Manager - Regulatory

Role Summary

Manager – Regulatory / Proceeds of Crime Team Manager at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Division & Team

Division: Enforcement and Market Oversight
Department: Wholesale and Unauthorized Business Investigations
Team: Proceeds of Crime (POC)

Salary

National (Edinburgh and Leeds) £72,100 – £90,000 per annum. London £79,300 – £105,000 per annum. Practitioner Legal pays £79,400 – £99,100 (National) and £87,300 – £109,000 (London). Salary will be based on skills and experience.

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure financial markets are honest, fair and competitive.

Team Overview

The FCA’s Proceeds of Crime teams (POC) are responsible for specialist investigation and litigation work under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA), applying it across England and Wales. The POC function is the FCA’s centre of excellence for this work and is involved in all related activities across the organisation. As one of two POC Team Managers in EMO, you will lead a specialist team focused on confiscation investigations, asset recovery and enforcement work under POCA.

Responsibilities

• Managing a portfolio of cases under POCA, including confiscation investigations, asset recovery and related enforcement actions, ensuring timely and effective progression.
• Leading and developing a team of approximately 12 Accredited Financial Investigators (AFIs) and Financial Intelligence Officers (FIOs), with responsibility for performance, training, accreditation and professional growth.
• Overseeing legal processes, including drafting and approving court applications (e.g. restraint orders, search warrants), attending court and taking urgent action where required.
• Providing expert advice on proceeds of crime matters across EMO and the wider FCA, ensuring consistency in operational practice and compliance with national standards.
• Engaging with internal and external stakeholders, including law enforcement agencies, legal representatives, government departments and senior FCA colleagues.
• Supporting departmental leadership, contributing to strategy, recruitment and continuous improvement as part of the senior management team.
• Representing the FCA in national and international policy discussions related to proceeds of crime and financial investigation.

What you’ll get from the role

• A leadership role in a strategically important function delivering high-impact, statutory work.
• The opportunity to shape and influence FCA policy and investigative strategy relating to proceeds of crime.
• Experience working on complex, high-profile investigations alongside stakeholders from across the FCA and beyond.
• A supportive, high-energy working environment where innovation and development are encouraged.
• A key role in supporting and developing talented investigators and specialists across the team.

Required Skills and Qualifications

Minimum

• Significant experience applying the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) in England & Wales, including providing operational direction in investigations and litigation.
• Proven leadership and people management experience, including coaching, performance oversight and team development.
• Accredited Financial Investigator Confiscator, or willingness and ability to achieve accreditation and act as a Senior Appropriate Officer under the national scheme.

Essential

• Experienced project manager with strong portfolio management skills, including planning, quality control, budgeting and forecasting costs and/or time associated with a project.
• Ability to perform under pressure, managing competing priorities while delivering multiple outcomes to deadlines.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to present well-reasoned arguments in a clear and concise manner.
• Ability to exercise own judgement and defend those judgements where necessary and appropriate.
• Excellent relationship management skills and the ability to command respect and credibility internally and externally.
• Ability to contribute to the strategy of the departmental management team and wider division and continuously seek out new and more effective ways to conduct your work and feed this back to management.
• Ability to work collaboratively and inclusively as part of a team, valuing different perspectives and backgrounds.
• Continuously seeking out new and more effective ways to conduct your work and feeding this back to management.

Values & Diversity

We are proud to be an inclusive employer, and our ambition is to cultivate a culture for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views and experiences. 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. Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work/life balance and support our diversity ambitions.

Benefits

• 28 days holiday per year plus bank holidays.
• Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time).
• Private healthcare with Bupa.
• A non-contributory pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (with increasing contribution levels).
• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary.
• Income protection.
• Competitive flexible benefits scheme to personalise your package.

Application Process

• SC Clearance required; you will hold or be required to obtain Security Check (SC) level vetting.
• Advert closing date: 11th November (no applications after 00:00 on that day).
• CV review/shortlist: Week commencing 17th November.
• Written case study assignment: Week commencing 24th November.
• First stage interviews (virtual): Week commencing 1st December.
• Hays Manager assessment: Week commencing 8th December.
• Second stage interviews (in-person): Week commencing 15th December.

Contact

If you are interested in learning more about the role, please contact Raimonda at Raimonda.Stankute@fca.org.uk.

Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via email will not be accepted.