Strategic Reporting Lead (12-Month Fixed Term Contract)

at  Financial Conduct Authority

Strategic Reporting Lead (12-Month Fixed Term Contract)
Salary: National – ranging from £57,600 – £72,000 and London from £63,300 – £80,000 per annum
Are you a strategic thinker that wants exposure to executive level decision making?
The team/department
The Strategy Division is responsible for informing the FCA’s strategic thinking, its approach to corporate prioritisation and providing oversight of implementation of the strategy, monitoring and measuring progress against its strategic outcomes.
In our 3-year Strategy, we committed to report publicly on our outcomes for consumers and in wholesale markets using key metrics to measure progress over time
strategic outcomes and metrics
.
This role will progress our continued internal and external reporting against our outcome metrics as well as to help to shape our future approach to measuring our performance.

What you will be doing (the role)

• Drive and facilitate the effective measurement, monitoring and reporting of the FCA’s strategic commitments/outcomes, providing meaningful reporting to our executive committee, the Board and externally of our organisational performance against our strategy. This includes mentoring and overseeing the work of more junior members of the department
• Play a key role in the development of the next phase of the FCA’s Strategy. In doing this you will work with the stakeholders across the business and provide advice to senior leaders on further development of our approach to measuring performance and reporting, including identifying appropriate outcome metrics
• Provide regular reporting to Executive committees, the Board and external publications on our performance against our strategic outcomes
• Develop and maintain efficient processes underpinning reporting of data and insight
• Facilitate agreement of roles and responsibilities across internal stakeholders (including senior levels) and ongoing ways of working across the organisation to support effective measurement
• Developing our future approach to performance measurement, this includes providing support/advice on setting outcomes and performance metrics, including causal chains and logic models
• Contribute to the technical leadership to help continuously improve our approach

What you will get from the role

• Your work will be both varied and challenging. You will have a rare opportunity to understand and help shape the FCA’s strategic direction
• You and your outputs will have a high exposure across the FCA. You will work closely with a wide range of internal colleagues, including senior FCA decision makers
• You will have excellent opportunities to develop knowledge of the breadth of work across the FCA and how strategic decisions are made
• You will contribute to setting high quality strategic outcomes that help shape the running of the organisation
• You will work in a supportive and intellectually challenging environment, with a strong focus on continuous improvement

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.

• Previous experience of evaluation, setting and measuring outcomes
• Proven strategic ability through driving change and challenging existing processes
• Evidence of building relationships with peers, specialists and senior leaders outside of your team

Essential

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to communicate with clarity, simplicity and impact
• Evidence of strong analytical skills, with the ability to present and make logical and timely decisions, cutting through complexity and seeing the big picture
• Motivated by challenges and being able to respond positively to them. Flexible approach to change and an ability to adapt working styles accordingly
• Ability to build rapport, constructive relationships, make a strong personal impact and persuade with well-reasoned arguments. Ability to present, challenge and influence (at all levels)
• Can show capability to manage a variety of competing tasks and issues, prioritising appropriately and escalating where necessary
• Ability to work well under pressure and deliver work to agreed standard within tight deadlines
• Experience of performance measurement, including indicator selection, direction/target setting, reporting, developing monitoring and evaluation or performance monitoring

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 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 midnight on Wednesday 10th July 2024.
This role is graded as Lead Associate – Regulatory.
This role is available on a 12-month fixed term basis to external candidates or as a 12-month secondment to internal candidates.
We are recruiting for three Lead Associates in the Strategy department; your application may also be considered across all roles.
Got a question?

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

• For internal applicants, please contact Melanie Dubock at

Melanie.Dubock@fca.org.uk

• For external applicants, please contact Beth Haydon at

Beth.Haydon@fca.org.uk
What to expect from our interview process
The process will involve a technical/competency-based interview and potential case study exercise with potential for a follow up informal 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

What you will be doing (the role)

• Drive and facilitate the effective measurement, monitoring and reporting of the FCA’s strategic commitments/outcomes, providing meaningful reporting to our executive committee, the Board and externally of our organisational performance against our strategy. This includes mentoring and overseeing the work of more junior members of the department
• Play a key role in the development of the next phase of the FCA’s Strategy. In doing this you will work with the stakeholders across the business and provide advice to senior leaders on further development of our approach to measuring performance and reporting, including identifying appropriate outcome metrics
• Provide regular reporting to Executive committees, the Board and external publications on our performance against our strategic outcomes
• Develop and maintain efficient processes underpinning reporting of data and insight
• Facilitate agreement of roles and responsibilities across internal stakeholders (including senior levels) and ongoing ways of working across the organisation to support effective measurement
• Developing our future approach to performance measurement, this includes providing support/advice on setting outcomes and performance metrics, including causal chains and logic models
• Contribute to the technical leadership to help continuously improve our approac

What you will get from the role

• Your work will be both varied and challenging. You will have a rare opportunity to understand and help shape the FCA’s strategic direction
• You and your outputs will have a high exposure across the FCA. You will work closely with a wide range of internal colleagues, including senior FCA decision makers
• You will have excellent opportunities to develop knowledge of the breadth of work across the FCA and how strategic decisions are made
• You will contribute to setting high quality strategic outcomes that help shape the running of the organisation
• You will work in a supportive and intellectually challenging environment, with a strong focus on continuous improvemen

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.

• Previous experience of evaluation, setting and measuring outcomes
• Proven strategic ability through driving change and challenging existing processes
• Evidence of building relationships with peers, specialists and senior leaders outside of your tea

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

• For internal applicants, please contact Melanie Dubock at