2025 Operations Graduate Programme

About Us

At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. 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 interns to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA.?

About the Programme

Programme Length: Two years
Programme Type: Rotational

Operations provides the platform and tools to enable the organisation to deliver on its statutory objectives. We have an exciting Operations strategy and transformation agenda to ensure continuous improvement and growth.

Operations works in partnership with the rest of the organisation to provide specialist support across a wide range of areas, delivering quality services and value for money. The vision of Operations is to:

• drive operational excellence and resilience across the FCA
• deliver quality services and support across the business
• be trusted strategic partners that bring solutions to the table, developing and shaping the FCA

A career in Operations provides you with an opportunity to learn how to build solid relationships with people from across the entire organisation and establish an understanding of the wider business. No matter which area you work in, you can push yourself beyond your comfort zone, safe in the knowledge that you have all the support you need to grow.

If you like variety, Operations is the division for you, with opportunities in:

• Communications – setting and delivering the FCA’s communications and engagement strategy
• Workplace Solutions – setting and managing the FCA’s work environment strategy
• Finance – managing the FCA’s budget and finances
• Operational Resilience – setting and delivering the FCA’s first line of defence
• Procurement – delivering value for money and reducing risk throughout our third-party supplier network
• Strategy – designing and delivering the current (2022-2025) and future (2025-2030) FCA Strategy

Learning & Development

As a graduate in Operations, you’ll have the opportunity to study towards an Apprenticeship, Professional Qualification or enrol on a development pathway relevant to your graduate programme. We will also give you the support you need to develop your career at the FCA.

What We Look for

Our graduate programme is for ambitious people who want to make a difference and shape the FCA’s future. If you’re looking to develop professionally, and you care about the efficient running of businesses, this is the place for you.

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 solid 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

Beyond this, we offer all our graduates a competitive range of benefits, including:

• Base salary of £36,000
• Non-contributory pension
• Private health care
• Minimum of 25 days’ holiday
• Recognition scheme
• Discounts
• Adaptable working options
• Career and family leave
• Charity and volunteering initiatives
• Sports and social clubs
• Subsidised on-site fitness centre (London only)
• Free eye tests
• Subsidised restaurant
• Interest-free season ticket loans

Please note:

• We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed.
• Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software.
• Applicants must have obtained or be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university.
• Applicants for the 2025 graduate programmes must have graduated or be in their final year of study.
• We recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications.