Job title: Interventions Lawyer
Division: Enforcement & Market Oversight
Department: Retail 4
Team : Interventions
Salary: London ranging from £66,900 to £75,000 and National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £60,900 to £68,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
3 available opportunities: All permanent
This role is graded as: Senior 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
Progressing a portfolio of demanding intervention cases, progressing matters autonomously and to tight deadlines, identifying and managing key risks, and ensuring cases are driven forward effectively without close day-to-day oversight.
Advising on evidential sufficiency, identifying key risks and making judgements and recommendations
Clear, accurate drafting of all forms of interventions documents (including statutory notices, legal advice notes and Tribunal documents)
Presenting to senior stakeholders with credibility, including at internal committee meetings and in meetings with external legal advisors
Building and maintaining effective working relationships with colleagues in other areas at all levels within the FCA, regulated firms and their representatives and with external bodies
Escalating to management key issues and trends arising on cases
Contributing to training, knowledge sharing and being a point of escalation on technical matters
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:
Ability to apply public law principles, including reasonableness and proportionality, and exercise strong judgement in assessing evidence, managing legal and regulatory risk, and recommending proportionate intervention outcomes
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…