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Job title:  Crypto Supervisor– Market Abuse (12 month FTC)
Division:   Enforcement & Market Oversight  

Department: Secondary Market Oversight

• Salary: National (Edinburgh & Leeds) ranging from £53,000 to £69,000 and London ranging from £59,200 to £76,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience) 

• This role is graded as:  Senior Associate – Regulatory

• Your recruitment contact is  Riley Fox at [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.   

The Secondary Market Oversight department discharges the FCA’s responsibility to combat market abuse in secondary markets and monitors markets in the service of the FCA’s broader objective to support market function and protect market integrity.

The Market Abuse Surveillance Supervision (MASS) team plays a central role in the department’s work. MASS supervises firms’ and trading venues’ market abuse surveillance, ensuring that market participants have effective systems and controls in place to detect and report potential market abuse to the FCA through suspicious transaction and order reports (STORs).

Role responsibilities 

• Assessing firms’ and trading venues’ market abuse surveillance systems and controls across cryptoasset and traditional markets

• Delivering formal communications to internal and external stakeholders

• Supporting the upskilling of colleagues across the Department through cryptoasset training, helping build readiness for the new regime.

• Keeping SMO senior management apprised of all relevant developments, and advising where appropriate.

Skills required 

Minimum: 
 

• Practical experience in UK financial markets, gained in a financial services firm, trading venue, financial services consultancy firm or regulator.

• A demonstrable, working knowledge of the mechanics of traded markets, and market abuse typologies, gained through prior experience

• Please submit a cover letter explaining why you believe you are suitable for this role, maximum 300 words

Essential:  
 

• Understanding of the UK Market Abuse Regulation (UK MAR).

• Understanding of the UK cryptoasset regime, specifically the proposed policy for Market Abuse Regime for Cryptoassets (MARC) and Admissions and Disclosures (A&D), as per CP25/41.

• Experience of identifying and analysing key risks of harm from a range of information.

• Strong analytical and communications skills.

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex events clearly and succinctly.

• Curiosity with an enthusiasm for learning and sharing knowledge.

• Self-starter with proactive approach to acquiring skills and getting the job completed

• Demonstrable experience of compliance and surveillance of traded products.

Benefits 

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays 

• Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary 

• Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection, and 24/7 Employee Assistance 

• 35 hours of paid volunteering annually 

• A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle 

For a full list of our benefits, and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page. 

Our values and culture

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. 
 
 

Disability confident: our hiring approach  
 
We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes, we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements. 
 
 

Useful information and timelines  

Timeline:  

• Job advert closing: 5th July at 11:59pm

• CV Review/Shortlist: w/c 7th July

• First Stage Interview: w/c 20th July

• 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.   

• Please submit a cover letter explaining why you believe you are suitable for this role, maximum 300 words