Regulatory Lawyer – 12 months fixed term contract (maternity leave cover)
Division: Legal Division
Department: Payment Systems and Competition
Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £60,900 to £81,000 per annum and London from £66,900 to £89,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted.
Please include a cover letter with your application. Your CV should clearly highlight the relevant experience and skills that match the role criteria, while your cover letter should detail your motivation for applying.
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.
The FCA’s Legal Division provides advice and legal services across the full breadth of FCA and Payment Systems Regulator activity, including regulatory, policy, enforcement and operational work.
The FCA Legal Division’s Payment Systems & Competition Department provides advice to the PSR on its approach to regulation and policy development and also its compliance and supervision work. It also provides advice to the FCA and PSR on how they each use their functions under competition law.
By joining us, you’ll play a key part in protecting consumers and other users of payment systems, contributing to economic growth and helping improve UK financial services
For a full list of our benefits and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page .
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 volume s we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.
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