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    • Google Student Research Intern 2025

      09 Dec 2024

      Google Student Research Intern 2025

      About the Internship

      The Student Researcher Program’s primary objective is to foster academic collaborations with students through research at Google. Join us for a paid Student Researcher position that offers the opportunity to work directly with Google research scientists and engineers on research projects.

      The Student Researcher Program offers more opportunities for research students to work on critical research projects at Google in a less structured way. The program allows for flexibility beyond the limitations of our traditional internship program on aspects such as duration, time commitment, and working location with options for on-site or remote. The topics student researchers work on tend to be open-ended and exploratory, and don't always have a clear deliverable like a traditional internship would.

      The Student Researcher Program is intended for students enrolled in a full-time degree program in the EMEA region who will be returning to their degree program after the completion of the internship. Participation in the Student Researcher Program requires that you are located in one of the specific country locations identified for this role for the duration of the engagement.

      Google Research is building the next generation of intelligent systems for all Google products. To achieve this, we’re working on projects that utilize the latest computer science techniques developed by skilled software developers and research scientists. Google Research teams collaborate closely with other teams across Google, maintaining the flexibility and versatility required to adapt new projects and foci that meet the demands of the world's fast-paced business needs.

      Minimum qualifications:

      • Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Linguistics, Statistics, Biostatistics, Applied Mathematics, Operations Research, Economics, or Natural Sciences, or equivalent practical experience.
      • Experience in one area of computer science (e.g., Natural Language Understanding, Human Computer Interactions, Generative Media, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Algorithmic Foundations of Optimization, Quantum Information Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, or similar areas).

      Preferred qualifications:

      • Currently enrolled in a full-time degree program in EMEA and returning to the program after completion of the internship.
      • Experience as a researcher, including internships, full-time, or at a lab.
      • Experience contributing to research communities or efforts, including publishing papers in major conferences or journals.
      • Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages (e.g., C/C++, Java, MATLAB, Go, Python, etc.).

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Summer Internship 2025: Data Analyst

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Summer Internship 2025: Data Analyst

      We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for interns to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP 

      Length: 10 weeks 

      Dates: Monday 16th June 2025 - Friday 22nd August 2025  

      In Data, Technology & Innovation (DTI), we are transforming the way the FCA analyses and uses the data, intelligence and information we receive so that we can spot harm and act sooner, enabling us to more effectively regulate the firms we oversee.

      If you join our Data Analyst Summer Internship, you’ll get exposure to the lifecycle of data at the FCA. The scheme will give you experience in data design and operations, data engineering and data analysis and visualisation.  Interns on this scheme use a range of analytical techniques to derive insight from data and this insight derivation is a key interest for you.

      At the end of the internship, you’ll have gained experience in both data analysis and financial services, working with diverse groups of stakeholders to solve real-world business problems. And, if you’re successful, you could be offered a place on our 2026 Graduate Programme.

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      If you're:  

      • on course for a 2.1 in a quantitative degree
      • STEM degree background
      • enjoy working with data
      • have proven analytical and problem-solving skills
      • are naturally curious
      • are a team player
      • can communicate complex information in a clear and simple manner 

      WHAT WE OFFER 

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:  

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work 
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers 
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for 
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      At the FCA you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference. We offer all our summer interns:  

      • A competitive salary of £24,000 (pro-rata) 
      • A bespoke induction in the first week of the summer internship programme to introduce you to what we do at the FCA and our place in the Financial Services landscape 
      • Access to a skills training path to support you through your internship and beyond  
      • Completion of a financial services related project that benefits the local community, which you will present to a senior panel of judges towards the end of your internship 
      • Opportunity to hear from senior speakers across the business  
      • Lunch and learn sessions to widen your knowledge of the FCA divisions and their work  
      • Social opportunities to network and engage with your intern cohort  

      PLEASE NOTE:   

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 Data Analyst Summer Internship must be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university and be in their penultimate year of study with a graduation year of 2026.
      • For the 2025 Data Analyst Summer Internship, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications.

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Summer Internship 2025: Data Science

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Summer Internship 2025: Data Science

      We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for interns to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      We’re looking for interns to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP 

      Length: 10 weeks 

      Dates: Monday 16th June 2025 - Friday 22nd August 2025  

      In Data, Technology & Innovation (DTI), we are transforming the way the FCA analyses and uses the data, intelligence and information we receive so that we can spot harm and act sooner, enabling us to more effectively regulate the firms we oversee.

      If you join our Data Science Summer Internship, you’ll work in our Advanced Analytics and Data Science Unit department leading the development and application of data science at the FCA. Our data scientists deliver business value through the use of pioneering techniques.

      You’ll support our data scientists on projects and help deliver innovative solutions to solve challenging problems. For example, you could be deploying machine learning to build classifiers to support decision making. Or, implementing natural language processing to automate document analysis and utilising network analytics to identify transaction patterns.

      At the end of the internship, you’ll have gained experience in both data science and financial services, working with diverse groups of stakeholders to solve real-world business problems. And, if you’re successful, you could be offered a place on our 2026 Graduate Programme

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      If you're:  

      • on course for a 2.1 in a quantitative degree
      • have experience working with data
      • have proven analytical and problem-solving skills
      • are a team player
      • can communicate complex information in a clear and simple manner then we want to hear from you
      • can code in Python or R is useful 

      WHAT WE OFFER 

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:  

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work 
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers 
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for 
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      At the FCA you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference. We offer all our summer interns:  

      • A competitive salary of £24,000 (pro-rata) 
      • A bespoke induction in the first week of the summer internship programme to introduce you to what we do at the FCA and our place in the Financial Services landscape 
      • Access to a skills training path to support you through your internship and beyond  
      • Completion of a financial services related project that benefits the local community, which you will present to a senior panel of judges towards the end of your internship 
      • Opportunity to hear from senior speakers across the business  
      • Lunch and learn sessions to widen your knowledge of the FCA divisions and their work  
      • Social opportunities to network and engage with your intern cohort  

      PLEASE NOTE:   

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 Data Science Summer Internship must be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university and be in their penultimate year of study with a graduation year of 2026.
      • For the 2025 Data Science Summer Internship, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications. 

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Summer Internship 2025: Financial Services | London

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Summer Internship 2025: Financial Services | London

      We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP 

      Location: London

      Length: 10 weeks 

      Dates: Monday 16th June 2025 - Friday 22nd August 2025  

      Our Summer Internship Programme gives you valuable insight into the FCA and financial services market and provides you with an opportunity for real responsibility while you’re with us. You’ll sit within one of our departments and have the chance to work alongside experts in their field. For example, there are opportunities within the Supervision, Policy & Competition division where you could conduct market studies and analysis to shape future policy decisions or use your analytical skills to obtain, review, organise and draw conclusions from complex data sets. Or you could sit in our Enforcement team collating and analysing data to hold those suspected of serious misconduct accountable.

      Whichever team you join, you’ll be showing us your potential and we’ll show you what a regulatory career is really like. You’ll experience first-hand the breadth and diversity of work we do here at the FCA and learn from the brightest minds in the industry through learning lunches and speaker sessions from our senior leaders. You’ll also be paired with one of our current graduates to help you build your professional network. By the end of the programme you’ll be able to decide whether a regulatory career is for you – and successful interns could be offered a place on one of our 2025 graduate programmes at the end of the summer.

