CMA1924 Director, Remedies, Business & Financial Analysis

Are you an experienced economics or finance professional with outstanding leadership, analytical and project management skills? Are you passionate about making a difference to the lives of consumers, businesses, and the whole economy?

This position offers an exciting, challenging and rewarding opportunity to join the Remedies, Business and Financial Analysis (RBFA) group at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and play a key role tackling the competition and consumer problems we find.

About the CMA

We help people, businesses, and the UK economy by promoting competitive markets and tackling unfair behaviour. Our work is wide ranging, ambitious and often new and challenging.

The RBFA group represent a centre of excellence in competition and regulatory finance. We provide professional expertise in business and financial analysis across the whole of the CMA’s caseload, designing remedies to resolve the problems we find.

What you will do

You will occupy a strategic position at the forefront of our organisation, working closely with the Senior Director – RBFA and a talented team from a variety of professional backgrounds, such as experts in law, finance, economics, and other disciplines.

You will deliver high-quality financial and business advice on CMA cases, ensuring the remedies we put into practice are both effective and capable of delivering substantial and sustained customer benefits. You will lead teams in investigating and analysing finance and commercial issues in regulatory, mergers, markets, consumer, antitrust and digital-focused projects. Your responsibility will extend to helping inform the CMA’s understanding of how business and markets are functioning, shaping decisions as to whether there is a competition or consumer concern.

You might find yourself developing and implementing major interventions in vital sectors such as digital markets, banking and healthcare, analysing profitability in markets as diverse as pharmaceuticals or funerals and leading reviews of key regulatory decisions by economic regulators in sectors such as aviation, energy or water.

Managing and developing staff is also a key part to the role.

What you will need

You will need a postgraduate business, finance, economics or accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, CIMA, CFA MA / MSc or MBA) or equivalent postgraduate experience, with familiarity with economics and financial theory and their practical application.

You will be expected to demonstrate significant commercial and financial insight in overseeing well-evidenced analytical work, as well as a track record of leading, managing and delivering complex projects.

Strong leadership skills and the ability to manage and develop high-calibre staff by providing high quality coaching and feedback is equally important. 

What we can offer you

The CMA is a hugely diverse, rewarding and stimulating place to work – an opportunity to work for the public good and to stretch and develop yourself in doing so. We offer generous benefits, including an excellent pension scheme with an average employer contribution of 27%, at least 25 days leave (increasing to 30 over five years), and generous maternity/paternity leave provision. You can also take advantage of interest-free season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme, our employee assistance programme, and our extensive flexible working options.

To find out more about this opportunity and about working for the CMA, please click on the APPLY button.

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Closing date: 11:55pm on Tuesday 29th August

As an RBFA Director, you will be accountable for the provision of high-quality advice on a broad range of business and financial issues and will take the lead for the design and implementation of remedies.  Typical responsibilities include:  

Overseeing high quality analysis of regulatory and competition finance issue:  

• You will oversee the assessment of the key commercial and financial issues in your projects. You will determine the evidence-gathering strategy, provide quality assurance for the work of your team and advise decision-makers on upon the implications of a broad range of commercial issues as they relate to the firms we investigate.   

Developing remedies: 

• You will ensure the effective design and implementation of remedies on projects including responsibility for leading the negotiation of merger and market remedies and overseeing their legal and practical implementation.  

 Leadership and management:   

• As part of the RBFA leadership team you will manage and develop the talents of RBFA team members, creating a learning and development culture which builds individual and team capability to deliver projects and programmes. This will include direct line management responsibility for 3-5 Assistant Directors.  
• You will be expected to build strong, collaborative working relationships with other senior leaders from different professional backgrounds to deliver effectively on the CMA’s objectives 
• Working with the Senior Director and the other RBFA Directors you will allocate staffing resources to project. You will identify requirements for external advice on financial and business advisory issues and manage the consultancy resources to provide it.  

