Policy Adviser Prudential Banking
- Civil Service
- Part Time
- Darlington
- 43,090 - 46,500
Job Description
Job summary
If youre interested in making a difference to peoples lives, the Treasury can offer an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate to promote responsible public spending and drive sustainable economic growth.
Our work ranges from protecting customers through financial regulation and supporting a greener economy, to promoting British trade and supporting people across the country on jobs and growth.
We are part of the Darlington Economic Campus, a cross-government hub bringing people together to work on key issues while being closer to the communities we serve. The campus enables people from across the UK to help shape the future, with flexible working supporting collaboration.
The Financial Services Group advises the government on promoting a stable and efficient financial services sector, delivering strong outcomes for consumers and businesses, enhancing the UKs position as a global financial hub, and supporting economic growth.
The sector is vital to the UK economy, creating jobs, contributing to output, and providing essential services such as payments, mortgages, and retirement planning. During COVID, it played a key role in supporting individuals and businesses, including payment holidays and Bounce Back Loans.
We ensure firms such as banks, investment firms, financial advisers and insurers are well regulated, treat customers fairly, and operate in a competitive market with safeguards when things go wrong.
We also lead an international agenda, promoting openness and strengthening trading links through Free Trade Agreements, working closely with overseas colleagues.
Collaboration with stakeholders is central to our work, including regulators, consumer groups and industry, to support policymaking and priorities such as net zero.
The Prudential and Sustainability Team has a varied and high-profile remit, developing policy on prudential regulation and sustainable finance. The team is made up of two units: one focused on prudential issues (where this role will sit) and one on sustainability.
In recent years, the team has delivered significant legislation, including the UKs approach to the final post-crisis reforms. It is also leading major changes to how UK banks and investment firms operate in overseas jurisdictions and delivering a programme to amend retained EU financial services legislation to ensure it works effectively for the UK.
This role sits within the Prudential and Sustainability team, although the wider structure of the Financial Services and Financial Stability Groups may evolve over time which could affect where in the department the role ultimately sits.
Job description
This is an exciting, multifaceted role at the heart of economic and financial policymaking, at a time when the legislative framework for financial services is evolving significantly. The role offers the successful candidate the opportunity to develop strong policy, legislative, and stakeholder engagement skills, while working on high-profile issues affecting the UKs financial system.
The team is responsible for policy relating to the Capital Requirements Regulation, Securitisation Regulations, the Investment Firms Prudential Regime, and the Capital Requirements Directive. This legislation, developed in response to the 2008 financial crisis, ensures that banks hold sufficient capital against risks and that securitisation markets operate safely and effectively.
The post holder will be expected to adapt to changes in the regulatory and policy environment for banking prudential regulation and securitisation regulation, but key responsibilities will include:
- Leading on key aspects of HM Treasurys work on the Financial Policy Committee (FPC) review of bank capital.
- Leading HMTs work on the prudential treatment of cryptoassets, in collaboration with the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
- Advising senior officials and Ministers on how UK regulators are implementing new rules on bank capital requirements and securitisation.
- Supporting HM Treasurys work assessing the impact of EU banking regulation on the UK and identifying appropriate mitigants to support the growth and competitiveness of the UK banking sector.
- Developing and maintaining a strong understanding of prudential regulation, including frameworks such as Basel 3.1 (the final set of post-crisis reforms relating to bank capital), and monitoring developments in other jurisdictions implementation and the implications for the UK.
- Supporting the development of securitisation policy, including providing advice to senior stakeholders on legislative requirements to enable regulator rulemaking.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships across the PRA, FCA, industry, and HM Treasury to support effective policymaking.
- Contributing to the wider work of the department to ensure financial regulation and policy supports competitiveness and growth, while maintaining financial stability.
This job requires:
- Good verbal and written communication skills to provide the best quality advice to seniors and ministers.
- Interpersonal skills to be able to take forward challenging long-term policy projects while delivering short-term tasks - such as briefing requests, at pace.
- The ability to develop and maintain working relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support and influence policy development.
- Sound judgement to make effective policy decisions and progress policy work in a fast-paced environment.
Candidate Drop-In Session
The hiring manager will be running a candidate drop-in session to give you greater insight about the role and HM Treasury, and ask any questions you might have. If you would like to join us, use the link below to join the call at the right time.
11am on 3 July 2026
Microsoft Teams meeting
Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/364016535611333?p=znO06jXnJmHLbYeTsE
Meeting ID: 364 016 535 611 333
Passcode: Dm3r5t8c
If you would like to speak to the hiring manager informally prior to the closing date, please contact Deeven Seyan ([email protected])
Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
Person specification
Application Stage
Application Form
Applications should consist of a CV including your employment history, and a 250-word statement demonstrating evidence of each of the below shortlisting criteria. Your CV and employment history wont be scored. Its used to give context to your application and support discussions at interview.
The panel will review applications and invite those that best demonstrate evidence of the shortlisting criteria below for interview. Please keep this in mind when writing your application.
Please note that only applications submitted through Civil Service Jobs will be accepted.
- Making Effective Decisions: Ability to look at complicated information, weigh up different options and clearly explain your recommendation
- Delivering at Pace: the ability to meet short-term demands while continuing to progress longer-term strategic work.
- Working Together: Ability to build good relationships with colleagues from different teams and use these connections to drive goals forward
The lead criterion is: Making Effective Decisions
If we receive a high volume of applications, well first sift using the lead criterion only. Those meeting the minimum score will then be assessed against all remaining criteria.
Interview Stage
If you are successful at the application stage, you will be invited to interview where you will be assessed against the following criteria:
- Behaviours: Making Effective Decisions, Delivering at Pace, Working Together, Communicating and Influencing
