As a Crypto Supervisor for Market Abuse at the Financial Conduct Authority, you'll join the Secondary Market Oversight department within Enforcement & Market Oversight. You'll work with the Market Abuse Surveillance Supervision (MASS) team to supervise firms' and trading venues' market abuse surveillance systems, ensuring that market participants have effective controls in place to detect and report potential market abuse. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract role graded as Senior Associate – Regulatory.
What you'll do
- Assess firms' and trading venues' market abuse surveillance systems and controls across cryptoasset and traditional markets
- Deliver formal communications to internal and external stakeholders
- Support the upskilling of colleagues across the department through cryptoasset training, helping build readiness for the new regime
- Keep Senior Market Oversight management informed of relevant developments and advise where appropriate
What you bring
- Practical experience in UK financial markets, gained in a financial services firm, trading venue, financial services consultancy firm, or regulator
- Demonstrable working knowledge of the mechanics of traded markets and market abuse typologies, gained through prior experience
- Understanding of the UK Market Abuse Regulation (UK MAR)
- Understanding of the UK cryptoasset regime, specifically the proposed Market Abuse Regime for Cryptoassets (MARC) and Admissions and Disclosures (A&D) as per CP25/41
- Experience identifying and analysing key risks of harm from a range of information
- Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex events clearly and succinctly
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for learning and sharing knowledge
- A proactive, self-starter approach to acquiring skills and completing the job
- Demonstrable experience of compliance and surveillance of traded products
What we offer
- Salary ranging from £53,000 to £69,000 (National, Edinburgh & Leeds) or £59,200 to £76,000 (London), based on skills and experience
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Non-contributory pension of 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
About the Financial Conduct Authority
The FCA regulates financial services firms in the UK to keep financial markets fair, thriving, and effective. The Secondary Market Oversight department discharges the FCA's responsibility to combat market abuse in secondary markets and monitors markets to support market function and protect market integrity.