Financial Crime Senior Data Analyst

Job title: Financial Crime Senior Data Analyst
Division: Supervision, Policy & Competition
Department: Financial Crime Market Interventions

• Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £53,800 to £67,200 and London from £59,200 to £73,800 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

• This role is graded as: Senior Associate - Regulatory

• Your Internal recruitment contact is Isabelle Groves via Isabelle.groves@fca.org.uk

• Your external recruitment contact is Tahir Khan via tahir.khan1@fca.org.uk. Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted.

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.  

SPC oversees firms and individuals (supervision), creates and reviews the rules by which they operate (policy) and identifies and remedies ineffective competition in markets (competition).

Sitting in the Specialist Directorate, the Financial Crime Market Intervention (FCMI) department provides the FCA with specialist financial crime expertise to support its strategic objective by helping to minimise the risk of regulated businesses being used for purposes connected with financial crime.

The department is comprised of four Financial Crime Specialist Supervision teams, a Sanctions Supervision Team, a Fraud Supervision Team and a Risk Data & Strategy Team (RDS). Working together with others inside and outside the FCA, we deal with issues involving money laundering, financial sanctions, fraud, and bribery and corruption. This role is in the RDS team.

Role responsibilities:

• Work on strategic data projects in developing our data and supervision capabilities to help us remain a leader in financial crime supervision

• Access and use unique data sets across the FCA to help us stop the UK Financial Sector being used to facilitate Financial Crime

• Conduct data analysis using various tools available and deliver output that meets financial crime supervision needs

• Collaborate with a community of data analysts and data scientists across the organisation, including the FCAs Innovation division

Skills required:

Minimum:

• Demonstrated experience as a data analyst or a business analyst

• Experience in creating data visualisation dashboards (e.g., Tableau)

• Experience of using Excel and of using advance SQL or other data analytics tools to interrogate and manipulate data

Essential:

• Effective communication skills to present the outcome of data analysis clearly and effectively, orally and in writing to a variety of stakeholders including non-technical

• Experience of working to deliver projects to tight deadlines and able to show a high degree of initiative

• The ability to work effectively with a variety of stakeholders, both internal and external to Financial Crime Specialist Supervision and the FCA, and to provide constructive challenge as necessary

• Demonstrated ability to lead challenging meetings with senior level individuals with confidence and credibility

• The ability to deal with conflicting priorities, to prioritise effectively and deliver results on time with minimal supervision

• A motivated collaborator, with an Imaginative and innovative problem-solving mind-set and a positive approach and outlook to their work

• The confidence to make considered judgements and timely decisions, to stand by their decisions and learn from experience

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

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