Job title: Interventions Lawyer
Division: Enforcement & Market Integrity (EMI)
Department: Retail 4
Team: Interventions Team
- Salary: London ranging from £76,700 to £90,000 and National (Edinburgh & Leeds) ranging from £69,700 to £80,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
- 2 available opportunities: 1 Permanent and 1 Fixed Term for 12 months
- This role is graded as: Lead Associate – Practising Legal
- 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 Integrity (EMI) 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 EMI, the Retail and Regulatory Investigations (RRI) Directorate investigates firms and individuals across consumer markets to tackle misconduct, address financial crime, and ensure fair treatment that supports a safe and trusted financial services industry.
Within RRI, the Retail 4 department brings together the Interventions, Threshold Conditions and Payment Services Regulator Enforcement teams to identify risks, take timely action, and ensure firms meet the regulatory standards required to operate responsibly within the financial sector.
Role responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of complex interventions, often to tight deadlines, exercising sound judgement and working with minimal day-to-day oversight
- Advise on evidential sufficiency, identify key risks, and make recommendations to support regulatory decision-making
- Produce clear, accurate intervention documentation, including statutory notices, legal advice notes, and Tribunal documents
- Present complex issues credibly to senior stakeholders, including internal committees and external legal advisers
- Build and maintain effective relationships with colleagues across the FCA, regulated firms, their representatives, and external bodies
- Oversee and support the work of colleagues, including junior staff, while escalating significant issues and emerging trends to management where appropriate
- Contribute to training and knowledge-sharing activities, acting as a technical escalation point for complex matters
- Line manage Associates where required, supporting their professional development and appraisals while addressing performance or conduct issues promptly to ensure optimal team performance
Skills required
Minimum:
- Qualified solicitor or barrister with a valid practising certificate (or equivalent internationally recognised legal qualification)
- Significant post-qualification experience in contentious financial services regulation, regulatory investigations or proceedings, financial markets, serious fraud, complex financial crime investigations, or complex litigation and disputes
- Proven experience managing a diverse and challenging caseload, effectively balancing personal responsibilities with the delegation and oversight of work undertaken by junior colleagues
Essential:
- Analytical capability to assess complex evidence, identify evidential gaps, and determine appropriate courses of action
- Experience of delivering multiple competing workstreams within demanding timescales, with effective prioritisation and workload management
- Communication skills to present complex analysis and recommendations clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing
- Judgement to make and defend decisions where appropriate, adapting advice in response to evolving or incomplete evidence
- Experience of mentoring, supporting and delegating work to junior colleagues
- Relationship management skills to build and maintain productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of managing a varied, dynamic and time-sensitive caseload while maintaining appropriate progress across a portfolio of matters
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: 1st November at 11:59pm
- CV Review/Shortlist: 3rd November
- Interviews commencing: 12th, 13th and 16th 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.
