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Executive Assistant - Controls, Capabilities and Frameworks Directorate London, England

Financial Conduct Authority

Full Time London, England 44500 - 55000 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Executive Assistant - Controls, Capabilities and Frameworks Directorate

Salary: London from £44,500 to £55,000

Are you interested in joining a Directorate that drives excellence within the operational frameworks of Supervision, Policy and Competition (SPC), the FCA’s largest front-line operational division?

Controls, Capabilities and Frameworks Directorate (CCF) act as the single point of contact for central FCA functions. By doing this, we enable our 2 Executive Directors, 13 Directors and more than 1300 colleagues work consistently and efficiently to deliver the FCA’s strategic outcomes and regulatory obligations. If we get it right, every one of our colleagues should directly benefit from our efforts – that’s a challenge and a responsibility we take seriously.

The role of Executive Assistant plays a critical role in supporting the CCF Director and the Heads of our two Departments:

Operations, Reporting and Capabilities who act as custodians of our operational frameworks, and the assurance and risk management required to ensure these are working effectively
Business Directed Change who provide business-led ownership for technology, data and systems transformation and streamlined governance and decision-making support for the division

What you will be doing

Managing the flow of information between Director and directorate, SPC and FCA stakeholders at all levels
Ensuring the Director is briefed on issues and ahead of meetings as required
Working closely with and providing support and advice to the Director on a range of policy, supervisory, operational, strategic and management issues
Meeting key deadlines for deliverables and actions, and that these are monitored and escalated to the Director in a timely manner
Horizon scanning for key issues that might need escalating to Director
Deputising for the Director at meetings as required/requested
Ensuring the Director’s office runs efficiently
Triaging Director’s inbox and diary to reflect emerging, reactive and strategic priorities
Coordinating and facilitating effective senior management of the Directorate through cascades, management meetings and awaydays
Attending meetings with senior stakeholders, and occasionally taking minutes and recording actions as appropriate
Providing support and direction to the Director’s PA and delegating administrative and operational tasks appropriately across the Directorate’s professional support community

What you will get from the role

You’ll gain insights into how a world class regulator uses operational discipline, innovation and great change management to drive operational excellence and efficiency in partnership with others. You’ll get a chance to improve the way we work in Supervision, Policy and Competition. You’ll deepen your knowledge about how the FCA’s biggest division interfaces with key central operational functions and develop and broaden your networks right across the FCA, particularly at senior stakeholder level.

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

25 days holiday per year
Private healthcare with Bupa
A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35).
Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
Income protection

We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three office locations.

The skills and experience you’ll have

We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role.

Minimum

Demonstrable experience in use of MS Office applications – specifically Powerpoint, Word and Excel
Previous experience managing inboxes and diaries at Director (or equivalent) level
Experience deputising at Director (or equivalent) level

Essential

Familiarity with the FCA's operational processes and policies
Effective communication skills
Proven people skills and an ability to establish, develop and maintain effective relationships with colleagues at all levels
Proven organisational, prioritisation and time management skills
Discretion, confidence, and composure when dealing with sensitive and complex situations
Close attention to detail
An ability to analyse and rapidly assimilate new information and understand complex issues, in order to provide practical and constructive recommendations
Tenacity to question and challenge all levels of the FCA (where appropriate) in a constructive and positive manner

About the FCA
The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found

here.

The FCA's Values & Diversity
Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. 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.

The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our Senior Associate role.

Flexible working
We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking.

Useful information

Applications for this role close at midnight on Sunday 13th August

This role is graded as Senior Associate - Corporate

What to expect from our assessment and selection process

If successful, you will be invited to attend a first stage competency-based interview. The final stage will include a relevant exercise and competency-based questions

Got a question?

If you are interested learning more about the role:

Internal candidates please contact Beth Haydon on

[email protected]

External candidates please contact Chhavi Bartaria on

[email protected]

Please note that all applications must be submitted through our online portal, applications sent via email will not be accepted.

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