Financial Services Senior Policy Advisers

Do you want to build high-profile financial services policy that affects consumers, businesses, and economic growth across the UK? If so, we would love to hear from you!

About the Team

The Financial Services Group provides advice to the Government on encouraging a stable, efficient, and well-regulated financial services sector. This sector produces strong outcomes for consumers and businesses, boosts economic growth, and reinforces the UK’s global financial centre status. Our scope includes lending, insurance, pensions, technology, innovation, and international financial services. We engage closely with regulators, industry, consumer groups, government departments, and international partners.

We are an inclusive, collaborative team that values new perspectives and supports colleagues’ development while handling fast paced, high-profile policy matters.

About the Job

In this role, you will:

• Guide the Government’s long-term strategy across your portfolio, ensuring policy is grounded in evidence, adaptive to technological and economic developments, and consistent with broader priorities.
• Build policy proposals, resolve complex challenges, and use robust analysis to assess impacts, trade-offs, and implementation considerations.
• Coordinate the delivery of reforms, programmes, or legislation from approval through to implementation and evaluation, with effective governance and risk management.
• Provide clear, high-quality written and verbal advice to ministers, special advisers, and senior officials on complex and finely balanced issues.
• Develop impactful connections across government, regulators, industry, and, where relevant, consumer groups and international partners.
• Lead and develop team members, crafting an inclusive and encouraging environment that promotes high performance.
• You will work in a fast-paced environment with regular exposure to ministers, senior leaders, and external collaborators. Whichever portfolio you join, you will help achieve the Government’s goals for a competitive, innovative, resilient, and well-regulated financial services sector.
• Americas: Manage the UK’s financial services relationships across the Americas, promoting shared priorities, market access, and regulatory cooperation through bilateral and multilateral engagement.
• Business Engagement: Lead strategic engagement with financial services businesses so that market insight informs policy and delivery, including senior relationships, high-profile events, and speeches.
• Business Lending: Promote policy reforms that facilitate access to finance, including contributions to the Commercial Credit Data Sharing scheme, and counsel ministers on business banking topics.
• Challenger Banks and Fin Tech: Help the UK remain a leading global centre for challenger banks and fintechs by crafting policy that supports innovation, competition, investment, and growth.
• Consumer Credit: Guide reforms for a modern and proportionate consumer credit framework that supports innovation and growth while protecting consumers.
• Europe, Middle East and Africa: Build financial services engagement across strategically important markets, deepening regulatory cooperation, promoting UK interests, and addressing market-access issues.
• G20 Digital Assets: Guide policy creation and preparations for financial services priorities during the UK’s G20 Presidency in 2027, including work on digitalised markets.
• Home ownership Schemes: Lead policy on government-backed home ownership schemes, balancing the interests of consumers, lenders, and taxpayers while coordinating delivery.
• Mortgages: Develop policy for a resilient and competitive mortgage market, advise ministers on priority issues, and cultivate positive relationships with regulators, industry, and consumer…