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      We’re not prescriptive when it comes to your background, all we ask is that you’re in your penultimate year of study and on track to gain a 2:1 degree or equivalent. Most importantly, we’re looking for passion, integrity, ambition and aptitude.

      We want you to use and build upon the transferrable skills from your degree; working collaboratively and being strategically minded to solve problems and form judgements.

      WHAT WE OFFER 

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:  

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work 
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers 
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for 
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      At the FCA you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference. We offer all our summer interns:  

      • A competitive salary of £24,000 (pro-rata) 
      • A bespoke induction in the first week of the summer internship programme to introduce you to what we do at the FCA and our place in the Financial Services landscape
      • Access to a skills training path to support you through your internship and beyond 
      • Completion of a financial services related project that benefits the local community, which you will present to a senior panel of judges towards the end of your internship
      • Opportunity to hear from senior speakers across the business 
      • Lunch and learn sessions to widen your knowledge of the FCA divisions and their work 
      • Social opportunities to network and engage with your intern cohort 

      Join us and make a positive change in financial services - we look forward to receiving your application!

      PLEASE NOTE:   

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 Financial Services Summer Internship must be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university and be in their penultimate year of study with a graduation year of 2026.
      • For the 2025 Financial Services Summer Internship, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications. 

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Summer Internship 2025: Financial Services | Leeds

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Summer Internship 2025: Financial Services | Leeds

      We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP 

      Location: Leeds

      Length: 10 weeks 

      Dates: Monday 16th June 2025 - Friday 22nd August 2025  

      Our Summer Internship Programme gives you valuable insight into the FCA and financial services market and provides you with an opportunity for real responsibility while you’re with us. You’ll sit within one of our departments and have the chance to work alongside experts in their field. For example, there are opportunities within the Supervision, Policy & Competition division where you could conduct market studies and analysis to shape future policy decisions or use your analytical skills to obtain, review, organise and draw conclusions from complex data sets. Or you could sit in our Enforcement team collating and analysing data to hold those suspected of serious misconduct accountable.

      Whichever team you join, you’ll be showing us your potential and we’ll show you what a regulatory career is really like. You’ll experience first-hand the breadth and diversity of work we do here at the FCA and learn from the brightest minds in the industry through learning lunches and speaker sessions from our senior leaders. You’ll also be paired with one of our current graduates to help you build your professional network. By the end of the programme you’ll be able to decide whether a regulatory career is for you – and successful interns could be offered a place on one of our 2025 graduate programmes at the end of the summer.

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      We’re not prescriptive when it comes to your background, all we ask is that you’re in your penultimate year of study and on track to gain a 2:1 degree or equivalent. Most importantly, we’re looking for passion, integrity, ambition and aptitude.

      We want you to use and build upon the transferrable skills from your degree; working collaboratively and being strategically minded to solve problems and form judgements.

      WHAT WE OFFER 

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:  

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work 
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers 
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for 
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      At the FCA you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference. We offer all our summer interns:  

      • A competitive salary of £22,000 (pro-rata) 
      • A bespoke induction in the first week of the summer internship programme to introduce you to what we do at the FCA and our place in the Financial Services landscape
      • Access to a skills training path to support you through your internship and beyond 
      • Completion of a financial services related project that benefits the local community, which you will present to a senior panel of judges towards the end of your internship
      • Opportunity to hear from senior speakers across the business 
      • Lunch and learn sessions to widen your knowledge of the FCA divisions and their work 
      • Social opportunities to network and engage with your intern cohort 

      Join us and make a positive change in financial services - we look forward to receiving your application!

      PLEASE NOTE:   

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 Financial Services Summer Internship must be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university and be in their penultimate year of study with a graduation year of 2026.
      • For the 2025 Financial Services Summer Internship, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications. 

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Summer Internship 2025: Financial Services | Edinburgh

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Summer Internship 2025: Financial Services | Edinburgh

      We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP 

      Location: Edinburgh

      Length: 10 weeks 

      Dates: Monday 16th June 2025 - Friday 22nd August 2025  

      Our Summer Internship Programme gives you valuable insight into the FCA and financial services market and provides you with an opportunity for real responsibility while you’re with us. You’ll sit within one of our departments and have the chance to work alongside experts in their field. For example, there are opportunities within the Supervision, Policy & Competition division where you could conduct market studies and analysis to shape future policy decisions or use your analytical skills to obtain, review, organise and draw conclusions from complex data sets. Or you could sit in our Enforcement team collating and analysing data to hold those suspected of serious misconduct accountable.

      Whichever team you join, you’ll be showing us your potential and we’ll show you what a regulatory career is really like. You’ll experience first-hand the breadth and diversity of work we do here at the FCA and learn from the brightest minds in the industry through learning lunches and speaker sessions from our senior leaders. You’ll also be paired with one of our current graduates to help you build your professional network. By the end of the programme you’ll be able to decide whether a regulatory career is for you – and successful interns could be offered a place on one of our 2025 graduate programmes at the end of the summer.

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      We’re not prescriptive when it comes to your background, all we ask is that you’re in your penultimate year of study and on track to gain a 2:1 degree or equivalent. Most importantly, we’re looking for passion, integrity, ambition and aptitude.

      We want you to use and build upon the transferrable skills from your degree; working collaboratively and being strategically minded to solve problems and form judgements.

      WHAT WE OFFER 

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:  

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work 
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers 
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for 
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      At the FCA you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference. We offer all our summer interns:  

      • A competitive salary of £22,000 (pro-rata) 
      • A bespoke induction in the first week of the summer internship programme to introduce you to what we do at the FCA and our place in the Financial Services landscape
      • Access to a skills training path to support you through your internship and beyond 
      • Completion of a financial services related project that benefits the local community, which you will present to a senior panel of judges towards the end of your internship
      • Opportunity to hear from senior speakers across the business 
      • Lunch and learn sessions to widen your knowledge of the FCA divisions and their work 
      • Social opportunities to network and engage with your intern cohort 

      Join us and make a positive change in financial services - we look forward to receiving your application!

      PLEASE NOTE:   

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 Financial Services Summer Internship must be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university and be in their penultimate year of study with a graduation year of 2026.
      • For the 2025 Financial Services Summer Internship, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications. 

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Summer Internship 2025: Technology

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Summer Internship 2025: Technology

      We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP 

      Length: 10 weeks 

      Dates: Monday 16th June 2025 - Friday 22nd August 2025  

      Financial services regulation is constantly changing, impacting the way in which we regulate. To support this, we deliver a large and varied portfolio of change programmes, implementing new regulatory directives and the required information technology services. If you join the Technology Summer Internship you’ll support colleagues to help manage the impact of such change on the organisation, its processes, and people. You’ll be aligned to one of our five departments: Core Technology, Digital Systems, Tech Resilience, Tech Enablement and Strategy and Architecture. You could be involved with the following:

      Strategy and Architecture:

      • Supporting the planning and prioritisation of the strategic change portfolio
      • Coordinating design governance forums
      • Developing investment cases for future projects

      Core Technology: 

      • Supporting our Cloud and DevOps team
      • End User Computing
      • Enterprise Resource Planning
      • Infrastructure Product Group

      Digital Systems: 

      • Quality Engineering
      • Market Intelligence and Enforcement
      • Data and Analytics

      Tech Enablement: 

      • Resource planning and communication
      • Risk Management
      • Finance
      • Capability Acceleration

      Tech Resilience: 

      • Supplier management
      • Service operations
      • Cyber Security

      At the end of the internship you’ll have gained experience in your allocated area of Technology and experienced working with diverse groups of stakeholders to solve real-world business problems. And, if you’re successful, you could be offered a place on our Graduate Programme in 2025.

