Senior Financial Crime Market Interventions Associate

## Senior Financial Crime Market Interventions Associate Apply locations:
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Leeds:
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July 20, 2026 (17 days left to apply) job requisition :
JR0021820
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* Job Title:

** Senior Financial Crime Market Interventions Associate  
** Division:
** Supervision, Policy & Competition (SPC)  
** Department:
** Financial Crime Market Interventions (FCMI)
* ** Salary:
** National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £53,800 to £71,666 and London £59,200 to £78,800 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
* ** This role is graded as:
** Senior Associate – Regulatory
* ** Your external recruitment contact is
** Steve Christopher via
* ** Your internal recruitment contact is
** Isabelle Groves via
* 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 financial services in the UK.SPC oversees regulated 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 Specialist Directorate, the Financial Crime Market Intervention (FCMI) department provides the FCA with specialist financial crime expertise to support its strategic objective by helping to minimise the risk of regulated businesses being used for purposes connected with financial crime.
The Senior Associate will support the oversight and delivery of Annex 1 firms’ compliance with the Money Laundering Regulations, identifying opportunities to strengthen systems and controls and contributing to supervisory interventions that promote positive regulatory outcomes. They may also undertake financial crime systems and controls assessments for firms subject to the Money Laundering Regulations across multiple portfolios, working collaboratively to enhance firms’ compliance frameworks and financial crime risk management
** Role responsibilities
*** Conduct and deliver supervisory and intelligence work on firms subject to the Money Laundering Regulations, including assessing business models, AML control frameworks and indicators of financial crime risk, unregistered activity or wider consumer harm
* Analyse complex information from multiple sources, including firm submissions, open-source material, Companies House data, internal intelligence and case material, to identify risks and support evidence-based decision-making
* Assess firms’ compliance with the Money Laundering Regulations, with a focus on areas such as business-wide risk assessments, customer risk assessments, customer due diligence, ongoing monitoring, governance and training
* Support the identification and development of cases, supervisory interventions, proactive programmes and portfolio/thematic work designed to address financial crime risk, weaknesses in AML systems and controls, potential unregistered activity or wider consumer harm
* Draft high-quality briefings, assessments, recommendations and internal papers for senior stakeholders, clearly setting out risk, rationale and proposed next steps
* Build and maintain effective working relationships across the FCA, including with supervision, intelligence, enforcement and policy colleagues
* Support engagement with firms where required, including information requests, follow-up questions and analysis of responses
* Help develop team knowledge, improve processes and contribute to a supportive team culture
** Skills required
**** Minimum:
*** Prior experience of financial crime risks, particularly Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and how risk-based controls are designed, implemented or assessed in a professional environment
* Demonstrable experience analysing complex data or information and producing clear, evidence-based recommendations or decisions
** Essential:
*** Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise,…