Regulatory Reporting and Analysis Officer

Basis: Permanent, Full time 36 hours per week

A £312 tax-free working from home allowance is also payable annually.

Location: Cardiff, Belfast or Edinburgh (Hybrid – min. 2 days in office) or Remote (UK)

Benefits: Outstanding benefits including Civil Service Pension Scheme, flexible working, 28+ days holiday, and more.

About the Electoral Commission

The Electoral Commission is the UK’s independent body overseeing elections and regulating political finance. Everything we do is about ensuring trust, participation, and integrity in the democratic process.

As we enter a bold new chapter under our five-year Corporate Plan, we are increasing our workforce and transforming how we plan and deliver core services. This post plays a central role in that journey.

About the role

As a Regulatory Reporting and Analysis Officer, you will help ensure trust in UK democracy by analysing political finance data and ensuring legal compliance across political parties, campaigners and other regulated groups.

You will be responsible for reviewing, validating and analysing high volume financial submissions, such as donations, loans, spending returns and annual accounts and helping to tell the story behind the data.

Day to day, you will:

• Check submissions are on-time, complete and accurate, following up on late receipt or missing details
• Review data for compliance with legislation, highlighting any issues and suggesting remediation plans
• Analyse trends, patterns and outliers to inform internal and external reports on political funding and spending
• Support responses to public, media and stakeholder queries

This role offers exposure to high-profile, externally visible work at the heart of UK democratic processes, and the opportunity to develop skills in regulatory compliance, data analytics and political finance.

About the team

You’ll join the Regulatory Reporting and Analysis Team, a collaborative, data-driven group responsible for ensuring openness and accountability in political finance.

The team works with large datasets, varied stakeholder groups and fast-moving regulatory deadlines. The culture is inquisitive, supportive and focused on continuous improvement, including reducing manual data handling and improving digital tools.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

How to apply

We are committed to fair and inclusive recruitment. To help reduce unconscious bias and ensure all applicants are assessed solely on their skills, knowledge and experience, we use an anonymous recruitment process.

When applying, please provide an anonymised CV which omits your protected characteristics and any personally identifiable information:

Do not include:

• Your name, address, phone number, email or other contact details
• Your date of birth or age
• Gender, ethnicity, nationality or other personal identifiers
• A photo of yourself
• Remove educational dates as these are a clear indication of your age
• There is no requirement to include your primary education details.

Do include:

• Your employment history including employers and dates of employment
• Explanation for gaps in your history
• Your duties, responsibilities and achievements

If your CV contains personal details (such as your name or contact information), we will be unable to consider your application. Please double-check your documents before submitting, including the file name you use to save and upload your CV.

Supporting disabled applicants

The Electoral Commission is proud to be a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. As part of this commitment, we aim to prioritise interviews for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria listed in the job description.

There may, however, be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. For example, during periods of exceptionally high application volumes or seasonal recruitment activity, the Commission may need to limit the overall number of interviews offered to both disabled and non-disabled applicants.

If you have a disability and would like to be considered under this commitment, please indicate this when you apply. We also welcome requests for reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process or within the workplace.

Key dates

• Application deadline: Monday 16th November 2026 (23:59)
• Interviews (1st stage): Assessment Centre 3rd December
• Anticipated start date: January 2027

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.