We offer you the chance to start your career and make a real difference.
ABOUT US
At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating the conduct of over 59,000 businesses. 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 bright, enthusiastic and values driven summer interns to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA.
ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
Programme Length: Ten weeks
Programme Type: Summer placement
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, you could be placed 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 end up in, 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 2023 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
PLEASE NOTE:
We only accept ONE application per person for our 2023 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed.
For the 2023 Summer Internship Programme, please submit your online application by Sunday 26th February 2023. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications.
Applicants must in their penultimate year of study and on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university.
We work to ensure financial markets work well for individuals, for businesses and for the economy as a whole.
We do this by:
– regulating the conduct of approximately 50,000 businesses – prudentially supervising 48,000 firms – setting specific standards for around 18,000 firms
We were set up on 1 April 2013, taking over conduct and relevant prudential regulation from the Financial Services Authority (FSA).
Our Head Office is based in London, and we work across the UK, from our office in Edinburgh and via colleagues in Belfast and Cardiff.
Firms and individuals must be authorised or registered by us to carry out certain activities. Before we grant authorisation, firms must demonstrate that they meet a range of requirements. We then supervise these firms to make sure they continue to meet our standards and rules after they’re authorised. If firms and individuals fail to meet these standards, we have a range of enforcement powers we can use.
We work alongside the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), the prudential regulator of around 1,500 banks, building societies, credit unions, insurers and major investment firms.
