Associate Director, Public Policy

Job title:

Associate Director, Public Policy

Company

Fidelity International

Job description

About the Opportunity Job Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: 23 February 2024

Title Public Policy, Associate Director

Department Public Policy

Location London, Cannon Street Office

Reports To Head of Public Policy and Enterprise Relationship Mgmt.

Level 7, Associate Director

We’re proud to have been helping our clients build better financial futures for over 50 years. How have we achieved this? By working together – and supporting each other – all over the world. So, join our Public Policy team to support the future of the business, our clients and our industry and feel like you’re part of something bigger.

About your team

The Public Policy team sits within the General Council division of Fidelity International. The group collaborates extensively across the organisation, deriving priorities from the business. The team in particular works closely with the Compliance, Pensions Policy, Sustainable Investing, Enterprise Relationship management and CEO office teams. We work together to drive the policy debate, direction, and outcomes in key jurisdictions so that our clients can continue to build better financial futures and our business can operate efficiently in the years to come.

About your role

The purpose of the Public Policy group at Fidelity International is to understand, interpret, and influence policy matters that are relevant to Fidelity’s business success. We do this through:

• Process: manage a centralised process used to support policy influence and policy maker engagement across the globe. We understand the business strategy, the policy changes that are impacting this strategy. We partner with the business to develop positions and then an engagement strategy to support the needed developments. We then share our positions and our progress against achieving our goals.
• Partner: to be effective, we partner internally and externally to understand the landscape and then prioritise our efforts where we can be impactful. We work closely with internal business stakeholders as well as with external associations, government departments and regulators to drive results.
• Prioritise: we ruthlessly prioritise our policy efforts, focusing on business priorities where we can influence and areas where we want to be visible.
• Engage: externally we engage extensively with governments, regulators and trade associations.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy – Working with the Head of Public Policy, you will support the advocacy of a policy landscape that is supportive of our strategic objectives.
• Convene – act as the convener on public policy topics in order to drive the delivery of firm positions and priorities. This requires working closely with colleagues in Communications, Marketing, Compliance and Business Management across all regions.
• Content – Manage organisational responses to policy consultations from the EU and/or UK, leveraging the expertise of the FIL business and industry forums as appropriate. This will include supporting Fidelity teams responding directly such as the Sustainable Investing, UK Pensions team, local Asia businesses. Additionally, you will be expected to write briefings, letters, consultation notes, position papers for internal and political audiences.
• Relationship Management – Externally, build and manage strong relationships with Industry Associations, relevant political leaders, policy makers, and other external agencies to influence the policy agenda and ensure the best possible operating environment for Fidelity International. Internally, build and manage strong relationships with business leaders, compliance and other stakeholders to ensure effective collaboration and prioritisation.
• Support – Support FIL business leaders in their representation in government and industry bodies through briefings and facilitation as required. Act as a point person for external trade bodies including filtering information from these organisations and disseminating as required.
• Tracking / Reporting – Deliver evidence and briefing materials for policy engagement agreed with business
• Draft and maintain policy positions for internal (and external where relevant) consumption
• Track organisation’s engagements to support regulatory reporting and analysis

About you

• Knowledge of key issues impacting financial services – and ability to understand how these issues may impact current and future FIL business strategy
• Knowledge of the workings of UK Government departments and/or knowledge of EU institutions and legislative processes.
• Strong writing skills for drafting briefings, position papers, notes of meetings and responses to consultation documents.
• Strong presentation skills with track record of effectively presenting to regulatory bodies, government, industry events and media in order to deliver change.
• Ability to read quickly and to summarise documents/statements/political statements from Government bodies.
• German or French language skills would be highly beneficial, but not essential
• Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders of all levels.
• Able to work on own initiative and as part of a team.

Feel rewarded

For starters, we’ll offer you a comprehensive benefits package. We’ll value your wellbeing and support your development. And we’ll be as flexible as we can about where and when you work – finding a balance that works for all of us. It’s all part of our commitment to making you feel motivated by the work you do and happy to be part of our team. For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.

For more about our work, our approach to dynamic working and how you could build your future here, visit careers.fidelityinternational.com.

As an international financial services organisation, we are in-scope of international regulations in the way that we carry out our work. This position is involved in work that is regulated by the FCA and/or the PRA and their Individual Conduct Rules (COCON) apply to it, along with any other regulation. We provide training on COCON and how it affects our employees. More information about COCON can be found in the Employment Handbook.

Expected salary

Location

United Kingdom

Job date

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 04:51:44 GMT

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