Peer to Peer and Crowdfunding Portfolios Manager

Division – Consumer Investments
 

Department – Investment Platforms and SIPP Operators

Salary - National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £67,100 to £87,000 and London £73,700 to £95,000 per annum (Salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.

The Investment Platforms, SIPP Operators, Peer to Peer (P2P) and Proactive Department (IPSO) in Consumer Investments (CI) covers a wide span of portfolio supervision, fixed and flexible firm supervision, proactive visits. project and multi-firm work. You would play a vital role in helping to deliver our vision across 6,000 firms that operate in the sector.  CI’s vision is that consumers can: 

• Invest with confidence and understand the risks they are taking  

• Access & identify investments that suit their circumstances and attitude to risk 

• Be protected from scams and fraud

• Get the right advice or support to invest, should they want it 

We are hiring a Manager to be responsible for our Peer to Peer and Crowdfunding portfolios.

What will you be doing?
You will work closely with colleagues in IPSO and CI to promote growth and innovation in the P2P and Crowdfunding sector alongside reducing and preventing harm to consumers, financial crime and by ensuring consumer interests are central to firms in this sector.

• Managing and developing a team to ensure that excellent standards of performance are delivered on a busy caseload of reactive and proactive supervision cases with a focus on our P2P and Crowdfunding portfolio priorities and CI Strategy

• Using your problem-solving skills to deliver innovative, strategic, assertive, data-led interventions using the FCA’s full range of soft and formal powers to ensure good consumer outcomes

• Creating an environment where the team demonstrates assertiveness and curiosity and works with firms to ensure sustainable growth

• Briefing FCA senior management and help driving external engagement and communications

• Being able to work flexibly and engage colleagues across divisions to achieve good customer outcomes in firm interventions and supervision

• Building and maintaining good collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders

What will you get from the role?

• A stimulating and exciting environment with varied and interesting work that delivers for the public good with ability to see real tangible outcomes 

• A unique insight into the workings of firms across the sector and the opportunity to influence firms' senior management and behaviour for better consumer outcomes

• High profile, high paced work, with exposure to senior stakeholders at the FCA

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

• Experience of project managing

• Experience of line managing or coaching / mentoring colleagues overseeing the work of others

• Experience of either firm supervision, or the investment sector

Essential

• Proactive, driven, organised, forward looking with excellent coordination skills and able to adapt/change course where needed for departmental priorities

• Excellent internal and external stakeholder management skills, with an ability to build strong relationships

• Ability to consider complex information and develop an appropriate supervisory strategy to tackle the harm, particularly under pressure

• Ability to make good judgements, to prioritise effectively and to adapt approach, communications, and working styles quickly and successfully

• Willingness to learn and develop, taking on new responsibilities

• Managing teams effectively, developing talent and creating an inclusive environment that enables them to perform at their best

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.

The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisation. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, minority ethnic, disabled, and neurodivergent candidates for our manager role.

Benefits of working at the FCA

• 28 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%

• Life assurance

• 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. Follow this link to see what life is like at the FCA - Life at the FCA

Application Support

We are dedicated to removing barriers and ensuring our application process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible.

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: Manager – Regulatory

• Advert Closing Date: 30th March

• First Round interviews: 11th & 4th April

• Management Assessments: 24th & 25th April

• Fina round interviews: 30th April & 1st May

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: 

• For internal applicants, please contact Lucy Matthews at [email protected]   

• For external applicants, please contact Aaron Ward at [email protected]

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