Director - Financial Services

We are looking for a Director to join Flint’s expanding financial services team. At a time of significant political and policy change, successful candidates will have a unique opportunity to support the continuing development of Flint’s business in this area and work on an exciting array of complex policy and regulatory issues for our clients.

This will involve working closely with senior team members across Flint to advise clients on public policy, politics, regulation, and commercial strategy with a specific focus on UK financial services. Flint’s clients want to understand, in detail, how they can build a long-term strategy to thrive in an evolving policy environment. Our clients include asset managers, banks, financial market infrastructure (FMI) companies, payments firms, retail investment platforms, fintechs and other financial institutions as well as alternatives, portfolio companies and corporates.

The financial services team works across Flint’s London and our international offices in Brussels, Paris and Hong-Kong/Singapore with our advice often covering multiple jurisdictions. In this London-based role, you will focus both on our growing portfolio of UK clients and drive business development efforts with our European and APAC offices.

As part of the Flint team, you will share insights about key policy challenges, to enable your clients to deliver the best possible outcomes. You will lead multidisciplinary teams to deliver high quality outputs for our clients including monitoring, research, analysis and reports. You will also lead on business development, identifying and engaging with potential clients.

More broadly, you will contribute directly to the growth of Flint’s financial services practice. This will include helping to develop our market profile, supporting business development activities, contributing to thought leadership, and identifying emerging policy and regulatory themes that matter to clients. As our financial services offering continues to expand across jurisdictions and sectors, you will have the opportunity to help shape its development and growth.

We are seeking someone with deep expertise in financial services policy and/or regulation to lead client accounts and contribute to the growth of our business. This role will be pivotal in delivering strategic advice and technical policy or regulatory support to our wide range of financial services clients.

You will drive client accounts, manage high-performing teams, and ensure the delivery of high-quality services that exceed client expectations. You will also play a key role in business development, generating new opportunities, and expanding our financial services policy practice.

While this role will focus on financial services issues, there may also be an opportunity to work across other policy issues. Candidates should feel free to outline their experience in other policy areas in their application, but this is not a requirement. Directors typically have around 10 years’ worth of work experience.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Significant experience in financial services policy fields such as insurance, pensions, payments, fintech, crypto, investment management or banking with a demonstrated ability to advise on complex regulatory and policy challenges in these areas.
• A strong professional background in government, a regulator, consultancy, think tank, or industry body in managerial positions and connections for business development.
• A proven track record
  of managing projects and leading project teams in a fast-paced, delivery-focussed environments.
• Strong commercial acumen
  , with the ability to develop new business opportunities and deliver commercially viable solutions…