Communication:   

• Communicate business, financial and regulatory insights effectively to senior internal and external stakeholders, ensuring this analysis supports the CMA in having maximum impact and that the organisation is recognised as being at the forefront of thinking in these areas  
• Represent the CMA to external audiences (e.g. ICN, OECD) on relevant professional issues  

Know-how and policy development:  

• You will develop the CMA’s policy, expertise and effectiveness on remedies and financial and business analysis issues through research, development of procedures and adoption of best practice.  

The CMA is seeking to appoint the best qualified candidate for this role and welcomes applications from under-represented groups.   

When completing your written application, please ensure you provide evidence, metrics, and examples (as far as you are able), in response to the Essential Criteria below, and against which your application will be assessed: The successful candidate must be willing to achieve SC Clearance.  

Essential Criteria  

• Postgraduate business, finance, economics or accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, CIMA, CFA MA / MSc or MBA) OR equivalent postgraduate experience, with familiarity with economics and financial theory and their practical application, and high levels of professional achievement.   
• A track record of leading, managing and delivering complex projects with defined resources and to tight timescales and a proven ability to provide thought leadership, combining commercial, analytical and interpretive experience.  
• Experience of effective and inclusive team leadership, recognising diversity and with the ability to manage and develop high-calibre staff by providing high quality coaching and feedback.   
• A track record of building strong relationships and working effectively with internal and external stakeholders to deliver high quality outcomes. 
• Excellent communication and representation skills (both oral and written) with experience of negotiating and exerting influence with senior decision makers.  
• Evidence of bringing a broad perspective to issues, ensuring that overall objectives are achieved effectively and greatest value is added.  
• Strong focus on continuous learning for oneself, others and the organisation. Being open to developing one’s own knowledge and skill set, as well as investing in the capabilities of others by giving clear, honest feedback and supporting teams to succeed.  

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing
• Leadership
• Working Together

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Assessed as part of interview process

As well as the interesting and varied work you’ll do to contribute to effective competition in the UK, and to ensure consumers get a good deal when buying goods and services, you’ll also benefit from:

• An exceptionally generous pension scheme with a significant employer contribution and range of options, including a tax-free lump sum at the point of retirement and injury, ill-health and life assurance benefits
• 25 days leave (increasing to 30 days over five years), plus 8 public holidays and an additional day off for the King’s birthday. In addition, you’ll be able to access a wide range of other types of leave as and when you need it, including generous maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption options, as well as paid special leave for volunteering
• Season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, flu vaccinations and eye tests
• Access to the Civil Service Sports & Leisure, giving discounted gym membership, high street discounts, free access to UK wide attractions and a free Tastecard
• A range of wellbeing benefits, including an employee assistance programme, flexible working options and family friendly policies, regular networking events and professional learning opportunities at work.

Any move to the CMA from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk/.

Like many other organisations, we operate a hybrid working model with a mix of office and home working. We believe this supports us to deliver our best work while allowing the flexibility to maintain balanced and healthy lives. We work at least 40% of our time from our office locations across the UK.

If you’re already a civil servant being appointed on level transfer, you’ll retain your existing terms, including annual leave. If you are being promoted you’ll receive either a 10% pay increase or the new grade minimum, whichever is the greater. Applicants new to the civil service can be considered for appointment at a salary higher than the starting point indicated above, but not more than the advertised mid-point, depending on skills, knowledge, experience and qualifications.

We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We want a diverse workforce that reflects the consumers we serve. We welcome applications from under-represented groups, including ethnically diverse people, people with a disability, people with diverse gender identities and from people of different ages. 

We are an accredited Disability Confident Employer and disabled applicants meeting the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.

Our Values

The CMA delivers impactful outcomes for people, business and the UK economy.​ We are Ambitious and Evidence-based, and always strive for Excellence.​ We treat everyone with Respect, and are Collaborative and Inclusive.​

Everything we do is underpinned by the Civil Service values: Honesty, Integrity, Impartiality and Objectivity.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above.
This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions.
Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and
conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your
personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any
absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you
to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Job contact :

• Name : CMA Recruitment
• Email : recruitment@cma.gov.uk
• Telephone : 02037386808

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitment@cma.gov.uk