Strategic Assessment Intelligence Analyst - FTC until 31/03/28 in Edinburgh

Division: Enforcement and Market Oversight

Department: Enforcement Intelligence and Specialist Services

Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £53,800 to £59,600 and London from £59,200 to £65,000 (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 finance services.

Sitting within the Enforcement & Market Oversight Division, the Enforcement Intelligence and Specialist Services (EISS) Directorate provides strategic knowledge, intelligence capabilities, and operational support across enforcement functions, improving the FCA's ability to detect harm, deliver effective investigations, and uphold market integrity.

The FCA has recently built a strategic analysis function within the Specialist Intelligence Department (SID) to understand, support and progress the FCA's operational objectives. The FCA strategy commits to 4 key objectives, one of which is preventing Financial Crime, and this function within the Partner & Insights team is central to achieving this objective.

The strategic assessment team provides a unique insight into the financial crime threats the FCA and our regulated populations are exposed to, offering all-source analysis to better understand new threats and emerging issues and offer robust recommendations to internal stakeholders to better mitigate the threat of harm.

Role responsibilities:

• Conducting strategic analysis of internal and external threats, including scanning, across the financial crime landscape to support informed decision-making for FCA seniors.
• Contextualising and summarising a wide range of intelligence sources to inform analysis.
• Identifying emerging threats, risks and vulnerabilities through comprehensive analysis to guide strategic and tactical prioritisation.
• Developing and delivering strategic assessments and intelligence reports tailored to internal stakeholder requirements, as well as adapting such assessments for external partner awareness.
• Generating and gathering all-source intelligence to detect and understand financial crime threats such as money laundering, fraud, AI, digital assets, technological advancements and sanctions evasion affecting the UK financial services sector.
• Creating high-quality analytical products tailored to diverse audiences, using appropriate formats and presentation styles to communicate insights effectively.
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders and external partners to enhance threat understanding, share methodologies and review analytical outputs.
• Building and maintaining regular proactive relationships with the analytical community, including identifying opportunities to collaborate on multi-agency threat assessments that have wider impacts on multiple sectors, the UK and worldwide.

Skills required:

• Minimum: Minimum of SC clearance is required - DV clearance (or a willingness to undertake DV clearance) is advantageous.
• Prior experience, and demonstrable ability to analyse complex intelligence and data from diverse sources to draw sound, evidence-based conclusions with clear and effective communication of findings both verbally and in writing - experience to include producing strategic intelligence assessments.
• Demonstrated experience in effectively managing internal stakeholder and external partner relationships.

Essential:

• Effective written and verbal communication skills, including proficiency in Microsoft packages.
• Demonstrable understanding of the digital assets sector and the relevant economic crime threats, including how harm can be mitigated.
• Skilled in delivering analytical insights across grades.
• Experience of working collaboratively in cross-functional teams to deliver intelligence-led projects to progress customer needs.
• Well-versed in the financial services sector and/or UK Economic Crime landscape including current national priorities.
• Demonstrable application of National Intelligence Model principles and relevant intelligence and information sharing frameworks.
• Solid understanding of UK Government, Law Enforcement, Regulatory and private sector structures, functions and role.
• Understanding and application of the PHIA Common Analytical Standards.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Hybrid model where colleagues spend a minimum of 50% of their working time in the office each month (60% for Directors and Executive Directors) across our London, Leeds and Edinburgh offices.
• 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 & 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.

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 timeline:

• Advert Closing: 4 October at 11:59pm
• CV Review/Shortlist: 6 October
• Case Study Assessment: 12-13 October
• Interviews: w/c 26th October

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. SC Clearance is required for this role (SC Guidance) - you will hold or will be required to obtain Security Check (SC) level vetting.