Custody & Fund Services, enhancing oversight of critical market infrastructure and contributing to market stability and investor confidence.
• Apply judgement on complex and high‑profile regulatory issues, guiding key decisions and interventions while working on market sensitive and impactful challenges.
• Support risk focused supervision across asset servicing and asset management, tackling investor protection, operational resilience and governance to shape how firms operate and safeguard clients.
• Manage engagement with senior stakeholders including Boards and executives, building trusted, professional relationships and enhancing your impact at the highest levels.
• Collaborate with internal teams and international regulators, delivering coordinated, forward‑looking regulatory outcomes and broadening your exposure across an evolving regulatory landscape.
• Contribute to directorate strategy and cross organisational initiatives, supporting the future of supervision and playing a key role in supporting innovation and long‑term priorities.

Minimum Skills Required

• Demonstrable leadership experience, including managing people or leading complex work in financial services, at regulators or adjacent environments.
• Demonstrable experience of stakeholder engagement with the ability to explain complex supervisory judgements and engage effectively with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience of supervising, assessing or engaging with regulated firms, or operating in a comparable risk, compliance, policy or regulatory role.

Essential

• Sound judgement, with the ability to make and explain difficult decisions in sensitive situations.
• Ability to prioritise effectively, manage competing demands and deliver outcomes in a high‑profile, risk‑sensitive portfolio.
• Solid understanding of the buy‑side industry, including asset servicing and asset management business models and operating environments.
• Experience dealing with operational and investment risks across the lines of defence.
• Experience of supervising systemically important firms or engaging with regulators.

Benefits

• 28 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.

Disability confident: 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. If you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition, your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support.