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Lawyer - Enforcement Legal - Regulatory Reform page is loaded Lawyer - Enforcement Legal - Regulatory Reform Apply locations London Leeds Edinburgh time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday time left to apply End Date: July 9, 2025 (13 days left to apply) job requisition id JR Lawyer - Enforcement Legal - Regulatory Reform
Division - Legal Division
Salary - National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £68,900 to £103,200 and London £75,700 to £113,500 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 .
Law, Policy and International provides legal and policy advice on Enforcement matters and international investigations. In the domestic context, the department ensures that the FCA has the appropriate powers and public policies to tackle harm and respond to misconduct. This typically involves negotiating legislative reforms with HM Treasury and other government departments, as well as delivering updates to the Decision Procedure and Penalties Manual (DEPP) and the Enforcement Guide.
The Enforcement SRF team focuses primarily on legislative reforms connected to the repeal and replacement of assimilated law (previously termed Retained EU law), which has been a key pillar of HMT's Smarter Regulatory Framework (SRF) Programme. Legislation on which the team has advised includes: Part 5A FSMA (inserted by FSMA 2023 to create the Designated Activities Regime); the Public Offers and Admissions to Trading Regulations 2024; the Securitisation Regulations 2024; the Consumer Composite Regulations 2024; the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Designated Activities) (Supervision and Enforcement) Regulations 2025; and the Short Selling Regulations 2025. For an illustration of our Handbook-related output, see Chapter 5 of CP25/9 (Further proposals on product information for Consumer Composite Investments).
What will you be doing?
- Shaping the future legal framework in which FCA Enforcement will operate
- Collaborating with colleagues of all levels across the Legal Division, EMO and SPC in particular
- Analysing currently available supervisory, investigative and enforcement powers and articulating gaps in those powers
- Building evidence-based arguments for why those gaps matter, by reference to case precedents, as well as the FCA's and HMT's strategic priorities
- Negotiating desired legislative changes with HMT
- Developing and drafting changes to DEPP and the Enforcement Guide, ensuring compliance with relevant statutory duties and FCA governance processes
- Delivering through less senior colleagues, providing steers and support as appropriate
What will you get from the role?
- Sharing responsibility for delivering for the FCA further and improved tools for tackling harm and deterring misconduct
- Accelerated development of your technical legal skills through working on primary legislation, secondary legislation and Handbook drafting
- Deepened appreciation for the policy design and delivery processes, both within government and at the FCA
- Exposure to a broad spectrum of financial services regulation, i.e. markets-based and consumer-focused regimes
- A rich and balanced portfolio of work, the overall mix including non-SRF workstreams and potentially assisting with Enforcement-related matters where international partners are engaged
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
- Qualified lawyer, able to practise in the UK
- Minimum 5 years PQE (Post-qualification experience) in any of the following areas: contentious financial services or other regulatory investigations or proceedings; financial markets; investigations involving serious fraud or other complex financial crime; complex litigation or disputes
Essential
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to analyse information quickly and identify key issues clearly
- Strong technical legal skills, with the ability to conduct complex legal research and apply legal analysis to often novel factual situations in order to develop imaginative, practical and legally sound solutions
- Strong communication skills, capable of communicating clearly, concisely and effectively to a variety of audiences, including senior staff at the FCA and other senior stakeholders both orally and in writing
- Ability to form and maintain effective working relationships with peers, management, internal and external stakeholders across the organisation and external agencies at a senior level
- A self-starter with the ability to act on their own initiative and deliver excellent outcomes with appropriate supervision, often under pressure and to challenging deadlines
- A pragmatic approach to delivery that involves and empowers less senior colleagues where possible
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 . click apply for full job details