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      To be eligible, you’ll be in your penultimate year at university and on course for a 2:1 degree or above. Whilst we’re flexible about your type of degree, you’ll need to demonstrate a passion for technology and some experience in coding or technology management.

      Throughout the internship you’ll gain exposure to a wide variety of business areas working to ensure the solutions to complex business problems drive change and support the FCA’s mission. You’ll need to be analytical, commercially minded and customer-focused to thrive in this dynamic environment. And, as the challenges are multi-faceted, working collaboratively across teams is a must.

      WHAT WE OFFER 

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:  

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work 
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers 
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for 
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      At the FCA you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference. We offer all our summer interns:  

      • A competitive salary of £24,000 (pro-rata) 
      • A bespoke induction in the first week of the summer internship programme to introduce you to what we do at the FCA and our place in the Financial Services landscape
      • Access to a skills training path to support you through your internship and beyond 
      • Completion of a financial services related project that benefits the local community, which you will present to a senior panel of judges towards the end of your internship
      • Opportunity to hear from senior speakers across the business 
      • Lunch and learn sessions to widen your knowledge of the FCA divisions and their work 
      • Social opportunities to network and engage with your intern cohort 

      Join us and make a positive change in financial services - we look forward to receiving your application!

      PLEASE NOTE:   

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 Technology Summer Internship must be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university and be in their penultimate year of study with a graduation year of 2026.
      • For the 2025 Technology Summer Internship, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications. 

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Summer Internship 2025: Change

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Summer Internship 2025: Change

      We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      We’re looking for interns to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP 

      Length: 10 weeks 

      Dates: Monday 16th June 2025 - Friday 22nd August 2025  

      The Change Directorate provides project delivery and change expertise to deliver complex change within the FCA. There are many diverse teams within the directorate - from those who work with our business functions to understand more about what changes are required, to those who plan and structure the change and keep it safe through its delivery.

      When joining the Change Directorate, you will be placed on one of our key projects to support delivery over 10 weeks. You will be responsible for project deliverables and will work alongside and learn from experts from the various Change disciplines. You will gain an understanding of how the disciplines of  Business Partnering, Project Management, Portfolio Management, Business Analysis and Business Change come together to deliver change.

      At the end of the internship, you’ll have gained experience in your allocated area of Change and experienced working with diverse groups of stakeholders to solve real-world business problems. And, if you’re successful, you could be offered a place on our Graduate Programme in 2025.

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      Throughout the internship you’ll gain exposure to a wide variety of business areas working to ensure the solutions to complex business problems drive change and support the FCA’s mission. You’ll need to be analytical, commercially minded and customer-focused to thrive in this dynamic environment. And, as the challenges are multi-faceted, working collaboratively across teams is a must.

      WHAT WE OFFER 

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:  

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work 
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers 
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for 
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      At the FCA you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference. We offer all our summer interns:  

      • A competitive salary of £24,000 (pro-rata) 
      • A bespoke induction in the first week of the summer internship programme to introduce you to what we do at the FCA and our place in the Financial Services landscape
      • Access to a skills training path to support you through your internship and beyond 
      • Completion of a financial services related project that benefits the local community, which you will present to a senior panel of judges towards the end of your internship
      • Opportunity to hear from senior speakers across the business 
      • Lunch and learn sessions to widen your knowledge of the FCA divisions and their work 
      • Social opportunities to network and engage with your intern cohort 

      Join us and make a positive change in financial services - we look forward to receiving your application!

      PLEASE NOTE:   

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants must have obtained or be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 summer internship must be in their penultimate year of study, with a graduation year of 2026. 
      • For the 2025 Change Internship, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications. 

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Aspect Capital Research Internship 2025

      12 Dec 2024

      Aspect Capital Research Internship 2025

      Aspect Capital are actively recruiting for their summer 2025 Research Internship programme and we are delighted to be partnering with them to offer you these fantastic opportunities! Ideally internships will start in early July and last for 12 weeks, but Aspect Capital can offer some flexibility on dates and duration but would expect the internship to last no less than 10 weeks.

      Here at Aspect Capital we apply systematic quantitative research techniques across a broad spectrum of financial assets, products and markets to deliver returns to investors within a strict risk management framework. We achieve this through a disciplined and consistent investment philosophy designed to generate performance even in declining markets.

      You will have the opportunity to work in a thriving, dynamic, collegiate, multi-disciplinary research team, conducting projects in quantitative financial research and contributing to all areas of model development, portfolio construction, risk management and market access.

      There will be opportunities across our Research team, with a focus on one of Global Macro, Options, or Managed Futures.

      Your role:

      You will be responsible for your own set of projects, whilst also gaining valuable insight into the work of the team and the functioning of the fund as a whole. More specifically, the work will entail: 

      • Maintaining and developing mathematical investment models using simulation tools
      • Assessing and proposing portfolio improvements which are compatible with our stated risk management goals
      • Provide statistical analysis of market data in systematic mathematical investment strategy models
      • Generating and developing written research and strategy materials
      • Creating and maintaining investment management software

      Your experience:

      • You must have completed your second year working towards a numerate masters or PhD.

      You will need:

      • Programming ability in a high level language: MATLAB, R, Python or possibly Java
      • Strong oral and written communication skills including the ability to explain complex issues simply
      • Deductive reasoning skills and the ability to analyse and synthesise information for problem solving

      We will be even more interested if you have any of these:

      • Experience in selecting and applying analytical techniques to real world problems
      • Good understanding of statistics and probability
      • Basic knowledge of the financial markets

      If this sounds of interest then we’d love to hear from you, please upload your CV and either attach a covering letter or leave some notes in the comments box on the application form confirming whether there is an area you are particularly interested in and your availability to work in 2025.

      How to apply?

      To apply, click on the 'Apply Now' button below. You can then complete an application form for this programme, please contact us should you have any questions or need some assistance with your application. Contact EmployAbility by email at info@employ-ability.org.uk or call EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Change

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Change

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

      Programme Length: Two years 

      Programme Type: Rotational

      The Change Directorate provides project delivery and change expertise to deliver complex change within the FCA. There are many diverse teams within the division, from those who work with our business functions to understand more about what changes are required, to those who plan and structure the change and keep it safe through its delivery. This is a great opportunity to help manage the impact of change on the FCA and its processes and people.

      The Change Directorate are responsible for planning change and providing a pragmatic and collaborative approach to delivery. Joining the Change Directorate offers you the opportunity to work across a range of disciplines within Change including Project Management, Portfolio Management, Business Change and Business Analysis. As part of the graduate programme you’ll have the opportunity to specialise in a Change discipline and work towards gaining relevant qualifications/accreditations.

