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FCA

Unified Threat - Technical Specialist

Place: London · Leeds · Edinburgh
Pay: £75k to £85k
Posted: Today

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The role

Job Title: Unified Threat - Technical Specialist

Division: Operations

Department : Cyber and Information Resilience

Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £74,900 to £85,000 and London from £82,300 to £90,000 per annum (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

This role is graded as: Technical Specialist – Regulatory

Your external recruitment contact is Benjamin via Benjamin.Paulon@fca.org.uk

Your internal recruitment contact is Lauren via Lauren.McHale@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.

C&IR is responsible for enabling secure regulation at the FCA and PSR. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a high profile, newly created role, that will focus on cyber security, insider risk and physical access threats, in a co-ordinated way.

You will centralise our threat management efforts, ensuring a coordinated approach and bolstering capability around such areas as risks related to organised crime, espionage, physical access operations against the FCA and travel security. This will set the balance between engagement and security on a range of sensitive, high-profile and impactful areas for the FCA such as organised crime and more.

Role responsibilities

Lead and coordinate the FCA’s response to security threats, including nation state activity, regulatory risk, physical security and cyber threats

Work closely with government departments, law enforcement agencies and external partners to support a coordinated security approach

Provide comprehensive travel security advice and support, including for colleagues based overseas

Advise on and help manage risks associated with exposure to Organised Criminal Groups as part of the FCA’s financial crime remit

Support the development and implementation of security policies, standards and best practice across the organisation

Deliver risk assessments and specialist advice on targeted threats, including access to outsourced services such as online profiling and personal security reviews where required

Design and deliver training and awareness initiatives, helping colleagues build knowledge and capability across a range of security topics

Gain a unique opportunity to work across the organisation, contribute to complex strategic decisions, broaden your technical skills and develop a deep understanding of the FCA in a busy, supportive environment

Skills required

Minimum:

Experience managing information and intelligence gathering, synthesis and assessment, with the ability to brief senior leadership, including ExCo, and produce comprehensive, covering both enterprise-level and individual security considerations

Experience applying formal risk management techniques in operational and real-world security scenarios and implementing security measures and data protection principles

Knowledge of the legislative environment relating to intelligence collection operations, combined with extensive investigative experience and the ability to analyse information to support security and risk-based decision making

Essential:

Applied understanding of risk assessment frameworks to support informed, risk-based decision-making

Solid understanding of engagement and collaboration with law enforcement agencies, regulated firms, and international stakeholders, including foreign government bodies

Comprehensive understanding of intelligence handling responsibilities, governance requirements, and information management standards

Extensive experience in Insider Risk programmes and a clear understanding of how they interact with wider staff risk management frameworks and organisational controls

Benefits

28 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 & 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 timeline

Advert Closing: 18th October (midnight)

CV Review/Shortlist: 20th October

First Stage Interviews W/C: 26th October

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.

You will be required to obtain and hold DV clearance