Senior Policy Associate

Financial Reporting Council Limited; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

The Financial Reporting Council Limited is seeking a Senior Policy Associate to support the UK Corporate Governance Code and Stewardship Code. The role involves analysing governance reporting, drafting reviews, and engaging with external stakeholders to inform policy development and ensure robust, credible recommendations.

You will work across cross-organisational initiatives, supervising junior colleagues and contributing to policy transformation in a dynamic regulatory environment.

Qualifications

• Thorough understanding of UK corporate governance and stewardship frameworks.
• Experience in corporate governance, stewardship, or policy.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and ability to explain complex information.

Responsibilities

• Analyze quality of governance and stewardship reporting by UK listed companies and signatories.
• Draft sections of annual governance and stewardship reporting reviews.
• Assess applicants for UK Stewardship Code signatories and manage end-to-end assessment steps.
• Support promotion of the Wates Governance Principles for Large Private Companies.
• Review research and prepare briefings for senior colleagues.

Skills

Governance knowledge

Policy experience

MS Office

Stakeholder relations

Communication

Data synthesis

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

The Corporate Governance and Stewardship team within the FRC is responsible for the UK Corporate Governance Code, the Stewardship Code and the Wates Principles.

This role is part of a dynamic team developing the FRC’s approach to corporate governance and stewardship, through analysis, assessment and obtaining evidence to support policy development.

As well as producing regular and ad hoc publications and assessing applications against the Stewardship Code, the team is responsible for frequent interaction with external stakeholders including those who use our Codes and others across the business and political stakeholder landscape.

• Undertake the comprehensive analysis of the quality of corporate governance and stewardship reporting by UK listed companies and Stewardship Code signatories, respectively.
• Lead on drafting sections of the annual UK corporate governance reporting review and the annual review of stewardship reporting, producing high quality content on areas of expertise.
• Contribute to the robust, fair and proportionate assessment of applicants for UK Stewardship Code signatories.
• Assume responsibility for aspects of the end-to-end assessment process for UK Stewardship Code applications.
• Promote and support the Wates Governance Principles for Large Private Companies, providing analysis and developing policy as appropriate.
• Review, analyse and summarise relevant research, policy papers and consultations, and preparing briefings for senior colleagues.
• Support and oversee junior colleagues in day-to-day work.
• Accompany senior colleagues to external meetings, providing high quality briefing and liaising directly with external stakeholders when appropriate.
• Work on cross-organisational initiatives that promote good governance and stewardship or support organisational transformation.

Skills & Knowledge

• A thorough understanding of the UK corporate governance and stewardship frameworks, including the interaction between government, regulators, practitioners and other stakeholders.
• Relevant experience in corporate governance, stewardship, or policy.
• Good proficiency using Microsoft applications and new technologies to support deliverables.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective internal and external stakeholder relationships and effectively engage with other organisations who have interests in these areas.
• Excellent standard of written and verbal communication, with the ability to effectively communicate complex technical information to a range of audiences.
• Ability to communicate findings of analysis accurately and succinctly both in writing and orally.
• Proficiency in identifying trends and key issues to highlight emerging policy areas, and the synthesis of this information to deliver credible and coherent recommendations.

Ability to:

• manage a varied workload with competing priorities, and to meet tight deadlines.
• provide leadership to more junior team members and role model effective working behaviours.
• be adaptable and perform comfortably in a complex and changing policy environment.
• work collaboratively across a mixed site team.
• The Senior Policy Associate role is important in supporting the UK Corporate Governance Code and the UK Stewardship Code, bringing integrity and transparency to business and confidence to investment markets.