Senior Policy Adviser - Head of Financial Services Market Access Policy

If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives, HM Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK!

About the Team

The International Policy and Partnerships sits within HM Treasury's Financial Services group, is a friendly team of around 20 people that leads on the UK's relationship with other countries and jurisdictions where there are well-developed inter-institutional arrangements for cooperation on financial services. This includes the EU, Gibraltar, Switzerland, Singapore, Japan, Australia and the United States. We work on the development of and policy related to regulatory tools needed to build these international relationships.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Policy Adviser to help lead our Financial Services Market Access branch. Great policy making is about understanding what needs to change, what problems need to be solved and supporting Ministers to arrive at the best solution to deliver the change, and the branch develops policy on and handles HM Treasury’s tools for improving international market access in financial services. You will contribute to the growth and competitiveness of the UK financial services sector by improving the ease with which firms are able to safely carry out cross-border financial services, both from and into the UK market.

Key accountabilities

1. Deliver reform of the UK's overseas regimes to improve ease of cross-border financial services trade for UK-based firms and overseas firms accessing the UK market
2. Handle the pipeline of overseas regime designations to improve the UK's relationships with key financial services partners around the world
3. Implement the Gibraltar Authorisation Regime to provide a long-term market access solution for Gibraltar-based financial services firms in the UK
4. Build positive relationships with colleagues in the Bank of England, the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority to enable effective implementation and delivery of market access regimes for financial services
5. Build and maintain positive relationships with key overseas collaborators
6. Line manage two SEOs to provide encouraging and development-focused leadership

About you

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. Our ideal candidate will have a proven track record providing advice that acknowledges the challenges and charts a way forward to a successful conclusion. You will be able to build positive and effective working relationships with a range of colleagues to benefit your area of work. Lastly, you'll be able to demonstrate management of difficult relationships thoughtfully and diplomatically. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!

About us

HM Treasury is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We know that having a range of experiences, ways of working and thinking makes us a stronger organisation, better at developing policy that is reflective of the communities we serve. We embrace different views and experiences and value the fresh perspective that people from a variety of circumstances bring to the work we do. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances.

Some of the Benefits our people love! 

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 days 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 you to take up to an additional 2 days off each month.
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, compressed hours). 
• Generous parental leave and adoption leave packages. 
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances.
• A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help meet the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes.
• Access to HM Treasury’s benefits portal allowing you access to a range of discount codes for online shopping.
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity
• Access to a range of allowances if eligibility applies. These include profession related allowances.  

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, or speak to the HM Treasury recruitment team.