Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited
- Job title: Prudential Policy Lead
- Contract type: Permanent
- Employment type: Full-time (35 hours per week)
- Salary: £65,000 – £100,000 (dependent on experience)
- Location: London / Leeds / Edinburgh (hybrid working)
- Annual leave: 25 days plus bank holidays
- Other benefitsinclude: Private healthcare, enhanced pension, life assurance, flexible benefits scheme, volunteering leave
Overview
This is an excitingopportunity to play a leading role in shaping prudential policy within acomplex and evolving financial services landscape.
As a Prudential PolicyLead, you will operate in a senior, high-impact role developing and enhancingregulatory frameworks that support financial resilience across a diversepopulation of regulated firms.
Working at a seniorlevel, you will lead complex policy initiatives, providing expert technicalinsight on capital adequacy, liquidity and risk management frameworks. You willwork closely with supervision, policy, and external stakeholders to ensure regulatoryapproaches remain proportionate, effective and forward-looking.
This role is ideallysuited to experienced prudential specialists from regulators or regulated firmswho are looking to influence national policy and operate at the forefront offinancial regulation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, review and enhancement of prudential policy frameworks across multiple sectors
- Deliver complex, high-profile policy workstreams end-to-end, managing competing priorities and tight deadlines
- Conduct detailed analysis of capital adequacy, liquidity risk and firm behaviour to inform policy decisions
- Monitor market developments and emerging risks, translating insight into policy responses
- Provide expert technical advice and briefing to senior stakeholders
- Engage with industry, government and internal teams, including consultations and stakeholder management
- Support interpretation and implementation of regulatory requirements across firms
- Contribute to team capability, including mentoring and oversight of junior colleagues
Skills &Experience Required
Essential
- Significant experience in prudential regulation or prudential risk management within a regulator or regulated financial services firm
- Strong working knowledge of prudential frameworks, with expertise in one or more of:
- Basel (CRR/CRD)
- IFPR / ICARA
- ICAAP / ILAAP
- Payments or e-money prudential regimes
- Experience assessing capital adequacy, liquidity risk and wider risk management frameworks
- Proven track record of leading complex, long-term workstreams in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex regulatory topics clearly to senior stakeholders
- Ability to operate with autonomy, exercising strong judgement on complex policy issues
Desirable
- Experience working across multiple financial services sectors (e.g. investment firms, banking, payments, e-money)
- Exposure to regulatory policy development or implementation
- Experience engaging with external stakeholders, including government or industry bodies
Person Specification
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capability
- Confident communicator with the ability to influence senior audiences
- Highly organised and able to manage competing priorities
- Comfortable working in complex, evolving regulatory environments
- Collaborative team player with a proactive approach
The Team
You will join ahigh-performing policy function at the centre of regulatory decision-making,working closely with supervision, risk and strategy teams.
The organisationoffers:
- The opportunity to shape nationally significant prudential policy
- A collaborative and inclusive working culture
- Strong focus on professional development and learning
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
Please note: Visasponsorship is not available for this role. Successful applicants must have theright to work in the UK.
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