Closing date: 22/07/2026
Location: Manchester
Position Type: Full Time; Part Time
Salary: £64,700 – £77,480
The Independent Football Regulator (IFR) has been established to protect and promote the sustainability of English football, for the benefit of fans and the local communities football clubs serve.
The IFR will help improve financial sustainability of clubs, ensure resilience across the leagues, and safeguard the heritage of English football. It will operate a licensing regime, set corporate governance standards and monitor, protect, and promote financial resilience. It will also enforce compliance with requirements on financial regulation, club ownership and directors, fan engagement, and heritage protection.
The IFR will also have powers to prohibit clubs from joining competitions that are not fair or meritocratic, or that threaten the heritage or sustainability of English football.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Prudential Data Analysis Manager to join Technical Advisory and Specialist Supervision. The team provide specialist support to supervisors in the form of technical analysis for ODSE applications, licensing assessments and diagnosis of financial risks within football clubs. The team is also responsible for building out the data and analytics function of supervision and the risk assessment framework used to identify and scale financial risk.
Working within a multidisciplinary technical team, you will lead the analysis of prudential returns and other regulatory data to identify trends, anomalies and outliers. You will develop analytical products, risk models and dashboards that enable supervisors to better understand firm’s financial health and prioritise supervisory interventions.
The role combines strong technical and analytical experience with sound supervisory judgement gained from previous work in a prudential regulator of regulated financial institution. You will work closely with policy, supervision and data specialists to translate complex prudential information into clear, actionable insight that supports evidenced based decision making.
As a Manager, you will work with Junior Analysts to support their development and their contribution in the development of analytical methodologies, improve data quality and drive continuous improvement of prudential reporting and risk assessment.
Essential Requirements:
Strong experience in a prudential setting, with a great understanding of regulatory frameworks.
Experience producing data analysis to understand and inform policy, supervisory priorities and supervisory risk models.
Strong programming skills in Python and or R, with experience using SQL to extract, manipulate and analyse data.
Experience supporting stress testing, scenario analysis or macroprudential risk assessments.
Ability to translate complex analytical findings into clear, evidenced based recommendations for senior stakeholders.
Strong understanding of statistical techniques and forecasting methods.
Knowledge of R, Power BI, Tableau or Python visualisation tools.
Excellent analytical and problem-solving techniques.
Experience in line management and developing junior data analysts.
Desirable Skills:
Experience analysing supervisory, regulatory or prudential reporting datasets.
Experience working within a financial regulator, central bank or regulated financial institutional.
Experience in rapid response / surge type support in a supervisory context.
Terms and Conditions of Employment
If successful, you will join a Non-Departmental Public Body and will be employed as a Public Servant.
If you are an existing Civil Servant or a DCMS employee, you will no longer have access to Civil Service benefits including the Civil Service pension.
The terms and conditions of employment include:
Pension 12% – An employee contribution of 5%, with an employer contribution of 7%.
Flexible Benefit 8% – Employees can choose to invest 8% of their base salary into their pension or take as cash (post tax).
Reward – We will have a performance-based reward programme.
31.5 days annual leave.
Flexible and hybrid working – 40% in office attendance.
Occupational sick pay.
9 months paid Maternity Leave and generous paternity and adoption leave.
A bespoke L&D programme to help you achieve your personal CPD, including paid membership fees.
Cycle-to-work scheme and much more!
Interested Click apply and you will be redirected to our careers site to complete your application
Salary description
£64700.00 - £77480.00 per year