Senior Policy Adviser, Asset Management Unit

This is an exciting, stretching, and varied leadership role! The successful applicant will be heading a branch to deliver the government’s priorities and shape the long-term domestic framework for the Asset Management sector, ensuring it remains the global powerhouse that it is today.  

About the Team

The Asset Management Unit is a team of seven which sets HM Treasury’s strategy for the UK’s £10.3 trillion asset management industry. The unit is part of the wider Personal Finances and Funds team and is home to the second-largest asset management centre in the world. The sector is crucial to London’s success as a global financial centre and is the largest outside the US. The asset management industry operates globally, and the unit looks at policy changes needed to ensure that this industry can continue to thrive.

About the Job

The post includes line management responsibility and will involve developing and implementing policy measures to protect UK consumers and boost the competitiveness of the sector.

Key accountabilities include: 

1. Building effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders to develop a strong understanding of the UK asset management sector’s priorities and identifying policy opportunities and risks.
2. Leadership on policy issues affecting the sector - including sustainable finance, tax and corporate governance reforms. 
3. Ensuring the domestic framework is delivering for industry by continually reviewing the UK’s funds regime – the legislative, regulatory and tax framework underpinning the asset management sector – and where necessary developing and implementing innovative new measures to enhance the UK sector’s international competitiveness.
4. Ensuring that domestic asset managers are meeting government objectives by convening ministers, industry leaders and senior regulators to set the strategic direction of the asset management sector.
5. Ensuring that the domestic regulatory framework delivers the right outcomes for consumers and financial markets.
6. Advising Ministers, special advisers, senior officials and colleagues on a range of issues within your portfolio.
7. Providing line management for at least 1 direct report and managing future resourcing requirements.

About You

You don’t need to be a policy professional or have any specific qualifications to apply to work as a Senior Policy Adviser at HM Treasury. We are looking for people who have the right set of skills for the role, who demonstrate the values of our organisation, and who are motivated to come and work with us on a range of issues that are at the heart of how we spend money and deliver public services.

The post holder will need the ability to make decisions confidently, even in ambiguous or uncertain environments, to work independently at pace on complex issues and to build strong relationships of trust with an array of stakeholders.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

• 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
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous parental and adoption leave packages
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28.97%
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
• 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 Treasury, role, salary, benefits, who to contact 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, or speak to the recruitment team.