Business Banking Policy Adviser

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Job description

Are you looking for a stretching and high-profile role with the opportunity to shape Government policy in a wide-ranging and fast-paced area? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

About the Team

We are looking to recruit a Business Banking Policy Adviser which sits within the Financial Services Group of the Banking and Credit Team. The Financial Services Group advises the government on how to promote a stable and efficient financial services sector, to deliver excellent outcomes for consumers and business, enhance the UK's position as a global hub for financial services and support economic growth across the country.

The financial services sector is important to the UK economy - providing significant numbers of jobs and making a large contribution to the UK's economic output. It also provides essential services to individuals - for example, helping them to purchase goods with ease, buy their first home, and plan for their retirement. During the COVID pandemic, it played a critical role in supporting individuals and businesses - for example, in providing payment holidays for individuals and businesses affected by the pandemic and working with the government to deliver Bounce Back Loans.

About the Job

In this role, you will:

• Proactively drive forward our development and delivery of business banking policy.
• Advise senior officials and Ministers on key issues related to business banking and competition.
• Look holistically at how the current regulatory framework is impacting competition in the wider domestic banking sector.
• Lead external stakeholder engagement for the Business Lending and Competition Unit, develop a strategy to support policy development and effective senior/ministerial engagement, and forge strong and collaborative relationships across industry, financial regulators and other government teams.
• Provide high-quality support for senior and ministerial engagement with the SME finance sector.
• Respond to parliamentary, public and press activity/enquiries.
• Act as a key point of contact for the business banking and domestic competition policy areas, dealing with issues and queries as they arise in a timely manner and with sound judgement.
• Provide high-quality, flexible support to other areas of the unit's work, such as the Dormant Assets Scheme, as needed.

About You

The successful candidate will have the ability to evaluate complex information and evidence, balancing trade-offs to develop evidence-based policy advice, and communicate a recommendation in an accessible way to senior decision makers. You will be able to autonomously deliver high quality work across short- and long- term objectives, in the face of a dynamic and changing work environment. You'll have strong communication skills, with an ability to develop a meaningful partner network across government and industry to progress policy areas and represent government positions.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King's birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous parental and adoption leave packages
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28%
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity (e.g. women in the Treasury, ethnic minority network, LGBT network, faith and belief network)

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at

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