Are you looking for an exciting and stretching role that provides the opportunity to see a policymaking process through from beginning to end, developing, testing, and implementing proposals ? If so, we’d love to hear from you !
About the Team
Personal Finances and Funds team brings together the strategic oversight of the asset management and consumer credit sectors in the UK, with responsibility for the protection of consumers to whom they provide services. Our work is challenging, fast-paced and high profile, but we are a fun, friendly and inclusive team with consistently high staff engagement. The team consists of three units:
The Consumer Credit Unit, which leads government policy towards the £200bn consumer credit market.
The Financial Inclusion, Capability and Consumer Debt Unit, which ensures that financial services are available and affordable to all, consumers are equipped to navigate them, and appropriately supported where they fall into debt.
The Asset Management Unit, which sets HMT’s strategy for the UK’s £10.3 trillion asset management industry.
The asset management sector is critical to the UK’s economic success. With £10.3 trillion of assets managed in the UK it’s the second largest sector of its kind globally, and it plays a central role in growing the savings of UK citizens, and channelling investment into key Government priorities such as major infrastructure projects, innovative growing companies, and th...