Senior Data Management Associate (12 month FTC)

Division: Market Oversight

Department: Market Oversight and Intelligence

Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £53,800 to £68,400 and London from £59,200 to £75,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

This role is graded as: Senior Associate - Regulatory

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 Market Oversight Directorate oversees conduct in UK primary and secondary markets through the listing, prospectus, and market abuse regimes, aiming to promote trusted, orderly, and efficient markets via its four departments: Listing, Primary Market Oversight, Secondary Market Oversight, and Market Oversight Data & Intelligence.

Sitting within the Market Oversight Directorate, the Market Oversight Data and Intelligence (MODI) Department, formed in 2024, drives data-led regulation by delivering specialist services, intelligence, and casework across UK markets, supporting innovation, insight, and effective oversight through advanced analytical and technical capabilities.

The Market Oversight Registers Team (MORT) is responsible for managing external market registers such as the Official List of Securities and the National Storage Mechanism, helping ensure the information is accurate and complete. As such, the team plays a significant role in supporting growth and helping consumers navigate their financial lives.

Role responsibilities:

• Lead improvements to external markets data provision by ensuring the information is complete, relevant and accessible.
• Being the business product owner for the National Storage Mechanism, liaising with other areas to ensure the process and systems are operational, resilient and meet evolving needs.
• Working with others across the FCA, including change and technology teams, to deliver our short-term plans to increase transparency through ongoing projects.
• Leading work to build an ambitious medium-term plan for how we further enhance market transparency.
• Working with others to ensure we have a comprehensive and engaging communication plan to gather user feedback and raise awareness internally and externally of our information.
• Drive data quality across key datasets (organisations, securities, disclosures), embedding robust data management processes and supporting the shift to a more proactive, data-led regulatory approach.
• Support Market Oversight initiatives, improving effectiveness and efficiency through better use of technology and data and contributing to wider cross-team work.

Skills required:

Minimum:

• Prior experience of analysing and manipulating data (e.g. using SQL), including ensuring good data quality and data modelling.
• Proven experience establishing and driving forward ambitious technology change.
• Demonstrable experience and a basic understanding of financial markets and regulation.

Essential:

• Having a creative and ambitious mindset to develop new ideas and bring others on the journey.
• Being able to communicate in a clear and concise manner with a range of external and internal stakeholders.
• An ability to synthesise information and different views to think critically and make informed decisions.
• An ability to provide leadership and influence in groups where stakeholders come from diverse backgrounds and have different areas of experience and expertise.
• Be a highly organised and proactive individual and have experience in coordinating several workstreams at once ensuring issues are effectively prioritised and progressed on a timely basis.

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 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: 7th July at 11:59pm.
• CV Review/Shortlist: 9th July.
• Interviews: w/c 20th July (Please note the interviews will include a case study and a competency-based section).
• 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.