• Job Description

  Req#: JR0015428

  Senior Intelligence Analyst

  Salary: National ranging from £51,200 to £56,800 and London from £56,400 to £62,000 - salary offered will be based on skills and experience

  Are you looking to join a team where you will play an integral role in the FCA’s understanding and analysis of serious harm?

  The team/department

  This role within the Intelligence Development and Analysis Team (IDAT) will play an integral role in the FCA’s understanding and analysis of serious harm, and its ability to take appropriate action. IDAT will be focused on proactively and reactively identifying and analysing both closed source sensitive intelligence and publicly available open-source data. This material will be used to support ongoing FCA Enforcement investigations and cases in Supervision and Authorisations supporting both criminal and regulatory outcomes.

  What you will be doing (the role)

  • Work alongside the Enforcement Triage and Assessment Team to understand the intelligence implications for complex issues identified by the work of other areas within the FCA

  • Collect and analyse intelligence from multiple sources, to produce tactical and evidential products (including profiles, reports, communications data analysis and assessments) to help shape the direction of our Enforcement, Supervision and Authorisations team investigations in the criminal, dual track, and regulatory/civil space, providing advice on complex intelligence opportunities and techniques IDAT’s stakeholders

  • Appropriate handling and dissemination of sensitive intelligence

  • Building and maintaining effective working relationships with colleagues in other business areas within the FCA and with external stakeholders

  • Sharing knowledge through mentoring and training, acting as SPOC and SME to more junior members of staff to help develop capability in intelligence analysis/FCA ways of working

  • Contribute to tasking, co-ordination, and prioritisation function that sits across intelligence, delivering outputs, communicating with stakeholders to shape program and contribute to discussions on the impact of complex emerging risks and existing enforcement cases

  What will the candidate get from the role?

  • The chance to join a friendly, enthusiastic, and committed department, where you will get to work on a varied range of issues, working with Enforcement colleagues, law enforcement agencies regulators, industry bodies and government agencies

  • To develop knowledge of FCA and financial crime issues

  • An opportunity to make a significant contribution to tackling financial crime with the FCA

  • An opportunity to extend ones working knowledge of UK markets and regulatory landscape therein

  • The opportunity to use your judgement to make conclusions at pace, stand by them, and learn from experiences

  Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.

  Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

  • 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays

  • Private healthcare with Bupa

  • A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)

  • Life assurance of eight times your basic salary

  • Income protection

  We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.

  The skills and experience you will have

  Minimum

  We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role.

  • Proven track record in tactical intelligence case support, preferably including communications data and intelligence analysis, ideally in a financial crime or regulatory context

  • Practical experience of National Intelligence Model (NIM) and intelligence products to support tactical and strategic intelligence requirements

  Essential

  • Experience in intelligence investigation and intelligence collection techniques

  • Experience in analysing intelligence and evidence to reach conclusions and make judgements along with the skills to present the outcome of that analysis clearly and effectively, orally and in writing

  • Ability to handle, process and analyse a wide range of data, including communications data, to provide direction to instigate and drive an investigation forward using intelligence products

  • Proficiency in storing, sharing, handling, and using intelligence (including sensitive intelligence) effectively and securely, including managing records systems and tools

  • Strong IT capabilities including the use of visualisation and analytical tools (e.g., EIA, Chorus, Clue, Microsoft products and PND) and open-source internet (OSINT and SOCMINT) to deliver outputs

  • Ability to work on your own whilst managing a variety of tasks and issues, prioritising appropriately, delivering outcomes, and escalating where necessary with the ability to challenge intelligently and constructively, exercising judgement, and upholding those judgements where necessary and appropriate

  • Working with minimal supervision and on own initiative to an extremely high standard and accuracy, and only seeking management guidance where necessary

  About the FCA

  The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found here.

  The FCA's Values & Diversity

  Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. 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.

  The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our Senior Associate role.

  Flexible working

  We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking.

  Multi-location

  As part of the FCA’s on-going commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, or London offices. This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from.

  Useful information

  Applications for this role close at 23:59 on Sunday 28th July 2024

  This role is graded as Senior Associate - Regulatory

  Got a question?

  If you are interested in learning more about the role, please contact:

  For internal applicants, please contact Louise Nash at Louise.Nash@fca.org.uk

  For external applicants, please contact Beth Haydon at Beth.Haydon@fca.org.uk

  What to expect from our interview process

  The assessment process consists of an initial screening call with one our Recruitment Partners. If successful, you will be invited to attend a competency-based interview.

  Application support

  We want to remove any possible barriers and are committed to providing a wide range of reasonable adjustments so that you can keep the focus on your conversations and be at your best.

  If you have an accessibility requirement, disability, or condition that means you might require changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter to discuss this further. Our aim is to make your application as easy and comfortable as possible, and your recruiter will be happy to work with you to make any necessary arrangements where possible.

  Security Clearance/Vetting

  The successful candidate will hold or will be required to obtain Security Clearance (SC) level vetting.

  Please note that all applications must be submitted through our online portal, applications sent via email will not be accepted.

• About the company

  The Financial Conduct Authority is a financial regulatory body in the United Kingdom, but operates independently of the UK Government, and is financed by charging fees to members of the financial services industry.

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