PaymentsPolicyAssociate

**Job title:** Payments Policy Associate **Division:** Supervision, Policy & Competition (SPC) **Department:** Cross-Cutting Market Analysis and Strategy * **Salary banding:** National (Leeds and Edinburgh) from £43,100 to £50,200 and London from £47,300 to £55,100 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience) * **This role is graded as:** Associate – Level 8 – Regulatory * **Your internal recruitment contact** is Louis Van Den Burg via [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) * **Your external recruitment contact is** Tahir Khan via [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). Applications must be submitted through our online portal. Applications sent via social media or email will not be accepted. **_About the FCA and team_** We regulate financial services firms in the UK, to keep financial markets fair, thriving and effective. By joining us, you’ll play a key part in protecting consumers, driving economic growth, and shaping the future of UK finance services. SPC oversees firms and individuals (supervision), creates and reviews the rules by which they operate (policy) and identifies and remedies ineffective competition in markets (competition). Sitting in the Payments and Digital Assets directorate, the Policy department develops policy to address the challenges and opportunities the FCA identifies in payments, crypto, open banking, open finance sectors. **_Role responsibilities_** * Play an active role in the Payments Policy team, helping to deliver a major regulatory modernisation programme and supporting policy development on innovative payment models, including agentic commerce * Support wider project delivery and management of FCA policy governance * Deliver impactful payments policy projects by applying your expertise in analysis and project management, shaping the future of financial regulation and innovation * Build close cross-functional relationships across the organisation, promoting collaboration that acc