Senior Automation Analyst

at  Financial Conduct Authority

Senior Automation Analyst
Salary: London from £56,400 to £65,000
Do you want to help the FCA protects consumers from harm more effectively by designing, managing and implementing process automations?
The team/department
As part of our commitment to deliver the Digital Unified Intelligence Environment (DUIE), the Digital Intelligence Solutions (DIS) department is forming a team called “Enabling Intelligent Automation”, responsible for the effective rollout of the Decision Hub 2.0 service that pioneers the use of automation in our response to information, intelligence and data from a variety of sources.
The successful candidate will join the current team to work with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across the FCA to and be responsible for automation implementation from understanding current processes, designing improvements and leading the build using bespoke development tools.
DIS is a department within the Intelligence & Digital (I&D) directorate as part of the wider Data, Technology & Innovation (DTI) division.

What you will be doing (the role)

• Promote and seek out automation opportunities by listening and understanding how colleagues across the entire FCA are using intelligence and data in their day-to-day functions
• Design and author automations or computational business rules using IBM Business Automation Manager, identifying and resolving data connection or modelling issues when they arise
• Collaborating with a network of intelligence/data analysts, scientists and developers across the FCA to explore innovative ideas to use existing datasets or to surface new ones
• Coordinate the release of new automations with stakeholders, ensuring the appropriate level of testing and governance approval is obtained to provide the seamless transition to business as usual (BAU)

What you will get from the role

• You will play a vital part of DUIE and deliver end-to-end data analytics solutions that supports the FCA’s data-led approach to regulation, helping the organisation be more effective in meeting its statutory objectives
• You will be involved in stimulating, innovative and experimental work that will push you to use your data skills to bring about clear business impact
• You will gain a wider appreciation of the multi-faceted organisation that is the FCA and build a wider network of data and business SMEs

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 Criteria

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.

• Excellent interpersonal skills to listen, understand and work with SMEs to document existing business processes/how decisions are made across the organisation
• Strong analytics skills to identify and resolve the root cause of complex data issues

Essential Criteria

• Proficiency in IBM Business Automation Manager/Business Central or similar platforms to design and author automations using BPMN and/or DMN Or proficiency in implementing or using dataflows between different systems, such as AWS EDP & ECS, Apigee and Salesforce
• Substantial experience of leading data analytics projects that deliver to time, budget and specification that brings about positive organisational change
• Data engineering experience to design and model data ingestion, ensuring adherence to data quality standards and is interoperable with other datasets
• Highly effective communication skills to work closely with colleagues of all levels and across disciplines, especially to deal with resistance that may arise from change management with empathy and sensitivity
• Outstanding organisation skills to balance and coordinate between multiple projects with different stakeholders effectively
• Has a curious mindset to question and enthuse stakeholders with improvement recommendations to default data or business processes
• Willingness to learn, as well as support the development of both junior and senior colleagues in the team

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.
Useful information
Applications for this role close at 23:59 on 24th June 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 Michael Wood,
michael.wood@fca.org.uk
For external applicants, please contact Asha Gladis,
asha.gladis@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. The final stage will include a technical case study and competency-based questions.
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

What you will be doing (the role)

• Promote and seek out automation opportunities by listening and understanding how colleagues across the entire FCA are using intelligence and data in their day-to-day functions
• Design and author automations or computational business rules using IBM Business Automation Manager, identifying and resolving data connection or modelling issues when they arise
• Collaborating with a network of intelligence/data analysts, scientists and developers across the FCA to explore innovative ideas to use existing datasets or to surface new ones
• Coordinate the release of new automations with stakeholders, ensuring the appropriate level of testing and governance approval is obtained to provide the seamless transition to business as usual (BAU

What you will get from the role

• You will play a vital part of DUIE and deliver end-to-end data analytics solutions that supports the FCA’s data-led approach to regulation, helping the organisation be more effective in meeting its statutory objectives
• You will be involved in stimulating, innovative and experimental work that will push you to use your data skills to bring about clear business impact
• You will gain a wider appreciation of the multi-faceted organisation that is the FCA and build a wider network of data and business SME

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.

• Excellent interpersonal skills to listen, understand and work with SMEs to document existing business processes/how decisions are made across the organisation
• Strong analytics skills to identify and resolve the root cause of complex data issue