Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

9-5 role. Involved joining department meetings, team meetings, one-to-ones with managers, intro meetings with members of the team.

Working within Consumer Investments department investigating complaints against firms, working with different stakeholders. Also had two separate intern projects; one group, one individual.

Working on a data science project with another intern. Attending team meetings.

On a day to day the role involves a lot of internal and external meetings, reading up on regulatory matters, performing reviews, and working with others.

My role was as an Associate in the Insurance Directorate, where I worked in the Life Insurance team. I was responsible for two multi-firm projects, which required me to liaise with firms that we regulate and measure their adherence to a policy that is cur...

Day to day is working independently on projects/tasks contributing to the Risk function. Booking meetings with team members to touch base and present your contributions. Networking with colleagues who have a wealth of experience. Working within different...

I am in the supervision division. My team are referred individual cases. We then holistically review these cases and decide whether they should be closed, whether we should send feedback to the firm, or whether they should be escalated to another team bas...

Over my internship, I worked on a project to change process management within Authorisations. My day to day role was collating processes from different sources, creating best practice guides and creating a plan to form a new process committee within Auths...

Working in a data science unit as a data scientist involved researching methods, analysis, implementation, and stakeholder engagement.

Supervising firms to ensure they follow the regulations

My role involved attending daily meetings, networking, working on individual work projects and collaborative projects

Analysing data sets to support other divisions across the FCA. Investigated machine learning methods for ongoing optimisation projects. Assisted on organising an international event held at the Stratford office which covered the future of data in regulati...

I was working in the enforcement division on specific cases contributing to real case work. This involved document management and review for the case, as well as forming chronologies and timelines for investigations

Projects involving regulation and supervision of credit rating agencies

Communicating with firms and helping out on projects

I worked as a intern project manager and PMO, assisting the Change Directorate deliver projects to combat financial crime. This involved creating slide packs, reviewing documents, completing meeting minutes, and doing some data analysis.

Formulating and cleaning datasets before analysing data to obtain insights for the benefit of stakeholders. This involved applying data manipulation and visualisation skills in python as well as presenting discoveries.

I worked with the enforcement team and helped out on work for various operations. On a day-to-day basis it includes case management and reviewing information to maybe reach court proceedings. Gathering information and reviewing it.

Worked in the Change directorate under the Technology subdivision. I supported transition projects integrating new technology and tools by performing business analysis work and leading smaller project initiatives.

Review of documents and creating chronologies Drafting potential interview questions Drafting Information Requests Receive regular training