      As well as working closely with our business colleagues, you will also collaborate with our Architecture and Technology Communities for delivery of projects which include IT and system development and change. These communities provide the strategic direction and operational management of our IT systems, as well as the capabilities that design and deliver technical solutions.

      LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

      As a graduate in Change you’ll complete the training pathway through our training Academy, which will equip you with all the skills you need. You will have rotations of six months and, in your last rotation, you will have chosen your discipline to specialise in and commence the relevant qualifications.

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      Our staff have diverse backgrounds, and no specific degree stands out as being essential, but you should be passionate about change, customer-focused and commercially minded. Within your degree, your hobbies or any form of internship work, volunteering or personal experiences, you may have managed an event or small project, supported or led others through solving a problem or resolving a conflict. You will need strong communication skills and an analytical mind and be confident working as part of a team and managing deadlines.

      WHAT WE OFFER

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      Beyond this, we offer all our graduates a competitive range of benefits, including: 

      • Base salary of £36,000  
      • Flexible working options
      • Private health care
      • Career and family leave 
      • Non-contributory pension
      • Charity and volunteering initiatives 
      • Minimum of 25 days’ holiday 
      • Sports and social clubs 
      • Subsidised on-site fitness centre (London only) 
      • Free eye tests 
      • Subsidised restaurant 
      • Interest-free season ticket loans.

      PLEASE NOTE:

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants must have obtained or be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 graduate programmes must have graduated or be in their final year of study. 
      • For the 2025 Change Graduate Programme, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications. 

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Human Resources

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Human Resources

      We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

      Programme Length: Two years 

      Programme Type: Rotational

      When you join us, you’ll gain invaluable experience and develop expert knowledge, learning from peers and executives across the FCA.

      The Human Resources division sits within the Operations Directorate, and there are four main departments within HR; HR Policy & Delivery, HR Business Partnering & Corporate Responsibility, Resourcing & Talent and Organisational Capability. The teams work closely across the FCA’s business areas, providing support and services internally at the FCA. The division has a truly inclusive feel with supportive teams who are always willing to assist you. The HR Graduate Programme is a great opportunity to get to grips with the fundamentals of HR and learn how to drive and effect transformational change in an evolving world.

      There’s a wide variety of teams and job roles within the Human Resources division and you’ll get the chance to work on a variety of projects on this rotational graduate programme.  Day to day, you could be gathering MI or running reports to identify trends in the business as part of the HR Policy & Delivery team or working in the Resourcing & Talent team to help run assessment centres and attend careers fairs. Similarly, you could be working on salary benchmarking exercises, managing change projects, or supporting the smooth running of our annual employee survey. Throughout the programme, you will be working with our expert HR team to plan for and shape the future and be able to implement real change.

      LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

      As a graduate in Human Resources, we’ll equip you with all the skills you need, while also giving you support to achieve your Level 5 HR Apprenticeship with CIPD. You’ll learn on the job from our HR experts and be surrounded by mentors, providing you with an excellent platform to begin your HR career.

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      Our staff have diverse backgrounds, and no specific degree stands out as being essential, but we're looking for somebody who is driven and able to think strategically. You’ll need to demonstrate your motivation to work at the FCA when applying, and be curious, customer-centric and passionate for change. You’ll also need to be a great communicator with first-class influencing skills.

      WHAT WE OFFER

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      Beyond this, we offer all our graduates a competitive range of benefits, including: 

      • Base salary of £36,000  
      • Non-contributory pension
      • Private health care
      • Minimum of 25 days’ holiday 
      • Recognition scheme
      • Discounts
      • Flexible working options
      • Career and family leave 
      • Charity and volunteering initiatives 
      • Sports and social clubs 
      • Subsidised on-site fitness centre (London only) 
      • Free eye tests 
      • Subsidised restaurant 
      • Interest-free season ticket loans  

      PLEASE NOTE:

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants must have obtained or be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 HR graduate programmes must have graduated or be in their final year of study
      • For the 2025 HR Graduate Programme, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications.

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Risk & Compliance

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Risk & Compliance

      We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

      Location: London or Edinburgh

      Programme Length: Two years 

      Programme Type: Rotational

      The Risk and Compliance Oversight Division (R&CO) is the FCA’s second line of defence. We work in partnership with senior management, members of the Board and colleagues across the organisation to ensure the effective management of Own Risks (operational, execution and public confidence risks) to enable the FCA’s management of Risks of Harm which could threaten the achievement of the FCA’s statutory objectives.

      We provide the organisation with tools and processes, as well as expertise, advice, and challenge on the effectiveness of risk management across the business. The Division also handles independent investigations and complaints into the FCA’s own conduct. As a colleague in R&CO you have the opportunity to get involved in a variety of second line work, including:

      • Enhancing and implementing our Risk Management Framework
      • Providing ongoing guidance and oversight of risk management
      • Providing assurance
      • Reporting the quality and effectiveness of risk management and decision-making to executive and board committees
      • Managing Independent Reviews
      • Compliance Oversight
      • Complaints Investigations

      Working in R&CO, you will be an impartial voice in the FCA, providing strong, independent oversight of the organisation’s activities and approach, through challenge and assurance.

      The job will give you exposure to a variety of roles performed by the division in tune with the above responsibilities. Within the departments they will discuss with you what you are interested in and the available work that you can lead on/get involved in and find a role that best suits your requirements. This could include:

      • Risk Operations where you may work on various aspects of the framework and policies that the business should be following and benchmarking themselves against.
      • Risk Advisory where you may get involved in working with different parts of the organisation, challenging them when we think they’re not taking into account the relevant risks.
      • In the Independent Investigations, Complaints & Assurance team you may get involved in independent investigations and complaints on behalf of the FCA. 

      LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

      As a graduate in Risk & Compliance, you’ll complete the training pathway through our training Academy which will equip you with all the technical skills and business understanding you need for a career with us.

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      We are seeking graduates from any degree discipline.  You need to be resilient, analytical and confident in using your judgement in making regulatory decision. You will be curious and able to gather relevant information whilst building relationships across the organisation.  An interest in governance and compliance is beneficial.

      WHAT WE OFFER

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      Beyond this, we offer all our graduates a competitive range of benefits, including: 

      • Base salary of £36,000
      • Flexible working options
      • Private health care
      • Career and family leave
      • Non-contributory pension
      • Charity and volunteering initiatives
      • Minimum of 25 days’ holiday
      • Sports and social clubs
      • Subsidised on-site fitness centre (London only)
      • Free eye tests
      • Subsidised restaurant
      • Interest-free season ticket loans.

      PLEASE NOTE:

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants must have obtained or be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 graduate programmes must have graduated or be in their final year of study. 
      • For the 2025 Risk & Compliance Graduate Programme, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications. 

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Authorisations

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Authorisations

      We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

      Location: London or Edinburgh

      Programme Length: Two years 

      Programme Type: Rotational

      Authorisations is the FCA’s supervisory gateway – we decide who can undertake regulated activities in the UK.

