Sensitive Data Exploitation Team Lead (FTC until 18/10/2027)

fca; Greater London; On-site; GBP 67,000 - 86,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave and holidays

Private healthcare with Bupa

Non-contributory pension 8-12%

Life assurance

Job summary

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in London is seeking a Sensitive Financial Intelligence Team Lead (FTC until 18/10/2027). You will lead a blended team of data and intelligence analysts and develop strategies to exploit financial intelligence for regulatory action.

Key responsibilities include hiring and managing staff, overseeing data-led intelligence packages, and collaborating with internal and external partners to drive improved regulatory outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing and developing staff to deliver high-quality analysis.
• Experience delivering significant projects and overseeing acquisition and exploitation of intelligence data.
• Experience in intelligence analysis, investigations, or financial services with relevance to economic or financial crime.

Responsibilities

• Developing the strategy to exploit data sources for FCA insights.
• Hiring, growing, and managing a blended team of data and intelligence analysts.
• Overseeing creation of data-led intelligence packages for onward action and liaising with partners to share insights.
• Acting as a role model and advocate for intelligence within the FCA.
• Being part of the Data Exploitation and SID management teams.

Skills

Staff management

Project delivery

Intelligence analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Job title: Sensitive Financial Intelligence Team Lead (FTC until 18/10/2027)

Division: Enforcement & Market Oversight

Department: Specialist Intelligence Department

Team : Data Exploitation

Salary: This role will be based in London only with salary ranging from £66,600 to £86,000 (salary offered will be based on skills and experience)

This role is graded as: Lead Associate - Regulatory

Your recruitment contact is Riley Fox at [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 UK finance services.

Enforcement & Market Oversight (EMO) is responsible for the FCA's responsibilities for market monitoring, delivery of the functions of the UK Listing Authority (UKLA) and the investigation and prosecution of misconduct using the whole spectrum of criminal, civil and administrative sanctions and remedies against firms and individuals.

Sitting within the Enforcement & Market Oversight Division, the Enforcement Intelligence and Specialist Services (EISS) Directorate provides strategic expertise, intelligence capabilities, and operational support across enforcement functions, strengthening the FCA's ability to detect harm, deliver effective investigations, and uphold market integrity.

Sitting within the Enforcement Intelligence and Specialist Services Directorate, the Specialist Intelligence Department (SID) delivers advanced intelligence capabilities through four expert teams that generate strategic insights into economic crime, proactively detect threats, and collaborate across the FCA and with external partners to prevent serious financial harm.

Role responsibilities

• Developing the strategy to utilise and exploit to best effect a significant source of financial intelligence, opportunity spotting where the data source can enrich FCA understanding of financial crime issues
• Hiring, growing, and managing (overseeing and performance managing) a blended team of data and intelligence analysts at various grades
• Overseeing the creation of data-led intelligence packages for onward action and liaising with internal and external partners to share, validate and develop insights
• Acting as a role model and advocate for intelligence within the wider FCA
• Being part of both the Data Exploitation and Specialist Intelligence Department management team

Skills required

Minimum:

• Experiencing of managing and developing staff to deliver high-quality practical and exploratory analysis
• Experience of significant project delivery and oversight of acquisition and exploitation of intelligence data
• Experience of working in at least one of: intelligence analysis (e.g., OSINT, SOCMINT), investigations, and/or financial services sector; of particular interest, in any of these areas, would be experience of economic or financial crime issues.

Essential :

• Excellent communication skills, capable of delivering both strategic and tactical briefings to a range of stakeholders of differing seniority.
• Demonstrable interpersonal skills, to engage with a variety of internal and external partners, setting own direction of engagement and leading projects to improve stakeholder business processes and workflows.
• Able to articulate how data can be used to drive both tactical and strategic decision-making, spotting opportunities where a data-led approach can drive better outcomes.
• Excellent workload management of own workload and the management of a team of associate analysts.

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.

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