Financial Services Senior Policy Advisers

HM Treasury; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Flexible working patterns

Parental and adoption leave

Defined Benefit pension scheme (28.97%

Cycle-to-work scheme

Staff networks

Job summary

HM Treasury is seeking a senior policy professional to lead complex financial services policy across multiple portfolios. You will guide long-term strategy, build evidence-based proposals, and coordinate reforms from policy design through to implementation and evaluation.

You will provide clear advice to ministers and senior officials, develop strategic cross-government relationships, and lead a team focused on delivering high-impact policy in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Leadership and management of policy teams and projects
• Strong analytical and evidence-based approach to policy
• Excellent written and oral communication with ministers and senior officials
• Ability to build cross-government and stakeholder relationships

Responsibilities

• Guide the Government’s long-term strategy across your portfolio, ensuring policy is grounded in evidence and adaptive to developments.
• Build policy proposals, resolve complex challenges, and assess impacts, trade-offs, and implementation considerations.
• Coordinate the delivery of reforms, programmes or legislation from approval through implementation and evaluation, with governance and risk management.
• Provide clear, high-quality written and verbal advice to ministers, special advisers, and senior officials on complex issues.
• Develop impactful connections across government, regulators, industry, consumer groups and international partners.
• Lead and develop team members, cultivating an inclusive environment that promotes high performance.
• Work in a fast-paced environment with ministers and senior leaders to achieve the Government’s goals for a competitive and well-regulated financial services sector.

Job description

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 FinTech: 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.
• Homeownership Schemes: Lead policy on government-backed homeownership 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 representatives.
• Pensions Markets: Guide intricate regulatory and market reforms that encourage well-functioning pension markets, positive results for savers, and a balanced, competitive sector.
• Pensions Investment: Lead policy to unlock more productive pensions investment and help long-term savings support UK growth, innovation, and infrastructure.

About You

You will be able to lead complex policy work, work closely with partners to evaluate various factors, apply good judgement, and suggest conclusions even when facing uncertainty. You will understand the broader political and economic environment and incorporate this into your policy advice. You will also present complex information clearly and convincingly to senior leaders, ministers, and external participants, tailoring your approach to your audience. Strong critical thinking, relationship-building, and effective delivery skills will help you succeed across any of the available portfolios.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous parental and adoption leave packages
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28.97%
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at [e-mail].