      As the first point of contact for firms and individuals wanting to provide regulated financial services, working in Authorisations means you’ll see the start of a firm’s supervisory journey. The work is challenging but varied. As a gateway supervisor, you’ll make decisions on whether to approve applications from firms and individuals. We get applications spanning a range of sectors and different financial models, including:

      • retail and wholesale banks
      • crypto firms
      • credit unions
      • insurance firms
      • non-bank lenders
      • debt purchasers and debt management firms
      • e-money firms
      • investment intermediaries
      • firms who want to add wholesale permissions and products to their sales offering

      Authorisations is also the home of our Supervision Hub.  Supervision Hub staff quickly need to learn all about the full range of business the FCA undertakes and be able to communicate that to firms and consumers who contact us.   It’s also a key area for the FCA in sourcing intelligence used across the organisation to help us ensure an appropriate degree of protection for consumers and maintain market integrity; the Supervision Hub is a stretching, challenging place to work and is recognised as one of the best places to work to learn about almost all aspects of regulation. 

      Authorisations also has several key operational teams including those focused on ensuring the smooth running of the directorate, the operation of the Financial Services Register (which is available to the public and used by millions of firms and consumers) and the systems that firms use to tell us about changes to their activities and key personnel.

      LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

      As a graduate in Authorisations, you’ll have the opportunity to study towards an Apprenticeship, Professional Qualification or enrol on a development pathway relevant to your graduate programme. We will also give you the support you need to develop your career at the FCA.

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      We are seeking graduates from any degree discipline.  You need to be resilient, analytical and confident in using your judgement in making regulatory decision. You will be curious and able to gather relevant information whilst building relationships across the organisation.  An interest in governance and compliance is beneficial.

      WHAT WE OFFER

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      Beyond this, we offer all our graduates a competitive range of benefits, including: 

      • Base salary of £36,000  
      • Flexible working options
      • Private health care
      • Career and family leave 
      • Non-contributory pension
      • Charity and volunteering initiatives 
      • Minimum of 25 days’ holiday 
      • Sports and social clubs 
      • Subsidised on-site fitness centre (London only) 
      • Free eye tests 
      • Subsidised restaurant 
      • Interest-free season ticket loans.

      PLEASE NOTE:

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants must have obtained or be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 graduate programmes must have graduated or be in their final year of study. 
      • For the 2025 Authorisations Graduate Programme, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications. 

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Market Oversight

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Market Oversight

      We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

      Programme Length: Two years 

      Programme Type: Rotational

      The Market Oversight programme is an exciting opportunity to keep your finger on the pulse of the UK financial system. You’ll help ensure financial markets are fair and work effectively by monitoring the securities market for cases of serious misconduct.

      In Listings, you’ll review documentation relating to capital market transactions, prospectuses, or seculars, before it gets published to market. Primary Market Oversight focuses on companies and makes sure they are compliant with regulation, while Secondary Market Oversight looks at the conduct of investors, including suspicious trading activity and market abuse. Here you’ll develop cases for suspected market abuse, analyse financial information and present your findings to team members. Our Market Oversight Data and Intelligence department aims to deliver impactful technology solutions to integrate various data workstreams, as well as develop innovative tools to advance the Directorate's vision.

      You can expect to be negotiating our local and international policy positions, reviewing Initial Public Offering (IPO) documents and you could even force a company to make an announcement relating to inside information leaks. You’ll be given your own work streams from the get-go and will be given autonomy to lead projects and make your own judgements. Your recommendations can feed into decisions made at every level of the FCA. Making the ‘what next’ decision after university isn’t easy, but if you want variety, challenge and genuine responsibility, our Market Oversight Graduate Programme could be the right choice for you.

      LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

      As a graduate in Market Oversight, you’ll have the opportunity to study towards an Apprenticeship, Professional Qualification or enrol on a development pathway relevant to your graduate programme. We will also give you the support you need to develop your career at the FCA.

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      We value diversity of thought and therefore welcome applications from graduates with all types of degrees. We look for people who have an interest in the financial wholesale market and those who enjoy solving problems using analytics. You’ll build strong relationships and be a brilliant communicator, both in person and in writing. Learning on the job is a natural part of this programme, so we don't expect you to have a detailed knowledge of regulatory matters, though an interest in the UK regulatory system would be beneficial.

      WHAT WE OFFER

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      Beyond this, we offer all our graduates a competitive range of benefits, including: 

      • Base salary of £36,000  
      • Flexible working options
      • Private health care
      • Career and family leave 
      • Non-contributory pension
      • Charity and volunteering initiatives 
      • Minimum of 25 days’ holiday 
      • Sports and social clubs 
      • Subsidised on-site fitness centre (London only) 
      • Free eye tests 
      • Subsidised restaurant 
      • Interest-free season ticket loans.

      PLEASE NOTE:

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants must have obtained or be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 graduate programmes must have graduated or be in their final year of study. 
      • For the 2025 Market Oversight Graduate Programme, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications. 

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Operations

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Operations

      We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

      Programme Length: Two years 

      Programme Type: Rotational

      Operations provides the platform and tools to enable the organisation to deliver on its statutory objectives. We have an exciting Operations strategy and transformation agenda to ensure continuous improvement and growth.

      Operations works in partnership with the rest of the organisation to provide specialist support across a wide range of areas, delivering quality services and value for money. The vision of Operations is to: 

      • drive operational excellence and resilience across the FCA
      • deliver quality services and support across the business
      • be trusted strategic partners that bring solutions to the table, developing and shaping the FCA

      A career in Operations provides you with an opportunity to learn how to build strong relationships with people from across the entire organisation and establish an understanding of the wider business. No matter which area you work in, you can push yourself beyond your comfort zone, safe in the knowledge that you have all the support you need to grow.

      If you like variety, Operations is the division for you, with opportunities in:

      • Communications – setting and delivering the FCA’s communications and engagement strategy
      • Workplace Solutions – setting and managing the FCA’s work environment strategy 
      • Finance – managing the FCA’s budget and finances
      • Operational Resilience – setting and delivering the FCA’s first line of defence
      • Procurement – delivering value for money and reducing risk throughout our third-party supplier network
      • Strategy – designing and delivering the current (2022-2025) and future (2025-2030) FCA Strategy

      LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

      As a graduate in Operations, you’ll have the opportunity to study towards an Apprenticeship, Professional Qualification or enrol on a development pathway relevant to your graduate programme. We will also give you the support you need to develop your career at the FCA.

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      Our graduate programme is for ambitious people who want to make a difference and shape the FCA’s future. If you’re looking to develop professionally, and you care about the efficient running of businesses, this is the place for you.

      WHAT WE OFFER

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      Beyond this, we offer all our graduates a competitive range of benefits, including: 

      • Base salary of £36,000  
      • Flexible working options
      • Private health care
      • Career and family leave 
      • Non-contributory pension
      • Charity and volunteering initiatives 
      • Minimum of 25 days’ holiday 
      • Sports and social clubs 
      • Subsidised on-site fitness centre (London only) 
      • Free eye tests 
      • Subsidised restaurant 
      • Interest-free season ticket loans.

      PLEASE NOTE:

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants must have obtained or be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 graduate programmes must have graduated or be in their final year of study. 
      • For the 2025 Operations Graduate Programme, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications. 

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Supervision, Policy & Competition - Generalist Stream

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Supervision, Policy & Competition - Generalist Stream

      We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

      Locations: London, or Edinburgh

      Programme Length: Two years 

      Programme Type: Rotational

      Bring your passion for problem solving and strategic thinking into the constantly evolving world of financial regulation. 

      To give you an insight into the range of the work we do, Supervision, Policy & Competition (SPC) oversees every business and individual we regulate, ensuring they behave appropriately and meet our standards. We are responsible for developing and maintaining the FCA’s policies and rules, as well as considering issues under our competition powers. The work of SPC is vital to delivering the FCA’s objectives of protecting consumers, maintaining the integrity of financial markets, and promoting competition in the interests of consumers.

      SPC is led by Sheldon Mills Executive Director for Consumer and Competition and Sarah Pritchard Executive Director for Markets & International. SPC is the largest division within the FCA and is responsible for:

      • Monitoring the sectors by reviewing and assessing business models, providing guidance and planning future changes
      • Delivering and integrating effective Policy insights into our competition and supervisory work - this helps to ensure markets function well and better enables us to identify and avoid consumer harm
      • Engaging with firms to ensure interests of consumers and integrity of markets is at the heart of their business
      • Exploring and analysing identified risks within firms through firm-specific and cross-firm work 
      • Supporting diversity and inclusion across the industry
      • Ensuring firms behave appropriately when detriment arises
      • Prudential supervision of all firms not regulated by the PRA
      • Working with trade bodies, advisers and other third parties to help identify and communicate trends, and gauge the horizon of risks in the market

      You’ll have the opportunity to move around and develop a breadth of skills and experiences to help you progress your career. You could be reviewing business models and analysing identified risks, developing and delivering new policy proposals or engaging with firms to ensure they put consumers at the heart of their business and respond appropriately when detriment arises. You’ll complete 4 x 6-month rotations across our 12 SPC directorates as well as the opportunity to complete a rotation outside of SPC in your third rotation.

      LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

      As a graduate in Supervision, Policy and Competition, you’ll have the opportunity to study towards an Apprenticeship, Professional Qualification or enrol on a development pathway relevant to your graduate programme. We will also give you the support you need to develop your career at the FCA.

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      Our staff have diverse backgrounds, and no specific degree stands out as being essential for the Generalist stream. You’ll learn a lot on the job, so we don’t expect you to have a detailed regulatory knowledge, however, you should have an interest in governance. You’ll also need to be strategically minded, great at building strong relationships at all levels and be able to influence and persuade. 

      WHAT WE OFFER

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      Beyond this, we offer all our graduates a competitive range of benefits, including: 

      • Base salary of £36,000  (£33,000 for Edinburgh)
      • Flexible working options
      • Private health care
      • Career and family leave 
      • Non-contributory pension
      • Charity and volunteering initiatives 
      • Minimum of 25 days’ holiday 
      • Sports and social clubs 
      • Subsidised on-site fitness centre (London only) 
      • Free eye tests 
      • Subsidised restaurant 
      • Interest-free season ticket loans.

      PLEASE NOTE:

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants must have obtained or be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 graduate programmes must have graduated or be in their final year of study. 
      • For the 2025 Supervision, Policy and Competition Generalist Graduate Programme, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications. 

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Supervision, Policy & Competition - Specialist Stream

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Supervision, Policy & Competition - Specialist Stream

      We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

      Locations: London, or Edinburgh

      Programme Length: Two years 

      Programme Type: Rotational

      To give you an insight into the range of the work we do, Supervision, Policy & Competition (SPC) oversees every business and individual we regulate, ensuring they behave appropriately and meet our standards. We are responsible for developing and maintaining the FCA’s policies and rules, as well as considering issues under our competition powers. The work of SPC is vital to delivering the FCA’s objectives of protecting consumers, maintaining the integrity of financial markets, and promoting competition in the interests of consumers.

      SPC is led by Sheldon Mills Executive Director for Consumers and Competition and Sarah Pritchard Executive Director for Markets & International. SPC is the largest division within the FCA and is responsible for:

      • Monitoring the sectors by reviewing and assessing business models, providing guidance and planning future changes
      • Delivering and integrating effective Policy insights into our competition and supervisory work - this helps to ensure markets function well and better enables us to identify and avoid consumer harm
      • Engaging with firms to ensure interests of consumers and integrity of markets is at the heart of their business
      • Exploring and analysing identified risks within firms through firm-specific and cross-firm work 
      • Supporting diversity and inclusion across the industry
      • Ensuring firms behave appropriately when detriment arises
      • Prudential supervision of all firms not regulated by the PRA
      • Working with trade bodies, advisers and other third parties to help identify and communicate trends, and gauge the horizon of risks in the market

      You’ll have the opportunity to join our Specialist Directorate where the departments include Financial Crime, Financial Resilience, Resolution Strategy Operations & CASS, Resolution Insolvency, Technology Resilience & Cyber and the Office for Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering Supervision (OPBAS).  You could see yourself within one of our teams who lead on specialisms that cross the spectrum of the 50,000 regulated firms and, within OPBAS, having key objectives to reduce the harm of money laundering and terrorist financing in the 25 professional body supervisors that supervise thousands more professional firms. The work involves bringing respective intelligence and perspectives on the firms we regulate to provide a holistic view that can help mitigate root causes and one day, help predict the next issue on a firm. The work within the Directorate includes Policy, Data and Supervision focused work.

      LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

      As a graduate in Supervision, Policy and Competition, you’ll have the opportunity to study towards an Apprenticeship, Professional Qualification or enrol on a development pathway relevant to your graduate programme. We will also give you the support you need to develop your career at the FCA.

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      Our staff have diverse backgrounds, and no specific degree stands out as being essential for the Specialist stream. You’ll learn a lot on the job, so we don’t expect you to have a detailed regulatory knowledge, however, you should have an interest in governance and those with a particular interest in the risk specialisms outlined above would be well suited to this stream. You’ll also need to be strategically minded, great at building strong relationships at all levels and be able to influence and persuade.  

      WHAT WE OFFER

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      Beyond this, we offer all our graduates a competitive range of benefits, including: 

      • Base salary of £36,000  (£33,000 for Edinburgh)
      • Flexible working options
      • Private health care
      • Career and family leave 
      • Non-contributory pension
      • Charity and volunteering initiatives 
      • Minimum of 25 days’ holiday 
      • Sports and social clubs 
      • Subsidised on-site fitness centre (London only) 
      • Free eye tests 
      • Subsidised restaurant 
      • Interest-free season ticket loans.

      PLEASE NOTE:

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants must have obtained or be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 graduate programmes must have graduated or be in their final year of study. 
        For the 2025 Supervision, Policy and Competition Specialist Graduate Programme, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications. 

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Cyber Resilience

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Cyber Resilience

      We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

      Programme Length: Two years 

      Programme Type: Rotational

      Cyber Resilience is part of the Technology, Resilience and Cyber (“TRC”) department, which is a team responsible for assessing, developing, and implementing FCA strategy on the building of capability within firms and markets to defend against, and recover from, cyber-attacks. We provide operational resilience expertise and specialist support to supervisors and various other teams across the FCA, and work to prevent cyber criminals from undermining confidence in the UK’s financial sector.

      You’ll have a chance to work with a variety of firms such as retail and wholesale banks, insurance firms and asset managers, and with senior leaders within those firms, to focus on the approaches being taken to various aspects of technology and cyber risk within the financial sector. You’ll be able to help progress our strategy to be increasingly data-led; and you will have the opportunity to work on implementation of cyber resilience policy into firm-supervision, working with regulated firms to assess their capabilities; and you will have the chance to broaden your network and experience by working alongside other regulatory bodies such as the Bank of England and HM Treasury.

