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• 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 benefits include: Private healthcare, enhanced pension, life assurance, flexible benefits scheme, volunteering leave

Overview

This is an exciting opportunity to play a leading role in shaping prudential policy within a complex and evolving financial services landscape.

As a Prudential Policy Lead, you will operate in a senior, high-impact role developing and enhancing regulatory frameworks that support financial resilience across a diverse population of regulated firms.

Working at a senior level, you will lead complex policy initiatives, providing expert technical insight on capital adequacy, liquidity and risk management frameworks. You will work closely with supervision, policy, and external stakeholders to ensure regulatory approaches remain proportionate, effective and forward-looking.

This role is ideally suited to experienced prudential specialists from regulators or regulated firms who are looking to influence national policy and operate at the forefront of financial 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 a high-performing policy function at the centre of regulatory decision-making, working closely with supervision, risk and strategy teams.

The organisation offers:

• 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: Visa sponsorship is not available for this role. Successful applicants must have the right to work in the UK.