Governance Lead
Salary: National – ranging from £48,900 – £61,100 and London from £53,700 – £67,100 per annum
The team/department
The Central Secretariat sits at the heart of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR). It is part of the FCA’s Corporate Governance Division, led by the Company Secretary.
The division comprises the following functions:
1. Central Secretariat (incorporating the Conflict of Interests Policy Team and Senior Managers Regime Support Function)
2. Consumer Panel Secretariat
The team works with the FCA and PSR Boards and senior executive committees of the FCA. It also owns the organisational Conflict of Interests (COI) policies for staff and non-executive directors and supports the Senior Managers Regime (SMR) function.
What you will be doing (the role)
1. Line manage a workstream responsible for either governance support for the Boards, Board committees and executive committees of the FCA and PSR, and/or management of the organisational Conflict of Interests policies, and support for the SMR as it is applied to the FCA and PSR.
2. Build and maintain strong working relationships with key stakeholders across the FCA and PSR, including the Board Chairs and Non-Executive Directors (NEDs), the Chief Executive/Managing Director, Executive Directors and their offices to support an effective and efficient governance framework.
3. Provide advice and support to Senior Management Function (SMF) holders as required to ensure that the SMR is delivered as effectively and efficiently as possible.
4. Oversight of the FCA’s Conflict of Interests work, supporting the Ethics Officer and Deputy Ethics Officer in delivery of the function, ensuring alignment of, and compliance with, the staff and NED COI policies.
What you will get from the role
1. You will have the opportunity to oversee and co-ordinate a small number of associate and professional support colleagues responsible for delivering the following:
2. Agenda planning, meetings management, governance advice for the FCA’s and PSR’s senior executive committees, Boards, and board committees.
3. Management of the FCA’s Senior Managers Regime process.
4. Providing advice on conflicts of interest, delivering policy updates, to FCA and PSR staff, Non-Executive Directors, and other senior stakeholders.
5. The role provides an excellent insight into the day-to-day operations of the FCA and PSR and allows the opportunity to facilitate effective and efficient decision-making that will shape the future of both organisations.
Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifestyle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option to top up your base salary by taking this as cash.
Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:
1. 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
2. Private healthcare with Bupa
3. 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)
4. Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
5. 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 will have
Minimum
1. 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, who best meet the minimum criteria for a role.
2. Previous line management responsibility gained in similar company secretarial and/or governance role.
3. Demonstrable experience of working with and influencing senior stakeholders including supporting Boards and/or senior executive committees.
4. Working knowledge of the application of conflicts of interest policy within a regulator and associated risk management in a governance function.
5. Working knowledge of the Senior Managers Regime and Conflict of Interests requirements.
6. Strong verbal and written communications skills, including the ability to bring information together from various sources into clear, concise minutes and reports and to adapt style depending on audience.
7. Experience of providing support, advice and challenge to Senior Management on the development and implementation of Policy and the execution of compliance procedures and controls.
8. Sound attention to detail – can demonstrate taking pride in work and ensuring it is of the highest standard.
9. Strong organisational, prioritisation and negotiation skills.
10. Discretion and the ability to gain others' trust.
11. An ability to respond positively to change, adopting a flexible approach to new ideas, assignments and approaches.
12. Experience of delivering continuous improvement in programmes of work.
About the FCA
The FCA regulates the conduct of nearly 45,000 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.
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 role.
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.
Multi-location
As part of the FCA’s ongoing commitment to develop our national presence, most of our vacancies are now open to working in our Edinburgh, Leeds, or London offices. This means that as part of the application process you will be able to select your preference of which office location you would like to work from.
Useful information
Applications for this role close at 23:59 on Sunday 17th November 2024.
This role is graded as Lead Associate – Corporate.
There are two Lead Associate roles available.
If you are interested in learning more about the role please contact.
What to expect from our interview process
The interview process will be two stages and will include a written assessment and competency-based interview.
Application support
We want to remove any possible barriers and are committed to providing a wide range of reasonable adjustments so that you can keep the focus on your conversations and be at your best. If you have an accessibility requirement, disability, or condition that means you might require changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter to discuss this further.
Security Clearance/Vetting
The successful candidate will hold or will be required to obtain Security Clearance (SC) level vetting.
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