Job Title: Lead Associate - Regulatory Finance
Job Type: Contract (12-months)
Location: London
Day Rate: £450 - £600

Opportunity Overview: A fantastic opportunity has opened to temporarily join my client, an independent economic regulator, as a Lead Associate - Regulatory Finance
We are recruiting for a Lead Associate - Regulatory Finance to help deliver our card fees work with an initial focus on profitability analysis, which may expand into the development of a regulatory financial reporting system. This is a key part of our strategy and one of the most complex and high-profile projects within my client's work programme

Role Objective: You will be responsible for leading on delivery of key outputs and associated analysis and drafting of reports to support our market review and associated remedies. This can include formulating and issuing data requests; collecting, collating and analysing evidence, with a particular focus on related financial modelling; drafting of internal and external consultations and decision papers; engaging with interested stakeholders - all of which will help my client to develop robust policy recommendations, often to challenging timescales. The role also includes commissioning and supervising the contribution of more junior staff (and associated coaching and training)

Key Responsibilities:
* Scope, design and deliver key outputs, which is likely to include robust financial analysis, including financial modelling, and the drafting of written outputs in our scheme and processing fees market review.
* Deputise for the technical specialist - regulatory finance, as appropriate
* Draft briefings, sections of papers and my client's publications, often within tight timeframes, communicating complex regulatory and financial concepts clearly to internal and external stakeholders.
* Support colleagues by providing quality assurance support and challenge to peers' analysis, proactively provide input and suggest workstreams and/or analytical approaches.
* Engagement with a wide variety of stakeholders to gather evidence, test analystical options and explain our approach. This may include drafting questions and data requests to relevant parties.
* Contribute to the development of my client's knowledge base, through knowledge sharing across my client's and providing peer review of others' work.
* You will also need to build effective relationships with key senior stakeholders internally and externally, engaging across the policy team and the wider company to understand the work of other teams and Divisions that is material to the work of the scheme and processing fees market review.

Requirements:
Essential
* Significant experience in financial analysis and financial modelling, underpinned by a detailed understanding of financial statements
* Experience in at least one of the following areas:
* Profitability analysis (eg in market reviews/market investigations or competition cases)
* Setting the cost of capital in regulatory price controls
* Regulatory financial reporting
* Strong written and oral communication skills, including explaining technical issues to non- technical audiences, and the ability to present confidently to both internal and external stakeholders. Experience of drafting public documents
* Strong time and project management skills, with a proven ability to prioritise effectively.

Desirable
* Accounting qualification, CFA or similar postgraduate qualification
* Experience in regulatory financial reporting
* Experience in cost benefit modelling
* Experience of working in the regulatory finance team of a regulator, consultancy or regulated entity
* Experience of working in the payments sector

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We are committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience. If you require accommodations because of disability or health condition, please email: gscemeaedi @ robertwalters.com. This position is being sourced through our Outsourcing service line.