Financial Regulations Officer
(12 month FTC)
Ref: FRO/O7/08

We currently have a fantastic opportunity for someone who has excellent knowledge and experience of working in a regulatory environment and knowledge of football regulations, especially those relating to Agents.
Responsibilities include:-

• Administer all aspects of The FA process payments in relation to international transfers and payments to agents.

• Monitor disclosures required by the FA Rules and Regulations in relation to agents and transfers.

• Evaluate, recommend and implement improvements to the payments / registrations process.

• Provide information to the Financial Regulation team to enable appropriate action to be taken where issues arise.

• Ensure Agents adhere to the requirements of FA and FIFA regulations.

The successful candidate will possess the following:-

• Excellent organisational skills with experience of managing own workload.

• Experience in handling sensitive information with discretion.

• Strong communication skills, with the patience, tact and confidence to liaise with people at all levels within football.

• Self-motivated with the ability to work systematically both unsupervised and within the team environment.

• Strong numeracy and analytical skills with an ability to handle a high volume of information whilst maintaining attention to detail.

• Honest, reliable and consistent.

• Advanced Excel skills, data analysis and data report writing.

• Excellent general IT skills to enable the post holder to act as the main liaison contact with the IT department.

• Keen interest and good working knowledge of football clubs, league structure, players etc.

To apply, for this role please send your CV and a covering letter, explaining why you are suitable for this role and details of your current salary, either by email or post to the address below. Please quote the reference number Ref: FRO/O7/08

Email:    financialregulationjobs@thefa.com

Postal address:   Human Resources Department, The Football Association, 25 Soho Square, London, W1D 4FA

The closing date for applications to be received is by 5pm on Friday 11 July 2008.

The Football Association actively promotes Equal Opportunities in employment, and welcomes applications from all parts of the community. We would appreciate it if you could complete and return an Equity Monitoring form with your application.

The form can be downloaded here. All information will be treated anonymously and in confidence. The form will be separated from your application form, stored separately and used only to provide statistics for monitoring purposes.