Strategic Assessment Intelligence Analyst (FTC until 31/03/2027)

Overview

This role is graded as: Senior Associate - Regulatory

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

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 expertise, intelligence capabilities, and operational support across enforcement functions, strengthening 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 Fighting 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.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct strategic analysis and horizon scanning across the financial crime landscape, assessing internal and external threats to support informed decision-making by FCA senior leaders.
• Contextualise, synthesise and summarise intelligence from a wide range of sources to inform analytical assessments and threat understanding with an ability to identify emerging threats, risks and vulnerabilities through comprehensive analysis to support strategic and tactical prioritisation.
• 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.
• Generate and gather all-source intelligence to detect and understand financial crime threats affecting the UK financial services sector, including money laundering, fraud, sanctions evasion, AI and other technological developments.
• Develop and deliver strategic assessments and intelligence reports tailored to internal stakeholder requirements, adapting outputs where required to raise awareness among external partners.
• Produce high-quality analytical products for diverse audiences, selecting appropriate formats, presentation styles and communication methods to convey insights effectively.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, external partners and the wider analytical community to enhance threat understanding, share methodologies, review analytical outputs and identify opportunities for joint multi-agency threat assessments with UK and international impact.
• Contribute to a supportive and innovative team environment through peer reviews, knowledge sharing, relationship building and the development of analytical techniques.

Skills and qualifications:

• Minimum: Demonstrable ability to analyse complex intelligence and data from a range of sources, drawing evidence-based conclusions and communicating findings clearly through the production of strategic intelligence assessments.
• Secure and demonstrable understanding of applying the PHIA Common Analytical Standards.
• Prior experience in a role that required you to be well-versed in the financial services sector and/or UK Economic Crime landscape including current national priorities.
• Essential: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including proficiency in Microsoft packages.
• Experience of effectively managing internal stakeholder and external partner relationships.
• Ability to work independently manage conflicting priorities and deliver results on time with minimal supervision.
• Skilled in delivering analytical insights across grades.
• Experience of working collaboratively in cross-functional teams to deliver intelligence-led projects to progress customer needs.
• 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.

Benefits: 25 days annual leave.