Director – Financial Services Policy

THE ROLE

We are looking to for a director to join Flint’s expanding financial services team. At a time of significant political and policy change, successful candidates will have a unique opportunity to support the continuing development of Flint’s business in this area and work on an exciting array of complex policy and regulatory issues for our clients.  

This will involve working closely with senior team members across Flint to advise clients on public policy, politics, regulation, and commercial strategy with a specific focus on UK financial services. Flint’s clients want to understand, in detail, how they can build a long-term strategy to thrive in an evolving policy environment. Our clients include asset managers, banks, financial market infrastructure (FMI) companies, fintechs and other financial institutions as well as alternatives, portfolio companies and corporates. 

The financial services team works across Flint’s London and our international offices in Brussels, Paris and Hong-Kong/Singapore with our advice often covering multiple jurisdictions. In this London-based role, you will focus both on our growing portfolio of UK clients and have the opportunity to work with our European and international colleagues.

As part of the Flint team, you will share insights about key policy challenges, to enable your clients to deliver the best possible outcomes. You will oversee multidisciplinary teams to deliver high quality outputs for our clients including monitoring, research, analysis and reports. You will also lead on business development, identifying and engaging with potential clients.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR – SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

We are seeking someone with deep expertise in financial services policy and/or regulation to lead client accounts and contribute to the growth of our business. This role will be pivotal in delivering strategic advice and technical policy or regulatory support to our wide range of financial services clients.

You will drive client accounts, manage high-performing teams, and ensure the delivery of high-quality services that exceed client expectations. You will also play a key role in business development, generating new opportunities, and expanding our financial services policy practice.

While this role will focus on financial services issues, there may also be an opportunity to work across other policy issues. Candidates should feel free to outline their experience in other policy areas in their application, but this is not a requirement.  

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Significant experience in financial services policy fields such as pensions, payments, fintech, crypto, investment management, banking with a demonstrated ability to advise on complex regulatory and policy challenges in these areas.
• A strong professional background in government, a regulator, consultancy, think tank, or industry body in managerial positions.
• A proven track record of managing projects and leading project teams in a fast-paced, delivery-focussed environments.
• Commercial acumen, with the ability to develop new business opportunities and deliver commercially viable solutions to clients.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to provide clear, concise advice to senior stakeholders, both in written and verbal forms.
• A collaborative leadership style, with a passion for mentoring and developing talent within the organisation.
• Experience and understanding of financial services policy issues in an EU context is desirable but not essential.

TO APPLY

Please submit your CV and a one-page cover letter (maximum 400 words) by 23:59 on 29 November 2024.

In your cover letter, please set out:

• How your experience aligns with the requirements of this role.
• Specific financial services policy areas you are knowledgeable in and have experience with.
• A brief description of a recent project where you successfully led a team on a significant financial service policy issue.

We will review applications as they arrive and may invite candidates to interview and potentially make appointments before the closing date.

ABOUT FLINT

Flint is a leading global strategy consultancy. We are advisers to some of the largest corporates, financial institutions, and investors in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. We work at the point where government and business meet, drawing on our blend of international expertise and experience to offer an authoritative perspective on both.

We work with organisations affected by political, policy, or regulatory change. Our clients are senior executives looking to improve the trajectory of their business, or to achieve commercial outcomes through policy or regulatory change. Flint helps them to drive their businesses forward.

We have offices in London, Brussels, Paris and Hong Kong & Singapore, as well as presence in a number of European capitals. We offer successful candidates the opportunity to advance within the company.

Flint takes care of its people. We enjoy challenging each other’s thinking and working hard on a wide variety of interesting and stimulating projects, while simultaneously respecting life outside Flint.

BENEFITS

• Private medical insurance for employees
• 5% contributory pension scheme
• Life Insurance policy
• Income Protection scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
• 25 days of holiday exclusive of bank holidays with additional days over Christmas Period
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Hybrid working arrangements with office attendance 3 days a week
• Lunch for all in the office once a week
• Access to Thrive – Mobile app for mental health and wellbeing
• Access to Crisis24 – worldwide security and health information service
• ZGP24 – Virtual GP and second medical opinion service

We are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and are determined to ensure that no application or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.