As an intern my work was spread around a few different teams in the department Effectively I was picking up jobs around the department which meant I got a breadth work and met nearly everyone I did a lot of work on PowerPoint Excel and Word Excel
My work and responsibilities have varied over the course of the internship depending on the specific tasks that I was working on at a given point in time However for the most part Ive worked on thematic review projects while these have all differed
Worked on many different projects over the course of the internship these included analysing worker productivity over time internal forecasting and business model analysis Daytoday this involved a lot of data work some cleaning mostly analysis an
Work varied a lot depending on what I was working on generally consisted of lots of data work in exceltableau Frequent meetings with other members of staff and delivering presentations were also somewhat common
You get to pick a preference of what division youd like to go in but the team you go in is completely random I was placed in an operations based role where I had to Created Excel Pivotables and PowerPoint organograms to help employees visualise thei
Attending meetings taking notes and writing up the notes for record Engaging with other interns in a group project Conducting data analysis on the portfolio and reporting my findings back to my superiors
I was a Technology and Change Intern This consisted of working with back office technological systems This included both internal infrastructure systems and business facing regulatory systems
I was not allocated to one specific project for the duration of the internship and instead had a number of pieces to work on This would vary from spreadsheet and document saving work to writing project proposals attending jobspecific trainings and rev
I worked in the Competition Economics Department on a market study I took part in weekly team meetings and helped with odd tasks including writing briefings for senior figures in the FCA I was assigned my own area of responsibility too researching and
Daytoday I would attend team department meetings I undertook training on Tableau and Tableau Prep as well as SQL Following this I created dashboards for other areas of the organisation and would present this to their teams
Working in a small team of about five to six people within the supervision department Tasks including taking notes at external meetings drafting communications and researching cases I had responsibility for smaller tasks within larger projects such as
Regular meetings within my team and the wider team Assigned tasks of differing urgencies Range in the type of tasks I was asked to carry out in addition to independent learning Completed a community project
Worked as a part of the market oversight team specifically in the market integrity unit subdivision primary market oversight Completed a series of thematic reviews analysing trends in the market
My role in the EU Strategy and Engagement team involved monitoring EU authorities attending online speaker events and European Parliament hearings doing research for briefings for senior leadership speeches assessing EU jurisdictions for their regulati
As an associate in the Authorisations department I was involved in the registration of firms Specifically I helped with the processing of applications from crypto firms under 5MLD In an effort to make the FCA more efficient certain tasks that used
My role involved looking at firm portfolios and business models Completing my own supervision cases Writing note for records for various FCA internal and external meetings
The insight was split into 2 days The first day involved learning about the various divisions within the Financial Conduct Authority through presentations given by employees For example talks from FCA employees within the Wholesale Enforcement and Mark
The spring insight involved 3 days which consisted of 1 day to learn more about the FCA an assessment centre and some employability sessions at the end
Talks from senior colleagues and graduates Assessment workshops Assessment centre
Learning about the FCA and its role in the Financial Services with welcomes from senior members of the team We then learned about different stages of the Assessment Centre and how to do well in it before the Assessment Centre was held on the second day