Division - Human Resources
Department - Resourcing and Talent
Salary - National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £43,300 to £53,000 and London £46,400 to £58,000 per annum (Salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
About the FCA
The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.
The Resourcing and Talent Department supports our People objectives by attracting, identifying and selecting the quality, quantity and diversity of talent required to match our ambitions. The Talent Team is responsible for our overall approach to talent management and all accelerated development programmes up to Head of Department level. We work in partnership with the business to support organisation wide talent management practices.
This role will report to the Talent Manager and will be highly visible across the business and HR. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a high performing HR division, which will enable the FCA to deliver its priorities by driving cultural change and increasing organisational effectiveness, whilst supporting HR delivery.
What you will be doing
We are looking for a motivated individual who has a passion for talent strategy, internal talent management and development to support colleagues to have meaningful and fulfilling careers at the FCA. This is a unique opportunity to join an organization undergoing transformational change and to embed our approach to internal talent management, ensuring we continue to meet future business need. You will work in close partnership with a variety of teams within HR and the wider business to ensure delivery of our internal talent strategy and approach.
What does the role involve?
- In partnership with the Talent Team and colleagues across HR, help embed our approach to talent management. In this context, talent management refers to the activities and interventions that are in place to enable and empower colleagues across all levels to grow their careers with us in line with their aspirations and business need
- Enhance our offering; review our current focus and embed talent management activities across the business, such as talent reviews, accelerated/high potential talent development programmes and the career progression proposition we offer colleagues
- Develop strong working relationships with key senior business stakeholders
- Drive a cohesive approach to talent development across HR teams and the business, including our accelerated development programmes
- Scope, design and develop an approach to internal mobility
- Drafting and delivering presentations and executive papers
- Manage supplier relationships and effectively challenge when necessary
What will the candidate get from the role?
- The opportunity to lead a programme of work to continue to progress and embed the strategy for internal talent management and development
- The opportunity to continue to drive talent collaboration across HR, and most specifically across the Resourcing & Talent department
- A chance to build strong relationships across HR and with key business stakeholders to drive the talent agenda
- The opportunity to build upon your existing skills, expertise and knowledge, and develop your career and the careers of other colleagues
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, who best meet the minimum criteria for a role.
- Significant experience providing talent development subject matter expertise, supporting experienced colleagues career progression and retention
- Experience in designing and delivering organisational level strategic talent management interventions (not recruitment interventions)
- Experience delivering talent programmes which support accelerated development of high potential experienced colleagues
Essential criteria
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment needing to multi-task
- Able to adapt style and approach to meet the needs of different audiences including senior stakeholders
- Strong teamwork skills - collaborates and participates constructively to achieve results
- Effective project management skills with the ability to break down complex projects identifying risks and appropriate mitigation
- Experienced in making data driven recommendations that are benchmarked externally
- Management of external suppliers ensuring effective service delivery
About the FCA
The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 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 12th March 2025
- This role is graded as Senior Associate - Corporate
- Interviews will take place from w/c 17th March 2025
Got a question?
If you are interested in learning more about the role please contact:
For internal applicants, please contact Linda Bradley at [email protected]
For external applicants, please contact Ifrah Azam at [email protected]
What to expect from our interview process
If your application is successful you will be invited to complete 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.
Please note that all applications must be submitted through our online portal, applications sent via email will not be accepted.
Top Skills
What We Do
We work to ensure financial markets work well for individuals, for businesses and for the economy as a whole.
We do this by:
- regulating the conduct of approximately 50,000 businesses
- prudentially supervising 48,000 firms
- setting specific standards for around 18,000 firms
We were set up on 1 April 2013, taking over conduct and relevant prudential regulation from the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
Our Head Office is based in London, and we work across the UK, from our office in Edinburgh and via colleagues in Belfast and Cardiff.
Firms and individuals must be authorised or registered by us to carry out certain activities. Before we grant authorisation, firms must demonstrate that they meet a range of requirements. We then supervise these firms to make sure they continue to meet our standards and rules after they’re authorised. If firms and individuals fail to meet these standards, we have a range of enforcement powers we can use.
We work alongside the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), the prudential regulator of around 1,500 banks, building societies, credit unions, insurers and major investment firms.
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