A unique opportunity to apply your business and financial adviser expertise for the benefit of consumers. Join us and play a key role in tackling consumer and competition problems, helping make markets work well for consumers, businesses and the UK economy.

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.

What you will do

As a Business and Financial Adviser, you will provide essential commercial analysis and insight across the breadth of the CMA's case work. You will look at a wide range of markets to understand businesses and their strategies, gathering, identifying and articulating information to test whether market structure, business conduct and subsidy provision are or could be harming competition and generating bad consumer outcomes. You will also apply appropriate analytical tools, providing key insights for CMA decision-makers to utilise in developing remedies. In this capacity, our Advisers are central, and you will play a lead role in determining and defining effective solutions to the problems we find.

What you will need

Your qualifications should include a degree and/or postgraduate qualification in business/finance/accounting (e.g., ACA, CIMA, CFA, or MBA), or equivalent professional experience. Ideally, you should also showcase familiarity with economics and financial theory.

Required skills include relevant analytical and interpretive experience, the ability to derive key insights from complex information, and a track record of using evidence, knowledge, and sound judgment to offer expert advice. You should also possess the ability to build effective professional relationships that foster collaborative working.

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.

All colleagues are included, respected and valued using their unique strengths to contribute to our success. We have active staff networks supporting colleagues and amplifying their views including Carers, Race, Disability, Women’s, Social Mobility, LGBTQ+, Dyslexia, Interfaith and All Ages.

You will gain access to a comprehensive formal learning programme, including professional learning, technical learning, leadership skills, management skills, business skills and conferences. You will also access a wide range of opportunities that will support you with your well-being, resilience and building relationships with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders.

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

The closing date for applications is 11:55 pm on Tuesday 16th January 2024.

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.

The CMA is an accredited Disability Confident Employer, and we are an equal opportunities employer, welcoming suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.