Given the UK’s position as a leading international financial centre, overseas political and regulatory developments have the potential to affect our members who use their UK operations to do business outside the UK. UK Finance therefore has an International Affairs function, which sits within the Corporate Affairs & Strategic Policy department. International Affairs is our dedicated central resource with overall responsibility to oversee and coordinate our work abroad – including in the EU and the US, and with global standard setting bodies. We provide strategic advice to UK Finance’s policy teams in respect of the development and execution of their overseas advocacy plans.

International Affairs is also responsible for UK Finance’s trade and market access work. Here, we seek to help members’ businesses in the UK do business abroad by working to mitigate or eliminate regulatory, administrative and other barriers to trade in financial services, and maintain the UK’s openness to cross-border financial services trade. To this end, we regularly engage with key government departments, particularly HM Treasury and the Department for Business and Trade, to feed into their trade and market access agendas.

We also provide members with information services, where we share our analysis on key overseas developments and the UK’s trade policy.

This Manger position will play an important role in helping International Affairs to deliver the above core objectives, through the below set of responsibilities. This will include supporting UK Finance’s engagement with policymakers and other relevant stakeholders across key jurisdictions and international organisations, and acquiring (or deploying existing) policy expertise in trade and market access (and other UK Finance policy areas).

Given the nature of the role, please note that there will be occasions where overseas travel is required.

full job description can be found here - https://www.ukfinance.org.uk/careers/manager-international-affairs-1