Senior Incident Management Associate

Financial Conduct Authority; Leeds; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 79,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Office presence across Leeds, London,/

Pension (8–12%) and life assurance

Private healthcare and income protec

Volunteer hours (35)

Flexible benefits scheme

Job summary

The Financial Conduct Authority is seeking a Senior Incident Management Associate to join the Technology, Resilience and Cyber (TRC) division in a role spanning incident response and supervision. You will lead resilience and cyber incident management, coordinate triage, and shape strategies across UK offices (Leeds, Edinburgh, London) to protect consumers and market integrity.

You will work within SPC’s remit of supervision, policy and competition, engaging with UK authorities and external

Qualifications

• End-to-end operational incident and cyber incident management experience.
• Analytical mindset with risk-based decision making in crises.
• Experience working in the financial sector.
• Broad expertise across technology and cyber resilience disciplines.
• Knowledge of COBIT, NIST or ITIL and their application to incident management.
• Awareness of emerging technologies including AI, cloud and automation.
• Ability to translate complex incidents into supervisory insights.
• Excellent communications and stakeholder engagement.
• Experience in fast-paced environments with clear briefings to senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the FCA’s response to operational resilience incidents and cyber-attacks, helping to protect consumers and maintain market confidence.
• Coordinate timely incident triage and supervisory responses to minimise disruption and harm.
• Develop incident response strategies with other supervisory colleagues for effective outcomes.
• Shape understanding of emerging technology risks, including AI, for resilience and response.
• Coordinate with UK authorities during major incidents for a unified response.
• Empower supervision teams with operational resilience expertise and guidance.
• Deliver insights and management information to senior leaders during high-profile incidents.
• Promote best practices on incident reporting and resilience across teams.

Skills

Incident management

Analytics

Financial sector

Cyber resilience

COBIT/NIST/ITIL

AI and cloud

Supervisory insights

Communication

Stakeholder engagement

Fast-paced work

Job description

Job Title: Senior Incident Management Associate
Division: Supervision, Policy & Competition (SPC)
Department: Technology, Resilience and Cyber (TRC)

• Salary: National (Edinburgh and Leeds) ranging from £53,800 to £71,666 and London £59,200 to £78,800 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

• This role is graded as: Senior Associate – Regulatory

• Your external recruitment contact is Steve Christopher via [e-mail]

• Your internal recruitment contact is Isabelle Groves via [e-mail]

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 financial services in the UK.

SPC oversees firms and individuals (supervision), creates and reviews the rules by which they operate (policy) and identifies and remedies ineffective competition in markets (competition). As part of the Incident Response and Exercising team, you’ll play a key role in coordinating the FCA’s supervisory response to operational incidents affecting regulated firms, helping to protect consumers, maintain market confidence and support financial sector resilience.

Working within a collaborative and close-knit team, you’ll partner with colleagues across the FCA and external stakeholders, including UK authorities, to minimise disruption and drive coordinated outcomes. You’ll contribute to and lead industry exercises, engage in domestic and international forums and support governance activities that boost operational resilience across the sector. You’ll also help shape the FCA’s understanding of emerging technologies, including AI and their impact on the evolving operational resilience landscape.

Role responsibilities

• Lead the FCA’s response to operational resilience incidents and cyber-attacks, helping to protect consumers, maintain market confidence and support the resilience of the UK financial system
• Coordinate timely incident triage and supervisory responses, enabling swift action to minimise disruption and potential consumer harm
• Work with other supervisory colleagues to develop effective incident response strategies that improve outcomes during critical events, including engaging with firms that are impacted by them
• Shape the FCA’s understanding of emerging technology risks, including AI, ensuring the organisation is prepared for evolving operational resilience challenges
• Coordinate alongside UK financial authorities during major incidents, contributing to a unified response where significant consumer or market impacts are at stake
• Empower supervision teams with specialist operational resilience expertise, enhancing their ability to assess risks, motivate firms and build up sector resilience
• Deliver critical insight, reporting and management information to senior leaders, supporting informed decision-making during high-profile incidents
• Champion best practice across the FCA as a trusted subject matter expert, providing guidance on incident reporting and operational resilience, building capability across teams and helping to create a safer, more resilient financial sector for millions of UK consumers

Skills required

Minimum

• Prior experience in end-to-end operational incident and cyber incident management processes
• Prior experience with a well-developed analytical mindset and risk-based decision making in response to emerging crisis and urgent situations
• Prior experience of working in the financial sector

Essential

• Experience across a range of technology and cyber resilience disciplines, bringing broad expertise to complex operational resilience challenges
• Knowledge of recognised resilience and risk management frameworks, such as COBIT, NIST or ITIL and their application to incident management and resilience practices
• Strong awareness of emerging technologies, including AI, cloud and automation, with the ability to assess their impact on operational resilience and incident response
• Ability to translate complex technology incidents into clear supervisory insights, considering consumer outcomes, market stability, firm resilience and wider sector dependencies
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly and confidently to a variety of internal and external audiences
• Proven ability to build effective relationships, work collaboratively across teams and engage credibly with diverse stakeholders
• Experience operating in fast-paced environments, responding to evolving incidents and providing clear, timely briefings and recommendations to senior decision-makers

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Colleagues spend a minimum of 50% of their working time in the office each month (60% for Directors and Executive Directors) across our London, Leeds and Edinburgh offices.

• Non-contributory pension (8–12% depending on age) and life assurance at eight times your salary

• Private healthcare with Bupa, income protection and 24/7 Employee Assistance

• 35 hours of paid volunteering annually

• A flexible benefits scheme designed around your lifestyle

For a full list of our benefits and our recruitment process as a whole visit our benefits page.

Our values and culture

Our colleagues are the key to our success as a regulator. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture: one that’s free from discrimination and bias, celebrates difference and supports colleagues to deliver at their best. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better regulation.

If you require any adjustments due to a disability or condition, your recruiter is here to help - reach out for tailored support.

We welcome diverse working styles and aim to find flexible solutions that suit both the role and individual needs, including options like part-time and job sharing where applicable.

Disability confident: our hiring approach

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and therefore, people or individuals with disabilities and long-term conditions who best meet the minimum criteria for a role will go through to the next stage of the recruitment process. In cases of high application volumes we may progress applicants whose experience most closely matches the role’s key requirements.

Useful information and timelines

Timeline

• Job advert close: 2nd November 2026 at Midnight
• CV Review/Shortlist: 4th – 6th November 2026
• Case Study Assessment & Interviews: 11th – 18th November 2026

Your Recruiter will discuss the process in detail with you during screening for the role, therefore, please make them aware if you are going to be unavailable for any date during this time.

SC Clearance is required for this role (SC Guidance) - you will hold or will be required to obtain Security Check (SC) level vetting.