AI Analyst

Job Title:

AI Analyst Division:
Data, Technology and Innovation Department: AI Product Development Salary:
National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from 53,800 to 72,000 and London from 59,200 to 80,000 per annum (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)
This role is graded as:
Senior Associate – Regulatory Your external recruitment contact is Benjamin via benjamin.paulon.ukYour internal recruitment contact is Pat via Patrycja.

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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 Data, Technology and Innovation (DTI) division enables the FCA to be a digital-first, data-led smart regulator by delivering a secure, agile, and cost-effective technology and data ecosystem that drives better decisions, transparency, and operational efficiency.

Sitting within DTI, the AI Product Development department scopes and shapes AI solutions across the FCA and helps manage the organisation-wide pipeline of AI initiatives, ensuring work is prioritised, well-defined and aligned to strategic outcomes.

Role responsibilities

Identify and shape high value opportunities for applying AI across the organisation, enabling smarter and more effective regulatory outcomes to maximise impact

Facilitate structured discovery workshops with stakeholders to surface pain points, map processes and pinpoint where AI can deliver meaningful improvements that increase efficiency

Build credibility and influence at all levels of the organisation, including senior leaders and decision-makers, adapting communication style and messages to suit different audiences and securing buy-in for AI-driven change and innovation initiatives

Translate business challenges into clear functional and non-functional requirements, working collaboratively with technical teams to design AI enabled solutions that meet real needs

Manage and prioritise a pipeline of AI initiatives, partnering with data scientists and leadership to focus effort on the highest impact projects for maximum value

Contribute to the organisation’s wider AI adoption strategy through insight, stakeholder engagement, and evidence-based recommendations to guide direction

Advocate best practice in business analysis, promoting consistency, quality and knowledge sharing across the department to develop capability

Gain experience delivering experimental and innovative projects that address real world challenges such as financial crime and consumer protection to create tangible outcomes

Build a distinctive skill set at the intersection of AI, data, technology and regulation within a collaborative, learning focused environment to support career growth

Skills required

Minimum:

Experience in a senior business analyst role or a comparable position such as Consultant, Solution/Service Designer or Product Owner Experience delivering projects across the full lifecycle, using both waterfall and agile methodologies

Working knowledge of artificial intelligence, including areas such as large language models (LLMs), agentic AI, and prompt engineering.

Essential:

Solid understanding of core Business Analysis techniques, including user journey mapping, process mapping, requirements gathering and the ability to design and facilitate collaborative workshops

Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence and credibility to engage, challenge and gain buy-in from senior leaders and subject matter experts across the organisation

Ability to work through complex problems, identifying underlying issues and opportunities for improvement

Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to adapt style, language and level of detail to different audiences, from technical specialists to senior executives, ensuring complex concepts are understood and acted upon Strong communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to adapt style,…