Senior Cryptoasset and Payment Supervisor

Division: Supervision, Policy & Competition (SPC)

Department: Market Interventions – Digital Assets (MIDA)

Salary: National (Leeds and Edinburgh) £53,800 to £62,733 and London £59,200 to £69,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

This role is graded as: Senior Associate – Regulatory

About The FCA And Team

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 financial 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 Payments and Digital Assets directorate, MIDA supervises and sets regulatory standards in payments and crypto asset firms. MIDA team plays a vital role in overseeing crypto asset firms’ compliance with financial crime regulations, helping to protect consumers and uphold market integrity. Working in a changing and evolving environment, the team identifies and addresses emerging risks, collaborates closely with Authorisations and Policy colleagues, supports the development of the future crypto regulatory framework and contributes to supervisory strategies across the sector. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to important work in a highly innovative area, while applying strong judgement, analytical thinking, communication and relationship‑building skills to deliver positive outcomes.

Role Responsibilities

• Work across a diverse range of innovative business and operating models in the rapidly evolving crypto assets and payments sector, building expertise at the forefront of financial regulation.
• Lead some of the FCA’s most high‑profile and complex cases, assessing compliance, identifying risks and taking swift action to reduce harm across both registered and unregistered firms.
• Partner across the FCA and with UK and international stakeholders to deliver coordinated regulatory strategies that support markets and protect consumers.
• Tackle complex cross‑border challenges linked to digital assets, helping prevent financial crime, scams and other harms that can impact millions of consumers across the UK.
• Influence senior industry leaders, drive improvements in standards and, where necessary, take decisive regulatory action to safeguard consumers and support market integrity.

Minimum Skills Required

• Prior experience of FCA supervision and/or a good understanding of the FCA’s regulatory framework and wider legal landscape relating to crypto assets.
• Demonstrable experience of building and managing effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leaders and external partners.
• Demonstrable experience of analysing complex information, making risk‑based judgements and clearly communicating key issues, insights and recommendations to inform decision‑making.

Essential Skills

• Well‑developed communication skills, with the ability to convey complex information clearly, present recommendations with confidence and produce high‑quality written outputs.
• Effective stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and collaborate closely with colleagues, senior leaders and external partners.
• Ability to work at pace in a changing environment, managing multiple priorities while maintaining high standards and delivering impactful outcomes.
• Solid analytical skills, with the ability to assess complex information, exercise sound judgement and make risk‑based decisions.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively as part of a team, contributing to shared objectives and valuing diverse perspectives and experiences.
• Curiosity and an engaged approach to understanding emerging risks, industry developments and the evolving crypto and payments landscape.
• Commitment to continuous learning and development, with an openness to new challenges, changing priorities and supporting the growth and success of others.

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 and 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.

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.