      If you are looking for a varied role and the opportunity to build an in-depth knowledge of cyber resilience, this could be the role for you.

      What does the role involve? What are the key responsibilities?   

      • Analysing business models, systems and controls to identify potential cyber resilience weaknesses. 
      • Working with stakeholders across the FCA to propose solutions for issues identified.
      • Building and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including disseminating knowledge.
      • Escalating risks, issues and other points of note in a timely manner.
      • Working in a fast-paced, challenging and supportive environment with a team of people who want to deliver the same excellence you do. You will have the opportunity to provide input and suggestions into how to improve our processes.
      • You will need to be able to juggle several competing pieces of work at once, ensuring deadlines are met.
      • Supporting market-wide initiatives as well as engagement groups for cyber security.
      • Applying and continually enhancing your acquired knowledge.

      What will the candidate get from the role? 

      This is an incredibly interesting time to join the FCA’s team of cyber security and resilience specialists. In the role you will get the opportunity to:

      • Be at the heart of helping to develop and deliver the FCA’s cyber strategy.
      • Help mitigate harms to consumers as a result of the impacts of cyber-attacks on regulated entities.
      • Shape the FCA’s approach to cyber issues both internally and externally.
      • Work with and influence a range of stakeholders and industry professionals both within and outside the FCA.
      • Work in a fast-paced and stretching environment, to grow your expertise in all aspects of cyber.
      • Work alongside and as part of a team of dedicated cyber security and resilience professionals.
      • Observe a range of cyber security incidents as they occur from the perspective of the FCA’s business resilience team.

      LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

      As a graduate in Cyber Resilience, you’ll have the opportunity to study towards an Apprenticeship, Professional Qualification or enrol on a development pathway relevant to your graduate programme. We will also give you the support you need to develop your career at the FCA.

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      We are seeking graduates from any degree discipline.  You need to be resilient, analytical and confident in using your judgement in making regulatory decision. You will be curious and able to gather relevant information whilst building relationships across the organisation.  An interest in governance and compliance is beneficial.

      WHAT WE OFFER

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      Beyond this, we offer all our graduates a competitive range of benefits, including: 

      • Base salary of £36,000
      • Flexible working options
      • Private health care
      • Career and family leave 
      • Non-contributory pension
      • Charity and volunteering initiatives 
      • Minimum of 25 days’ holiday 
      • Sports and social clubs 
      • Subsidised on-site fitness centre (London only) 
      • Free eye tests 
      • Subsidised restaurant 
      • Interest-free season ticket loans.

      PLEASE NOTE:

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants must have obtained or be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 graduate programmes must have graduated or be in their final year of study. 
      • For the 2025 Cyber Resilience Graduate Programme, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications. 

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: DTI Cyber Security

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025:  DTI Cyber Security

      We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

      Programme Length: Two years (3 x 6 month rotations in home department, 1 x 6 month rotation in external department)

      Programme Type: Rotational

      In Data, Technology & Innovation (DTI), we are transforming the way the FCA analyses and uses the data, intelligence, and information we receive so that we can spot harm and act sooner, enabling us to regulate the firms more effectively we oversee.

      DTI provides IT and Data services to the rest of the FCA. It is split in to three directorates: Data and Innovation, Digital Product and Technology. There are many diverse teams within these divisions who design and develop our technological solutions and manage and maintain technology and data so it’s available to all across the FCA.

      This graduate role will focus on Cyber Security within DTI and the wider FCA. You will be working within the Technology Resilience department under our exciting security team.

      WHAT WORK CAN YOU EXPECT

      Working within Cyber Security you can expect to have direct hands-on technical experience with computing software, including ownership of component development. You will be accountable for elements of security tooling and direct involvement with automation and orchestration technology enhancing our security posture. You will gain crucial experience and skills needed for a Security Engineer and work within a cross collaborative environment with senior engineers and analysts to provide a DevSecOps lens on how our team function.

      There is also opportunity for you to work with multiple different security teams across the FCA, including our strategy and architecture team and cyber and information resilience team for a rotation.

      LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

      Throughout your time at the FCA, you will be able to advance your capabilities through training initiatives, such as e-learning, access to a wide range of self-service learning platforms and portals as well as access to regular seminars with suppliers, academics and thought leaders.

      You’ll be supported by our experienced technologists, who will mentor you throughout your time on the graduate programme. You can also join one of our communities of practice related to your specialism. This means you will benefit from the knowledge of others and have opportunities to share your knowledge while developing critical business skills. Our graduates present their work to large audiences internally and externally, contribute to technology delivery for the wider organisation, and work together to ensure technology delivers our strategic outcomes.

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      Our Cyber team are an extremely fast paced environment and thus we are looking for someone with experience working with Technology. We are specifically looking for someone who has experience with Python and/or PowerShell. Alongside these engineering skills, it is important that you have an understanding for scripting for security tools, as well as understanding and debugging existing scripts or scripts provided by third parties.

      As well as your technical focus you should be customer-focused and commercially minded. You will need strong communication skills and an analytical mind.

      WHAT WE OFFER

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      Beyond this, we offer all our graduates a competitive range of benefits, including: 

      • Base salary of £36,000
      • Flexible working options
      • Private health care
      • Career and family leave 
      • Non-contributory pension
      • Charity and volunteering initiatives 
      • Minimum of 25 days’ holiday 
      • Sports and social clubs 
      • Subsidised on-site fitness centre (London only) 
      • Free eye tests 
      • Subsidised restaurant 
      • Interest-free season ticket loans.

      PLEASE NOTE:

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants must have obtained or be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 graduate programmes must have graduated or be in their final year of study. 
      • For the 2025 DTI Cyber Security Graduate Programme, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications.  

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: Leeds DTI Digital Hub

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025:  Leeds DTI Digital Hub

      We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

      Programme Length: Two years (3 x 6 month rotations in home department, 1 x 6 month rotation outside of home)

      Programme Type: Rotational

      In Data, Technology & Innovation (DTI), we are transforming the way the FCA analyses and uses the data, intelligence, and information we receive so that we can spot harm and act sooner, enabling us to regulate the firms more effectively we oversee.

      DTI provides IT and Data services to the rest of the FCA. It is split in to three directorates: Data and Innovation, Digital Product and Technology. There are many diverse teams within these divisions who design and develop our technological solutions and manage and maintain technology and data so it’s available to across the FCA.

      The Leeds Digi Hub graduate programme is part of DTI’s newest Directorate, Digital Product. This sits within the newest department, The Digital Hub.

      The Digital Hub (DDH) is a growing FCA digital delivery capability, blending in-house digital teams with supplier partnerships to deliver and operate digital products at quality, pace and scale as well as supporting wider maturity initiatives such as Standardised Software Delivery, User Centred Design maturity and Agile ways of working.

      WHAT CAN I EXPECT FROM THE PROGRAMME?

      Delivery workstreams within DDH include Gateway forms delivering a new service for firms and individuals to apply to the FCA for regulatory transactions and The Register project which is modernising the way that the FCA publishes regulatory data for firms.

