Strategic Assessment Intelligence Analyst – FTC

## Strategic Assessment Intelligence Analyst – FTC until 31/03/28

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** Strategic Assessment Intelligence Analyst – FTC until 31/03/28
**** Division:
** Enforcement and Market Oversight
** Department**:
Enforcement Intelligence and Specialist Services·       
** Salary:
** National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £53,800 to £59,600 and London from £59,200 to £65,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)·       
** This role is graded as:
** Senior Associate - Regulatory·       
** Your recruitment contact is
** Riley Fox 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 UK finance services.

Sitting within the Enforcement & Market Oversight Division, the Enforcement Intelligence and Specialist Services (EISS) Directorate provides strategic knowledge, intelligence capabilities, and operational support across enforcement functions, improving the FCA’s ability to detect harm, deliver effective investigations, and uphold market integrity.

The FCA has recently built a strategic analysis function within the Specialist Intelligence Department (SID) to understand, support and progress the FCA’s operational objectives. The FCA strategy between  commits to 4 key objectives, one of which is preventing Financial Crime, and this function within the Partner & Insights team is central to achieving this objective

The strategic assessment team provides a unique insight into the financial crime threats the FCA and our regulated populations are exposed to, offering all-source analysis to better understand new threats and emerging issues and offer robust recommendations to internal stakeholders to better mitigate the threat of harm.
** Role responsibilities*
* · Conducting strategic analysis of internal and external threats, including scanning, across the financial crime landscape to support informed decision-making for FCA seniors.
· Contextualising and summarising a wide range of intelligence sources to inform analysis.
· Identifying emerging threats, risks and vulnerabilities through comprehensive analysis to guide strategic and tactical prioritisation.
· Developing and delivering strategic assessments and intelligence reports tailored to internal stakeholder requirements, as well as adapting such assessments for external partner awareness.
· Generating and gathering all-source intelligence to detect and understand financial crime threats such as money laundering, fraud, AI, digital assets, technological advancements and sanctions evasion affecting the UK financial services sector.
· Creating high-quality analytical products tailored to diverse audiences, using appropriate formats and presentation styles to communicate insights effectively
· Collaborating with internal stakeholders and external partners to enhance threat understanding, share methodologies and review analytical outputs.
· Building and maintaining regular proactive relationships with the analytical community, including identifying opportunities to collaborate on multi-agency threat assessments that have wider impacts on multiple sectors, the UK and worldwide.  
** Skills required
**** Minimum:*
* · Minimum of SC clearance is required - DV clearance (or a willingness to undertake DV clearance) is advantageous.
· Prior experience, and demonstrable ability to analyse complex intelligence and data from diverse sources…