Financial Intelligence Officer

Financial Intelligence Officer /To Train as a Financial Intelligence Officer, Proceeds of Crime Team (Permanent)

**Salary**: London ranging from £31,900 - £38,000
- The Proceeds of Crime Team, made up of Financial Intelligence Officers, Accredited Financial Investigators and professional business support provides a dedicated specialist team with the expertise to help the FCA meet its proceeds of crime investigative responsibilities. This forms part of our credible deterrence agenda, around prosecution of criminal offences linked to our statutory objectives and remit within the Financial Services & Markets Act 2000 and Financial Services Act 2012.
- We provide dedicated financial investigation resource to:- Investigate, identify, restrain and confiscate the proceeds of criminal behaviours, seeking to remove these from convicted individuals-
- Compensate victims wherever possible-
- Use enforcement powers available to us to ensure confiscation orders are satisfied-
- Use civil powers under Part 5 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and associated legislation to identify and forfeit recoverable property-
- Undertake criminal investigations into money laundering offences under Part 7 POCAWhat you will be doing (the role)

Our Proceeds of Crime Team are now recruiting for an Associate on a permanent basis to join the team.

You will be working as part of a team supporting the effective delivery of the different investigations under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, as well as wider projects. You will work flexibly across different cases and projects, providing the team with crucial intelligence, analytical and administrative assistance.

You must be willing to be trained as a Financial Intelligence Officer, committing to the independent study and timely completion of all relevant training courses necessary to successfully qualify. This post requires the holder to have already successfully completed, or to achieve successful completion of, national security vetting to Security Check (“SC”) level.

What you will get from the role- To commit to successfully undertake the training to become a Financial Intelligence Officer, to submit appropriate Personal Development Plans and evidence of Continuing Professional Development as deemed necessary by the Proceeds of Crime Centre, to ensure accreditation is maintained-
- Undertaking intelligence gathering and case building activities, such as submitting requests for information under the Data Protection Act 2018, the Anti-Terrorism, Crime & Security Act 2001, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 and open-source enquiries, including use of software packages such as Altia to convert financial information to Excel, under the supervision of an Accredited Financial Investigator-
- Conducting financial research and analysis, as well as general administrative tasks relating to investigations and the work of the team-
- Using document management systems for the review of evidence, document analysis and initial classification of documents for relevance and disclosure purposes-
- Drafting straightforward documents (including external requests for information, correspondence, memoranda, reports and minutes of internal and external meetings)-
- Supporting the team in search and seizure operations-
- Ensuring that all case files and records are accurately and efficiently maintained including document scheduling, archiving and retrieval and ensuring all documents are maintained in accordance with agreed protocols-
- Conducting timely and accurate complex document preparation including photocopying, collation, pagination, labelling, checking and listing-
- To ensure management information is accurate and up to date, including running reports on confiscation activity from the Joint Asset Recovery Database-
- Attending Court during trials and other hearings-
- Reviewing documents and proof reading, including cross-reference checking-
- Working closely and collaboratively with case teams, Business Support and ancillary services used by Enforcement-
- Attend and contribute to knowledge sharing events and identify opportunities for knowledge sharing- Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.
- Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:

- 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
- Private healthcare with Bupa
- A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age - up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)
- Life assurance of eight times your basic salary
- Income protection
- We support hybrid working which means you will be able to work from home up to 60% of the time over a month with the remainder of your time in one of our three o