Senior Policy Adviser, Financial Services Strategy

jobs24.co.uk; Darlington; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an experienced manager to join their Financial Services Strategy Team. This role involves leading on AI in financial services, advising on key policies, and delivering major events like the Mansion House speech. The successful candidate will have strong strategic policy and leadership skills, working collaboratively to address complex issues impacting the financial services sector. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence high-profile policy initiatives while being part of a diverse and inclusive team that values leadership development and collaboration.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Flexible working patterns

Generous parental leave

Defined Benefit pension scheme

Cycle-to-work scheme

Active staff networks

Qualifications

• Experienced manager with strong strategic policy and leadership skills.
• Ability to deliver impact on complex, high-profile policy issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead on AI and financial services, engaging with industry and regulators.
• Advise on Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy.

Skills

Strategic Policy Skills

Leadership Skills

Relationship Building

Judgement Skills

Policy Analysis

Education

Relevant Degree

Job description

Are you an experienced manager with strong strategic policy and leadership skills? Do you enjoy combining your strong judgement and relationship building skills to deliver concrete impact on complex, high profile policy issues? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

About the Team

The Financial Services Strategy (FSS) Team is a diverse and inclusive team made up of policy and strategy advisers. We provide a central hub to develop and drive overarching strategy and co-ordination on a range of sector wide initiatives. This includes leading the group's input into key events in the financial services and economic calendar such as Mansion House and Budget. We are also responsible for the group’s governance structures and programme management processes to monitor the delivery of financial services priorities.

We have responsibility for the Treasury’s regulatory strategy for financial services. This includes the relationship and key accountability mechanisms between the Treasury and the financial services regulators and cross-cutting compensation issues in the financial services sector.

The team is responsible for the government’s programme to repeal, reform and replace Retained EU Law, one of the largest and most ambitious of its kind in Whitehall, with over 500 individual pieces of law to be repealed. The team works very closely with Treasury Ministers and senior management. Our work is fast-paced and wide-ranging, supporting the implementation of the government’s objectives across the financial services sector.

About the Job

You will be responsible for a portfolio of varied cross-cutting policy issues that sit at the heart of Financial Services Group’s work on the government’s defining Growth Mission.

As one of the two range E's in the Unit, you will also be responsible for delivery of major Chancellor of the Exchequer Financial Services events including the annual Mansion House speech, on a rotating basis.

In this role, you will:

1. Lead on AI and financial services, a growing area of interest for Ministers and industry. This includes leading on the AI components of the FS Growth and Competitiveness Strategy which presents a major opportunity for the post holder to define and clarify where HMT FS Group focuses effort on this area over the course of the Parliament. Your work on AI will also involve working closely with DSIT and the financial services regulators. As part of this work, you will regularly engage industry and will work with others across FS Group to ensure they are considering the role of AI and the barriers to its adoption in a joined-up way.
2. Work with colleagues across HMT to represent FS Group interests effectively, including by leading our work on cross-cutting policy issues relevant to financial services, for example tax.
3. Lead key policy for the Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy, including the regional growth pillar. This will include advising Ministers and senior officials on the policy, their industry engagement, and the links with other areas of government policy. You will be responsible for analysing recent Call for Evidence responses in this area and working with others in the Strategy team to develop and ultimately draft the contents of the published Strategy. This will involve working closely with EGU, DSIT, MHCLG and DBT colleagues.

For a more detailed description about the role and key accountabilities please review the job advert on Civil Service Jobs.

About You

This is a high-profile, wide-ranging, and stretching range E role in the Financial Services Strategy and Analysis Unit. It would be ideally suited to an experienced manager with strong strategic policy and leadership skills who enjoys combining their strong judgement and relationship building skills to deliver concrete impact on complex, high profile policy issues.

We encourage applications from a wide range of candidates who would like to stretch their leadership skills in a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive team!

Some of the Benefits our people love!

1. 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.
2. Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours).
3. Generous parental and adoption leave packages.
4. Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28%.
5. Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances.
6. 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.