Independent Football Regulator – Prudential Data Analysis Manager

The Independent Football Regulator

The Independent Football Regulator (IFR) has been established to protect and promote the sustainability of English football, for the benefit of fans and the local communities football clubs serve.

The IFR will help improve financial sustainability of clubs, ensure resilience across the leagues, and safeguard the heritage of English football. It will operate a licensing regime; set corporate governance standards and monitor, protect, and promote financial resilience. It will also enforce compliance with requirements on financial regulation, club ownership and directors, fan engagement, and heritage protection.

The IFR will also have powers to prohibit clubs from joining competitions that are not fair or meritocratic, or that threaten the heritage or sustainability of English football.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Prudential Data Analysis Manager to join Technical Advisory and Specialist Supervision. The team provide specialist support to supervisors in the form of technical analysis for ODSE applications, licensing assessments and diagnosis of financial risks within football clubs. The team is also responsible for building out the data and analytics function of supervision and the risk assessment framework used to identify and scale financial risk.

Working within a multidisciplinary technical team, you will lead the analysis of prudential returns and other regulatory data to identify trens, anomalies and outliers. You will develop analytical products, risk models and dashboards that enable supervisors to better understand firm’s financial health and prioritise supervisory interventions.

The role combines strong technical and analytical experience with sound supervisory judgement gained from previous work in a prudential regulator of regulated financial institution. You will work closely with policy, supervision and data specialists to translate complex prudential information into clear, actionable insight that supports evidenced based decision making.

As a manager, you will work with junior analysts to support their development and their contribution in the development of analytical methodologies, improve data quality and drive continuous improvement of prudential reporting and risk assessment.

Essential Requirements

• Strong experience in a prudential setting, with a great understanding of regulatory frameworks.
• Experience producing data analysis to understand and inform policy, supervisory priorities and supervisory risk models.
• Strong programming skills in Python and or R, with experience using SQL to extract, manipulate and analyse data.
• Experience supporting stress testing, scenario analysis or macroprudential risk assessments.
• Ability to translate complex analytical findings into clear, evidenced based recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of statistical techniques and forecasting methods.
• Knowledge of R, Power BI, Tableau or Python visualisation tools.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving techniques.
• Experience in line management and developing junior data analysts.

Desirable Skills

• Experience analysing supervisory, regulatory or prudential reporting datasets
• Experience working within a financial regulator, central bank or regulated financial institutional
• Experience in rapid response / surge type support in a supervisory context

If successful you will join a Non Departmental Public Body and will be employed as a Public Servant.

If you are an existing Civil Servant or a DCMS employee you will no longer have access to Civil Service benefits including the Civil Service pension.

The terms and conditions of employment include:

• Pension 12% An employee contribution of 5%, with an employer contribution of 7%.
• Flexible Benefit 8% Employees can choose to invest 8% of their base salary into their pension, or take as cash (post tax)
• Reward we will have a performance based reward programme.
• 31.5 days annual leave
• Flexible and hybrid working, 40% in office attendance
• Occupational sick pay
• 9 months paid Maternity Leave + generous paternity and adoption leave.
• A bespoke L&D programme to help you achieve your personal CPD, including paid membership fees
• Cycle-to-work scheme and much more!

To apply for this vacancy, you will need to submit the following documents which will assessed against experience

➔A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you provide employment history that relates to the essential and desirable criteria, and that any gaps in employment history within the last 2 years are explained.

➔A Statement of Suitability (max 750 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role in reference to the essential requirements highlighted. You may also choose to reference the desirable skills listed however these will not be considered in the assessment of your application except in circumstances where there are a high number and calibre of candidates.

For the shortlist, we will select applicants demonstrating the best fit for the role by considering the evidence provided in your application.

The Interview

The interview process will assess experience through competency questions and a presentation. Full details of this, including the topic, length of time, and whether or not you will need to use visual aids, will be sent to you prior to your interview.

Prior to the interview you will be sent the competency questions in advance. The questions will be based on the essential criteria listed on slide 8

Your interview will take place remotely via Teams.

Further Information

A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.

The IFR has a location neutral pay scale. For more information on this, please see the ‘Candidate Information Pack’ attached.

Reasonable Adjustments

We are committed to supporting candidates so they can perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. This includes making reasonable adjustments to our process. To request an adjustment, please email careers@footballregulator.org.uk

Accessibility

If you are experiencing accessibility difficulties with any of the attachments, please contact us. Contact details can be found in the 'contact point for applicants' section of the job advert.

Feedback

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check and complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals

• nationals of the Republic of Ireland

• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK

• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)

• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)

• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020

Diversity and Inclusion

The IFR is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.

Contact point for applicants

Email: careers@footballregulator.org.uk