      Our department is split in to several workstreams which include:

      • Software Development
      • Incident/Support Issues
      • Supporting deployment, testing and documentation
      • User Centre Design
      • User Research
      • ServiceNow application and support
      • Content design

      Please note you will be placed in one of the areas above when you join the programme with the opportunity to join another team after your first rotation.

      LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

      Throughout your time at the FCA, you will be able to advance your capabilities through training initiatives, such as e-learning, access to a wide range of self-service learning platforms and portals as well as access to regular seminars with suppliers, academics and thought leaders.

      You’ll be supported by our experienced technologists, who will mentor you throughout your time on the graduate programme. You can also join one of our communities of practice related to your specialism. This means you will benefit from the knowledge of others and have opportunities to share your knowledge while developing critical business skills. Our graduates present their work to large audiences internally and externally, contribute to technology delivery for the wider organisation, and work together to ensure technology delivers our strategic outcomes.

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      Our staff have diverse backgrounds but are all passionate about technology. We don’t look for a degree in a specific discipline, but you need experience of development, delivery or management of technology and software. Within your degree, your hobbies or an internship you may have experience in areas such as building apps, developing websites, writing software, helping others setup up networks, or configuring technology platforms. Experience in Java and Angular is crucial to this role.

      As well as your technical focus you should be customer-focused and commercially minded. You will need strong communication skills and an analytical mind. You will also need to be able to facilitate communication between the technical and non-technical – able to listen to the needs of all stakeholders and ensure each are understood.

      WHAT WE OFFER

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      Beyond this, we offer all our graduates a competitive range of benefits, including: 

      • Base salary of £33,000
      • Flexible working options
      • Private health care
      • Career and family leave 
      • Non-contributory pension
      • Charity and volunteering initiatives 
      • Minimum of 25 days’ holiday 
      • Sports and social clubs 
      • Subsidised on-site fitness centre (London only) 
      • Free eye tests 
      • Subsidised restaurant 
      • Interest-free season ticket loans.

      PLEASE NOTE:

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants must have obtained or be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 graduate programmes must have graduated or be in their final year of study. 
      • For the 2025 DTI Leeds Digital Hub Graduate Programme, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early 

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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    • Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025: DTI Generalist

      01 Dec 2024

      Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) EmployAbility Graduate Programme 2025:  DTI Generalist

      We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.

      ABOUT THE FCA

      At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face.  We’re looking for graduates to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA. 

      ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

      Programme Length: Two years

      Programme Type: Rotational


      In Data, Technology & Innovation (DTI), we are transforming the way the FCA analyses and uses the data, intelligence, and information we receive so that we can spot harm and act sooner, enabling us to regulate the firms more effectively we oversee.

      DTI provides IT and Data services to the rest of the FCA. It is split in to three directorates: Data and Innovation, Digital Product and Technology. There are many diverse teams within these divisions who design and develop our technological solutions and manage and maintain technology and data so it’s available to all across the FCA. This graduate scheme will focus on managing and supporting Technology and Data to the wider FCA.

      What department will I join and what will I be doing? 

      You will be placed in one of the following departments and will stay there for the length of your programme.

      Knowledge and Information Management: Knowledge, Information & Insight (KI&I) is a multi-disciplinary function at the cutting edge of driving information, records, knowledge management and cultural change across the FCA. We work to transform information, records and knowledge management so these assets are managed robustly across the life-cycle; drive compliance, positive behaviours and a culture of curiosity and collaboration. We support all our colleagues across the FCA to be an effective regulator, and to meet the FCA’s objectives and legal obligations.

      Strategy and Architecture: S&A underpins the technology strategic direction and how new technologies fit within our current systems and networks. This includes strategic planning, architecture roadmap development and design governance. You will gain a holistic view of the current and emerging technologies that the FCA depends upon. The role would require an initial shadowing of the domain leads, following by the allocation of discrete and tangible pieces of work, to contribute to the overall formation of strategy, and is translation into IT change. This would be a great introduction to technology architecture / enterprise architecture, and a great opportunity to reach across all product teams and portfolio teams, that comprise the delivery vehicle of the IT enterprise.

      Innovation: The Innovation department within Data, Technology and Innovation (DTI) works to support the FCA in being an innovative regulator by leading and empowering innovation to drive beneficial and sustainable change. Our innovation services are designed to support innovative firms (FinTech/RegTech/EmTech) at any stage of maturity, from collaboration, initial idea and proof of concept, to obtaining authorisation and scaling up in the market (as relevant). We also provide critical research and insights to inform FCA activities and build thought leadership.

      This is an opportunity for FCA grads to be part of an exciting, high-profile department that provides unique insight into industry developments that are transforming the financial services industry.

      Enablement: Enablement focuses on the operational delivery of DTI and includes roles such as risk management, financial management, workforce planning and reporting. This Enablement team are great for anyone who wants to support the delivery of complex and fast paced directorates and the teams within them. You will work closely with management and senior leaders to turn strategy in to operational delivery.

      Digital Systems: Digital Systems department is part of DTI’s brand-new directorate: Digital Product Delivery. The department works with our third-party suppliers to ensure that the product needs are met for the wider FCA. Our department consist of Product Managers, Product Analysts and Scrum Masters who all look after their own respective products and software. You will also gain experience to software such as Workday and Salesforce whilst and gain an enhanced understanding of AGILE and DevSecOps delivery.

      LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

      Throughout your time at the FCA, you will be able to advance your capabilities through training initiatives, such as e-learning, access to a wide range of self-service learning platforms and portals as well as access to regular seminars with suppliers, academics and thought leaders.

      You’ll be supported by our experienced technologists, who will mentor you throughout your time on the graduate programme. You can also join one of our communities of practice related to your specialism. This means you will benefit from the knowledge of others and have opportunities to share your knowledge while developing critical business skills. Our graduates present their work to large audiences internally and externally, contribute to technology delivery for the wider organisation, and work together to ensure technology delivers our strategic outcomes.

      WHAT WE LOOK FOR

      Our staff have diverse backgrounds but are all passionate about technology. We don’t look for a degree in a specific discipline, but you should have some experience of development, delivery or management of technology and software. Within your degree, your hobbies, or an internship you may have experience in areas such as technological research.  As well as your technical focus you should be customer-focused and commercially minded. You will need strong communication skills and an analytical mind.

      WHAT WE OFFER

      We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:

      • providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work
      • maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers
      • looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for
      • promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected

      Beyond this, we offer all our graduates a competitive range of benefits, including: 

      • Base salary of £36,000
      • Flexible working options
      • Private health care
      • Career and family leave 
      • Non-contributory pension
      • Charity and volunteering initiatives 
      • Minimum of 25 days’ holiday 
      • Sports and social clubs 
      • Subsidised on-site fitness centre (London only) 
      • Free eye tests 
      • Subsidised restaurant 
      • Interest-free season ticket loans.

      PLEASE NOTE:

      • We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed. 
      • Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software. 
      • Applicants must have obtained or be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university. 
      • Applicants for the 2025 graduate programmes must have graduated or be in their final year of study. 
      • For the 2025 DTI Generalist Graduate Programme, submit your online application by Sunday 1st December 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications. 

      If you have any extenuating circumstances or require further information about the graduate programme, please contact EmployAbility on +44 (0)7776 090 508 or +44 (0)7852 764684, alternatively email us info@employ-ability.org.uk


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