Professional Business Support, Law Policy & International

at  Financial Conduct Authority

Business Professional Support - Law and International
Salary: National ranging from £25,000 to £29,150 and London £27,500 to £32,000 per annum
Are you interested in an exciting opportunity to support multiple teams in the Law, Policy & International department (LPI)?
About the team
LPI is a friendly and welcoming department. We provide legal advice on a wide range of FCA Enforcement issues, including international investigations and policy development. The important work we do helps the FCA tackle financial crime and prevent harm to consumers.
What you will be doing
As the Professional Support to multiple team managers, you will play a key role in contributing to the smooth and effective running of the department.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing diaries for multiple managers, remaining flexible to short-notice changes
• Co-ordinating attendance of external meetings, including meeting room bookings, travel, accommodation, and expenses
• Managing joiner/mover/leaver IT requirements and resolving ad-hoc issues or queries on behalf of the managers
• Working alongside local Personal Assistants (to the Heads of Department and the Director) to coordinate the department’s administrative activities, including ensuring there is adequate administrative cover

What will you get from the role?

• The opportunity to work in a busy, challenging, and engaging environment with a broad and varied workload
• Involvement in a high-profile area of the business, dealing with highly topical issues
• Interaction with a range of internal and external contacts
• The opportunity to establish and build a good network of working relationships with colleagues at all levels across the FCA
• Training and personal development

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’ll have
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.

Minimum

• Experience of strong diary management using Microsoft Outlook
• Experience managing key administrative tasks using Microsoft Word, Excel & PowerPoint

Essential

• Sound knowledge of Outlook or other similar packages, and the ability to get up to speed quickly with new systems
• Excellent spelling, grammar, and written communication skills
• Ability to work on own initiative, prioritising, working under pressure and to tight deadlines whilst maintaining accuracy
• Flexibility to adapt & react to changing circumstances, reprioritising as necessary
• Ability to handle staff confidential & sensitive data with a high degree of discretion, maintaining confidentiality at all times
• Ability to build good working relationships & networks
• Strong oral communication skills, in particular an ability to summarise key ‘need to know’ issues in a timely fashion

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 men, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our Professional Business Support 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.
Multilocation
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 the 27th June 2024
This role is graded as Professional Business Support – Corporate
Got a question?
If you are interested in learning more about the role please contact:
For internal applicants, please contact Katie Ayling at
katie.ayling@fca.org.uk
For external applicants, please contact Chhavi Bartaria at
chhavi.bartaria@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 first stage competency-based interview.

Recruitment Timeline:

• Closing Date: 27th June 2024
• First Round interviews: w/c 8th July

Please make the recruiter aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.
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.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing diaries for multiple managers, remaining flexible to short-notice changes
• Co-ordinating attendance of external meetings, including meeting room bookings, travel, accommodation, and expenses
• Managing joiner/mover/leaver IT requirements and resolving ad-hoc issues or queries on behalf of the managers
• Working alongside local Personal Assistants (to the Heads of Department and the Director) to coordinate the department’s administrative activities, including ensuring there is adequate administrative cove

What will you get from the role?

• The opportunity to work in a busy, challenging, and engaging environment with a broad and varied workload
• Involvement in a high-profile area of the business, dealing with highly topical issues
• Interaction with a range of internal and external contacts
• The opportunity to establish and build a good network of working relationships with colleagues at all levels across the FCA
• Training and personal developmen