Lead Associate Lawyer

Join the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as a Lead Associate Lawyer in the Law and International team. You will play a key role in regulating financial services firms in the UK, protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance services. Your responsibilities will include providing legal advice on enforcement powers and policies, managing key international enforcement relationships, and engaging with cross-departmental enforcement policy work. You will also have the opportunity to work on complex legal issues and advance multiple key projects.

• Lead and manage legal aspects of international enforcement matters, including the use of FCA investigation powers on behalf of overseas authorities.
• Build and maintain relationships with key international partners and internal stakeholders, ensuring effective engagement and representation of the FCA's interests.
• Provide strategic, legal, and policy advice on enforcement powers and policies, and manage and develop key international enforcement relationships.

• Well-developed relationship management skills to build and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, international counterparts and external bodies
• Robust, self-motivated and a good team player
• Real interest in international work, cross-border cooperation and enforcement policy
• Significant post-qualification experience in any of the following areas: contentious financial services or other regulatory investigations or proceedings; financial services or public law advisory work; international cooperation; complex international investigations
• Ability to apply sound principled legal and evidential analysis to novel situations and think strategically
• Ability to perform effectively in demanding situations and meet deadlines
• Effective communication skills to present the outcome of analysis clearly and effectively, orally and in writing
• Qualified lawyer, Solicitor or Barrister of England and Wales or international equivalent