CMA1998 Assistant Director, Remedies, Business and Financial Analysis (RBFA)

An exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role within our Remedies, Business and Financial Analysis (RBFA) professional group, providing high-quality commercial and financial analysis to support key decisions on the Competition and Market’s Authority’s (CMA) cases.

About the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)

The CMA is the UK’s world-leading body established to make sure competition works well and businesses treat their customers fairly.

The Remedies, Business and Financial Analysis professional group is the CMA’s centre of excellence for all aspects of remedies work and for providing commercial and financial expertise across the CMA’s varied casework, including market and mergers cases, competition and consumer enforcement and regulatory appeals.

You will investigate, analyse and advise upon financial and/or business issues across a range of CMA cases, informing our understanding of how businesses and markets are operating. This will involve gathering essential information and offering key insights into a range of commercial issues relating to the firms we investigate.

In the event that it is necessary for us to intervene, you will play a central role in finding and implementing effective, real-world solutions to the problems we find, developing remedies that make markets work better and improve consumer outcomes.

In addition to this, you will assume management responsibilities which will involve overseeing and supporting team members, providing essential feedback and guidance that will facilitate their personal and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Commercial and financial analysis: Identifying the key commercial and financial issues for assessment. You will gather relevant information, analyse and advise upon the implications of a broad range of commercial issues as they relate to the firms we investigate. This may include: assessing firms’ financial performance; analysing firms’ corporate finance decisions and options; assessing appropriate rates of return for regulated utilities; or looking at firms’ strategic business choices such as entering or exiting a market.
• Developing remedies: Where we find competition or consumer problems, you will lead the identification and development of effective and proportionate remedies that will make markets work better, improving consumer outcomes. You will also often be responsible for implementing these interventions in practice, for example negotiating undertakings with firms or working with legal colleagues to draft orders.
• Communicating: Through presentations and written reports, communicating the work that you have undertaken, your findings and the implications for the wider case. Audiences will include senior decision makers, other colleagues and a wide range of external stakeholders.
• Team working: You will be a committed member of the multi-disciplinary case team, working collaboratively and contributing to wider work and discussions in order to help inform conclusions beyond your own workstreams.

• Postgraduate business, finance or accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA, MSc or MBA) OR equivalent professional experience (Lead criteria).
• Significant relevant commercial and financial analytical and interpretive experience including understanding business models in different industries; generating insights from complex information and evidencing accounting knowledge and numeracy (Lead criteria).
• Strong oral and written communication skills which result in persuasive, objective, well-reasoned arguments. Communicating issues, often complex, to a variety of audiences, demonstrating experience of influencing based on sound analytical judgements
• The ability to build and sustain constructive working relationships with colleagues to achieve results through working collaboratively; sharing information and building supportive, responsive relationships, whilst having the confidence to challenge assumptions.
• Learning & development of yourself, others and the organisation, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement. 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.

To find out more about the CMA please click below:

CMA – Working for the CMA , Civil Service Careers (civil-service-careers.gov.uk)

Or our LinkedIn page:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/competition-and-markets-authority/

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

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Seeing the Big Picture
• Developing Self and Others

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

• Business and Financial Analysis

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. 

Job contact :

• Name : Serena Connor
• Email : recruitment@cma.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitment@cma.gov.uk