The Commission is recruiting for Senior Analysts to join the Investment, Fiduciary and Pension Division due to team expansion.
The Investment, Fiduciary and Pension Division supervises a broad range of licensees and funds, undertaking on-site visits, thematic reviews, policy work and reactive supervision. The Division comprises three teams: ‘home’, ‘away’ and policy. The home team supervises low impact entities, including all funds. Their work includes thematic reviews and reactive supervision e.g. responding to notifications, intelligence, alerts, and requests for permission. It is largely desk-based. The away team is responsible for the higher impact licensees, including conducting on-site visits to firms as part of full risk assessments and custom engagements, as well as reactive supervision for those firms.
Role allocations between the home and away teams will be in accordance to business needs and the experience of successful candidates.
Highlights of the role include:
- Assisting the Director and/or Deputy Directors of the Division in respect of the introduction, or amendment, of legislation, rules, guidance notes, policies and procedures relevant to the work undertaken by the Division.
- Planning and leading on-site visits; conducting research, analysing and identifying key issues in information and data and considering matters to raise. Reviewing files, assessing risks and accurate minute taking.
- Assisting with maintaining and developing the Commission’s relationship with its licensees. This could include analysis of, and decision-making on, matters requiring the Commission’s approval, consent or comment and supporting the Authorisations and Innovations Division to investigate and assess applications for licences, registrations and exemptions.
- Analysing licensees’ periodic returns and financial statements and any other information which might affect their continuing ability to meet the licensing criteria.
- Analysing the sector as a whole, producing trend documents, incorporating risk based analysis and presenting findings back to the industry sector as necessary.
- Preparing and presenting licensee cases to the Risk Governance Panels.
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