Senior Supervisor - Principal Trading Firms - #1785816

Department - Wholesale Market Intermediaries

Division – Principal Trading Firms

Salary - National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £52,400 to £77,000 and London £57,700 to £85,000 per annum (Salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

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We are recruiting for a Senior Supervisor (Senior Associate) to join the Principal Trading Firms (PTF) supervision team at the FCA to supervise algorithmic trading firms. The team sits within the Wholesale Market Intermediaries department at the FCA; the department plays a key role in supervising UK secondary markets. As a senior associate in the team, you will play an important role delivering the FCA’s supervisory strategy for this important portfolio of firms.

The PTFs supervision team supervises around 60 principal trading firms. These firms derive the majority proportion of their revenue from trading as principal. The portfolio includes algorithmic trading firms, which could trade high frequency, and commodity trading firms, which trade in commodity markets. PTFs play a valuable role in wholesale financial markets. They can have a significant impact on liquidity provision and price formation due to their large trading footprint and trading strategies. They are often at the cutting edge of technological developments in financial markets, helping to drive innovation and efficiency. As a result, PTF activities convey particular responsibilities to the UK and its financial markets

If you have experience within wholesale financial markets, can demonstrate strong use of judgement and have excellent communication skills, this could be the role for you.

What will you be doing?

As a senior supervisor in the team, you will work closely with the wider team and the manager, designing and delivering the supervisory strategy for the portfolio. This includes designing workstreams that help to advance the supervisory priorities for the portfolio, seeking senior level agreement for their execution and steering them through to completion.

You will also directly supervise a range of algorithmic trading firms, taking responsibility of supervisory cases across a range of topics, including around market abuse and market resilience as well as firms’ prudential resilience and their algorithmic controls. You will efficiently manage a variety of complex reactive casework including whistleblowing cases. You will work effectively with internal and external stakeholders, including senior individuals at principal trading firms, to resolve these cases and set clear expectations to firms. In addition, you will support other team members by providing input to their supervision strategies, and develop their supervision skills and technical know-how, using your skills and experience.

What will you get from the role?

The role offers a challenging, interesting and varied portfolio of work, collaborating with colleagues from across the FCA. The successful candidate will get the opportunity to make a real difference to standards in a fast-moving, innovative and important part of the wholesale financial markets and to rapidly develop their supervisory skills. The role offers the chance to develop skills in financial services supervision and build connections across all key FCA functions and with external stakeholders

Which skills are required?

We are a Disability Confident Employer; therefore, disabled people or individuals with long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. (To learn more about the Disability Confident Scheme Click Here)

Minimum

• Prior experience of wholesale financial markets and regulation
• Prior experience of managing internal and external stakeholders at various levels
• Knowledge of algorithmic trading firms’ business models and risks arising from them
  
  

Essential

• Experience in exercising judgement in complex situations
• Experience managing multiple challenges at one time
• Prior experience analysing data and general financial literacy
• Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues in the team and across the FCA
• Excellent organisational, analysis and problem-solving skills
• Curiosity and motivation to work in a fast-paced environment
• The ability to communicate with impact and influence at senior levels (in both verbal and written form)
  
  

Our Values & Diversity

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and our ambition is to cultivate a culture 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.

Within the workplace you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance and support our diversity ambitions.

Did you know? 50% of our Executive Committee were the first in their family to attend university.

Benefits Of Working At The FCA

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working (work from home up to 60% of your time)
• 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 also have a competitive flexible benefits scheme which gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle.

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 can explore what might work best for both sides.

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Application Support

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If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition requiring changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter using the details below and they will be happy to discuss this further with you.

Useful Information and Timeline

• This role is graded as Senior Associate - Regulatory
• Advert Closing Date: Sunday 13th July
• CV Review/Shortlist: Tuesday 15th July
• First Round Interview: W/C 21st July
  
  

Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.

Got a question?

If you are interested in learning more about the role, please contact: [email protected]

Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via email will not be accepted.