Senior Financial Investigator, North, Investigation

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 275037**Salary**:

- £42,109 - £45,605- This role attracts a SPOT Rate salary. SPOT Rate offers a progressive increase in pay to reflect the skills and experience of the officer. The starting SPOT Rate is SPOT rate 1 £42, 109. Progression to a higher spot rate is only achievable once in post. Eligibility for spot rates is determined by the requirements of the role, not the skills or capabilities of the officer occupying the role.**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer- NCA Grade 4 / Police Sergeant**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Investigation
- Operational Delivery
- Policing**Working pattern**:

- Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 5Contents

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Location
- Birmingham, Liverpool, Normanton, Nottingham, Sunderland, WarringtonAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- The Investigations Directorate provides a flexible, shared operational capability, designed to maximise the impact of the UK's collective resources against serious and organised crime, and in specialist support of major crime. Our teams respond to a broad range of threats, many of which also remain a responsibility for police forces and other agencies as well as private industry.**Job description**:
These roles are for embedded senior financial investigators working alongside operational teams tackling some of the most dangerous serious and organised criminals in the United Kingdom (and abroad). You will be part of a dynamic team investigating a variety of crime types from the importation and distribution of class A drugs and firearms, to protecting victims and communities from the harms of modern day slavery and human trafficking.

You will supervise other financial investigators offering mentoring and support as required.

You will lead and support financial investigations delivering the NCA's objectives and eroding the profit motive associated with serious and organised crime, and undermine a key incentive for the highest risk and most serious and organised criminals.

If you have the requisite skills, and you are looking for a sense of purpose and have a desire to be part of a team making a difference, we would like to hear from you.
We are looking to recruit Senior Financial Investigators from a variety of backgrounds. The NCA utilise Financial Investigators for both Civil and Criminal casework. We are seeking a broad range of applicants to help us fill roles in this area of the business.

**Person specification**:
**Main responsibilities include**:

- To lead, develop and progress financial investigations in accordance with NCA policy and legislative requirements and maximise the effective use of POCA and other legislation.
- To sift and analyse large volumes of data, during and follow complex financial investigations, and seek and act upon opportunities to obtain evidential material.
- Take on lead financial investigation roles within larger case team, ensuring all legal and operational requirements are met on the way to preparing cases for submission for charge advice and/or judicial outcomes.
- Complete mandatory training and successfully obtain and maintain relevant Financial Intelligence Officer (FIO) and Financial Investigator (FI) accreditation.
- Supervise and/or mentor staff as required.
- Monitor operational performance and deliver timely performance and management information in accordance with corporate requirements.
- Build effective external partnerships, collaborate with other NCA units, wider UK law enforcement, international counterparts and Government departments.

**Qualifications**:

- The following qualifications/skills are essential to the role and proof will be required at interview:

- Accredited Financial Investigator status or lapsed accreditation as Financial Investigators (3 years or less) who are prepared to do the necessary work to reinstate that accreditation.
- Please ensure the dates of any accreditations you are relying on, are entered on to the CV.
- Should you progress to the assessment stage of the process, you will be required to provide a copy of the original certificate.-
**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Recent experience or understanding of conducting criminal, civil or regulatory investigations on complex economic or financial cases.
- An understanding of the criminal or civil law and UK legislation affecting agency activity - with emphasis on Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) in relation to money laundering offences and/or cash seizures.
- Experience in effective operational decision making with accountability for decisions made.
- Experience of leading a team against set objectives to deliver successful outcomes.

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