Integrated Planning Data and Technology Lead in Edinburgh

Division: Operations

Department: Portfolio Management Unit

Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £49,600 to £62,000 and London from £54,500 to £68,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

This role is graded as: Lead Associate - Corporate

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

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 finance services. The Integrated Planning Team sits within the Portfolio Management Unit and plays an important role in helping the FCA make well-informed, joined-up decisions about its priorities, people and resources. The team brings together planning, data and insight from across the organisation to create a clearer picture of what can be delivered, what it will take and where the key trade-offs and opportunities lie. Working closely with colleagues across divisions and corporate functions, the Portfolio Management Unit helps shape a more connected, forward-looking approach to planning and portfolio oversight - giving this role the opportunity to help improve how the FCA plans, prioritises and delivers its work.

Role responsibilities

• Shape the development of planning data and technology across strategic, annual and in-year planning, ensuring decision-makers have timely, high-quality insight.
• Design and implement planning data models and standards, integrating financial, people, delivery, risk, and dependency information into a clear, consistent view.
• Review and assess divisional plans, using data-driven analysis to assess affordability, capacity, deliverability, risk and key trade-offs.
• Develop dashboards and management information that translate complex data into clear, actionable insight for senior leaders and governance forums.
• Partner with colleagues across Planning, Finance, People, Risk and Technology to improve data quality, align requirements and enable joined-up decision-making.
• Build capability across the planning community through technical leadership, coaching and guidance, while continuously improving tools, processes and ways of working.

Skills required

Minimum:

• Demonstrated experience designing and applying data models, standards and information structures to support complex planning, reporting and decision-making in large organisations.
• Extensive experience analysing and constructively challenging business plans, investment proposals or similar submissions, using data to assess affordability, capacity, deliverability, risk and dependencies.
• Demonstrated ability to develop dashboards, management information and decision-support reporting that translate complex data into clear, actionable insight for senior stakeholders.

Essential:

• Ability to provide technical leadership within a specialist area, using coaching, quality assurance and guidance to enable high-quality delivery without formal line management responsibility.
• Well-developed analytical judgement and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, question assumptions, identify trade-offs and turn complex information into clear, decision-ready insight.
• Deep understanding of how large, complex organisations operate, with the ability to connect strategic priorities to operational, financial, people, risk and delivery considerations.
• Effective stakeholder management and communication, with the credibility to provide constructive challenge and communicate complex technical issues clearly to audiences at all levels, including senior leaders.
• Ability to operate effectively within structured governance environments, applying sound professional judgement where information is incomplete, priorities compete and decisions have organisation-wide impact.
• Effective collaborative skills, with experience working across organisational boundaries—particularly with Finance, People, Risk and Technology - to improve ways of working and support joined-up decision-making.

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.

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 outcomes.

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

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.

Useful information and timelines

Timeline:

• Job advert close: Midnight, 3rd June 2026.
• CV Review/Shortlist: 5th June 2026.
• Interview: w/c 15th June 2026.

Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.