Head of Advanced Asia Pacific Financial Services

HM TREASURY; Darlington; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

HM Treasury seeks a skilled professional for a strategic role within the Financial Services Group, focusing on international partnerships and financial dialogues. This role requires excellent organisational abilities, strategic judgement, and the aptitude to build collaborative relationships with stakeholders, collectively driving UK's financial services objectives.

Benefits

25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years)

Flexible working patterns

Generous parental and adoption leave packages

Access to Defined Benefit pension scheme with 28.97% employer contributions

Salary sacrifice cycle-to-work scheme

Qualifications

• Track record of advising on complex policy issues.
• Experience in managing relationships across teams and external partners.
• Ability to lead and manage workloads in fast-paced environments.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver 'financial dialogue' forums with Advanced Asia Pacific jurisdictions.
• Maintain knowledge of financial services developments in relevant jurisdictions.
• Build and maintain relationships with HMT colleagues and external partners.

Skills

Strategic Judgement

Organisational Skills

Relationship Building

Team Leadership

Job description

Do you have strong strategic judgement, excellent organisational skills, and the ability to develop strong working relationships with internal and external partners? If so, we have the perfect role for you!

About the Team

The Financial Services Group advises the government on how to promote a stable and efficient financial services sector, to deliver excellent outcomes for consumers and business, enhance the UK’s position as a global hub for financial services and support economic growth across the country.

The International Policy and Partnerships team sits within HM Treasury's Financial Services group, is a friendly team of around 20 people that leads on the UK's relationship with other countries and jurisdictions where there are well-developed inter-institutional arrangements for cooperation on financial services. This includes the EU, Gibraltar, Switzerland, Singapore, Japan, Australia and the United States. We work on the development of, and policy related to regulatory tools needed to build these international relationships.

About the Job

In this role, you will:

• Plan and deliver major senior-official led ‘financial dialogue’ forums between the UK and Advanced Asia Pacific partner jurisdictions. This includes co-ordinating with colleagues to agree an agenda, logistics and a public ‘joint statement’ that advances UK objectives, as well as briefing senior officials ahead of their participation.
• Prepare ministerial and senior official briefings to deliver engagements with Advanced Asia Pacific jurisdictions to maintain momentum and advance UK objectives between formal dialogues.
• Maintain knowledge within the branch of key relevant financial services developments in Advanced Asia Pacific jurisdictions, making good use of the FCDO overseas network to support this understanding.
• Build and maintain excellent relationships with colleagues across HMT and at the Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority and across government with FCDO and the Department for Business and Trade to ensure consistency and co-ordinated engagement with partners to support UK objectives.
• Develop positive and collaborative stakeholder relationships with counterparts in other jurisdictions and industry representatives.
• To plan ministerial and senior official Financial Services travel to Advanced Asia Pacific jurisdictions, including scoping trip objectives, working with FCDO Post colleagues to design itineraries and logistics and working with ministers, as well as their Private Offices, to ensure their priorities and preferences are reflected.
• Line management for one HEO. Opportunities for matrix management of wider team members on specific projects.

About You

For this role you will need to be able to build and maintain effective relationships across teams, the wider Treasury, and external partners, to drive progress and deliver the department’s priorities. Lead and motivate a team and manage a full workload in a fast-paced environment and successfully progress a number of short-term and long-term priorities at the same time. And, have a track record of advising seniors on complex policy issues, providing advice that acknowledges the challenges and charts a way forward to a successful conclusion.

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

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.

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].