Sensitive Financial Intelligence Team Lead

Job title: Sensitive Financial Intelligence Team Lead (FTC until 18/10/2027)
Division: Enforcement & Market Oversight
Department: Specialist Intelligence Department

Team: Data Exploitation

• Salary: This role will be based in London only with salary ranging from £66,600 to £86,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
• This role is graded as: Lead Associate - Regulatory
• Your recruitment contact is Riley Fox at riley.fox@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.

Enforcement & Market Oversight (EMO) is responsible for the FCA's responsibilities for market monitoring, delivery of the functions of the UK Listing Authority (UKLA) and the investigation and prosecution of misconduct using the whole spectrum of criminal, civil and administrative sanctions and remedies against firms and individuals.

Sitting within the Enforcement & Market Oversight Division, the Enforcement Intelligence and Specialist Services (EISS) Directorate provides strategic expertise, intelligence capabilities, and operational support across enforcement functions, strengthening the FCA's ability to detect harm, deliver effective investigations, and uphold market integrity.

Sitting within the Enforcement Intelligence and Specialist Services Directorate, the Specialist Intelligence Department (SID) delivers advanced intelligence capabilities through four expert teams that generate strategic insights into economic crime, proactively detect threats, and collaborate across the FCA and with external partners to prevent serious financial harm.

Role responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of innovative approaches to exploiting large-scale financial intelligence datasets, identifying emerging financial crime threats, high-harm actors, networks and systemic vulnerabilities that present significant risk to consumers and markets.
• Identify opportunities where financial intelligence can provide unique regulatory, supervisory and enforcement value, improving the FCA's understanding of emerging risks, criminal behaviours, market vulnerabilities and opportunities for disruption.
• Lead, grow and performance manage a multidisciplinary team of intelligence and data specialists, fostering a culture of innovation, curiosity, experimentation and continuous learning to develop advanced exploitation capabilities.
• Oversee the production of high-quality, data-led intelligence assessments and operational packages, translating complex analytical outputs into actionable insights that support strategic and tactical interventions by internal and external partners.

Skills required

Minimum

• Experiencing of managing and developing staff to deliver high-quality practical and exploratory analysis
• Experience of significant project delivery and oversight of acquisition and exploitation of intelligence data
• Experience of working in at least one of: intelligence analysis (e.g., OSINT, SOCMINT), investigations, and/or financial services sector; of particular interest, in any of these areas, would be experience of economic or financial crime issues.

Essential

• Excellent communication skills, capable of delivering both strategic and tactical briefings to a range of stakeholders of differing seniority.
• Demonstrable interpersonal skills, to engage with a variety of internal and external partners, setting own direction of engagement and leading projects to improve stakeholder business processes and workflows.
• Able to articulate how data can be used to drive both tactical and strategic decision-making, spotting opportunities where a data-led approach can drive better outcomes.
• Excellent workload management of own workload and the management of a team of associate analysts.

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Colleagues spend a minimum of 50% of their working time in the office each month (60% for Directors and Executive Directors) across our London, Leeds and Edinburgh offices
• 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

For a full list of our benefits, and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page.

Our values and culture

Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that's free from discrimination and bias, celebrates difference, and supports colleagues to deliver at their best. 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.

If you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition, your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support.

We welcome diverse working styles and aim to find flexible solutions that suit both the role and individual needs, including options like part-time and job sharing where applicable.

Disability confident: our hiring approach

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role's key requirements.

Useful information and timelines

Timeline:

• Job advert closing: 18th October at 11:59pm
• CV Review/Shortlist: 20th October
• Interview: w/c 2nd November
• 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.

SC Clearance is required for this role (SC Guidance) - you will currently hold or will be required to obtain Security Check (SC) level vetting