Lead Digital Assets Supervisor

• Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £60,700 to £70,700 and London from £66,600 to £77,600 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
• This role is graded as: Lead Associate - Regulatory
• Your Internal recruitment contact is Jennifer Wishart via Jennifer.wishart@fca.org.uk.
• Your external recruitment contact is Tahir Khan via tahir.khan1@fca.org.uk. Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted.

Our Registered team are responsible for supervising firms’ compliance with the Money Laundering Regulations (MLRs). The team identify, manage, and mitigate risks of potential harm arising in firms, including rapidly intervening where firms are at risk of being used as conduits for illegal activity, or pose a harm to consumers or market integrity. The team has a key role to play in ensuring the effective embedding of the new regime both internally and externally. In the future, we will be supervising firms’ compliance under FSMA.

• →Line managing colleagues, including closely managing performance and talent as necessary
• →Carefully planning, prioritising, and allocating supervisory work across the team
• →Assessing cases of varying complexity, and making sound, consistent, and timely regulatory judgements
• →Formulating strategies to deal with complex or novel issues arising domestically or internationally
• →Delivering through others, by coaching colleagues in technical knowledge, case strategies, and firm interactions
• →Supporting build of the supervisory framework, infrastructure, operating model and processes to allow MIDA and SPC, including specialist supervisors, to effectively supervise crypto firms under the future regulatory regime
• →Work with firms to ensure they can meet full new FSMA requirements by 25 October 2027 (implementation date)
• →Establishing and maintaining effective relationships with a wide range of internal stakeholders, including financial crime specialists, legal advisors, Authorisations, Intelligence, Enforcement and Policy teams

• Prior people management experience demonstrating the ability to support, coach and develop those with a range of backgrounds
• Demonstrable experience of assessing and analysing information including analysing complex information and data, exercising robust, consistent judgements that balance a range of competing factors, and synthesising supervision or investigation strategies
• Experience of supervision or investigations under the MLRs or Payments Services Regulations/Electronic Money Regulations (PSRs/EMRs), and FSMA

• A motivated individual who combines structure with careful judgment to reach decisions
• Experience of prioritising the workload of a team, managing your time effectively and using sound judgement to deliver results in a high-case volume environment
• Demonstrated sense of accountability, demonstrating ownership of problems and implementing pragmatic action-based solutions

• Familiarity with the range of firms across the Digital Assets sector including business models, key products, schemes, systems, and the roles played by various firms and institutions
• Demonstrated ability to balance competing priorities and operate effectively when priorities shift frequently
• Ability to represent yourself and the FCA professionally and credibly, with effective oral and presentation skills
• Experience in managing challenging firms, supporting them through the regulatory process, and maintaining clear standards to deliver positive regulatory outcomes
• Experienced in mentoring peers and providing dependable support to others

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.
 

• Job advert closes: Sunday 8th November (midnight)
• CV Review/Shortlist: Tuesday 10th November
• Interviews: From w/c 16th November

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.