At the FCA, we help to protect financial consumers and make markets work well by regulating nearly 45,000 firms. Our ambition is to become a more innovative, more assertive and more adaptive regulator; one that fully capitalises on data and technology, ensures consumer protection and market integrity, and responds well to the challenges we face. We’re looking for interns to join our diverse and highly capable teams across the FCA.
The role
Length: 10 weeks
Dates: Monday 16th June 2025 – Friday 22nd August 2025
Financial services regulation is constantly changing, impacting the way in which we regulate. To support this, we deliver a large and varied portfolio of change programmes, implementing new regulatory directives and the required information technology services. If you join the Technology Summer Internship you’ll support colleagues to help manage the impact of such change on the organisation, its processes, and people. You’ll be aligned to one of our five departments: Core Technology, Digital Systems, Tech Resilience, Tech Enablement and Strategy and Architecture. You could be involved with the following:
Strategy and Architecture
- Supporting the planning and prioritisation of the strategic change portfolio
- Coordinating design governance forums
- Developing investment cases for future projects
Core Technology
- Supporting our Cloud and DevOps team
- End User Computing
- Enterprise Resource Planning
- Infrastructure Product Group
Digital Systems
- Quality Engineering
- Market Intelligence and Enforcement
- Data and Analytics
Tech Enablement
- Resource planning and communication
- Risk Management
- Finance
- Capability Acceleration
Tech Resilience
- Supplier management
- Service operations
- Cyber Security
At the end of the internship you’ll have gained experience in your allocated area of Technology and experienced working with diverse groups of stakeholders to solve real-world business problems. And, if you’re successful, you could be offered a place on our Graduate Programme in 2025.
What we offer
We’re committed to making the FCA a great place to work. We do this by:
- providing a rewarding environment, recognising that our people are motivated by meaningful work
- maintaining a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion, allowing people to develop and progress without barriers
- looking after the well-being of our people, ensuring that they are safe and well and appropriately cared for
- promoting an environment in which people are valued and respected
At the FCA you’ll have the opportunity to make a difference. We offer all our summer interns:
- A competitive salary of £24,000 (pro rata)
- A bespoke induction in the first week of the summer internship programme to introduce you to what we do at the FCA and our place in the Financial Services landscape
- Access to a skills training path to support you through your internship and beyond
- Completion of a financial services related project that benefits the local community, which you will present to a senior panel of judges towards the end of your internship
- Opportunity to hear from senior speakers across the business
- Lunch and learn sessions to widen your knowledge of the FCA divisions and their work
- Social opportunities to network and engage with your intern cohort
Please note
- We only accept ONE application per person for our 2025 programmes, therefore, please apply to your first-choice programme. Any additional applications will not be progressed.
- Your application and any work you submit throughout the recruitment process must be all your own. You will not allow another person to complete any parts of the assessment nor submit responses provided or generated by an AI assistant or other similar software.
- Applicants for the 2025 Data Science Summer Internship must be on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 degree from any university and be in their penultimate year of study with a graduation year of 2026.
- For the 2025 Data Science Summer Internship, submit your online application by Sunday 10th November 2024. However, we recruit on a rolling basis and therefore encourage early applications.
