Graduate Associate, RegTech and Advanced Analytics at Financial Conduct Authority

The following is a Graduate Review for Financial Conduct Authority.

Financial Conduct Authority scores 3.7/5 based on 313 reviews.

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What are the Best and Worst things about your job?

Best

I have lots of opportunities to learn new things along with the rest of my team, in a highly collaborative fast-paced environment. My team is very relaxed and friendly and everybody wants to help everybody else to thrive and develop. There is a general nice feel at the FCA that everybody is working together to protect consumers and the economy.
It's a very exciting place to be at the moment with lots of political and technological change. As a graduate, you get a lot of exposure and opportunities to work with senior people.

Worst

The tech we have isn't at the level that is required for people to do their jobs, meaning that things are often slow and a bit frustrating. There are pockets of the organisation open to new ways of working and innovation, and these are rapidly growing but there are still places unwilling to move away from their traditional ways of working.

What is the annual salary for this role?

Starting salary: £33,000 - £35,000

Current salary: £35,000 - £37,000

What advice would you give to someone applying to this role?

Read the questions asked and don't just copy and paste in generic answers. Take your time to try to explain to yourself why you want to work here, then it will be more convincing in the application.
Refer back to the FCA cultural characteristics.

Do you have any interview tips?

Know the background - what the FCA is, what sort of work they do, their reputation in the industry, further detail on the specific type of role you would like.
Be yourself - don't oversell and/or exaggerate things in the application process. Demonstrate the FCA cultural characteristics in things you have achieved and the way you work.