This recruitment is for the Outbound Cash Team based at Chelmsford and Stevenage Investigations. If the recruitment reaches capacity, you may be posted to an alternative team.
The role is to conduct and lead financial investigations in support of the National Crime Agency’s objectives.  

Job description

Main Responsibilities:

• To conduct and support money laundering and economic crime investigations in accordance with NCA policy and legislative requirements and maximise the effective use of the Proceeds of Crime Act and other legislation.
• To contribute to the acquisition and development of tactical and strategic intelligence (through targeted research, open source searches, behavioural, analytical, comparative studies and/or prevention initiatives focused on serious and organised crime affecting the UK, particularly money laundering and economic crime investigations.
• To sift and analyse large volumes of data, follow complex financial trails, and seek and act upon opportunities to obtain evidential material.
• Take on finance roles within a larger case team, ensuring all legal and operational requirements are met on the way to preparing cases for submission to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) or the NCA’s Legal Department, as appropriate.
• Build effective external partnerships, collaborate with other NCA units, wider UK law enforcement, international counterparts and Government departments.

Person specification

As a Financial Investigator at Stevenage you will work alongside a proactive investigation team; focusing on upstream criminality, reaching across international borders, utilising disruption tactics and targeting financial assets to maximize the NCA’s impact by seizing their possessions and securing convictions.  

As a Financial Investigator on the outbound cash team at Chelmsford you will target organised crime groups (OCG’s) moving illicit finance across borders, investigating and  identifying the OCG responsible, seizing their financial assets and securing convictions to disrupt their activities and protect communities from border threats.  

***All NCA officers must hold SC Enhanced upon entry as a minimum. To meet the National Security Vetting requirements for this role you will need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of 3 out of the past 5 years. For more information please see the Candidate information Pack***

*** Candidates are required to have SC upon entry. And will be required to gain DV whilst in post ***

Qualifications

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

· Accredited financial investigator, or lapsed accreditation within the last 3 years. Or evidence the aptitude and ability to attain financial investigator 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.
Failure to provide evidence at interview may result in your application not progressing to the next stage.

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 of conducting criminal, civil or regulatory investigations on complex economic or financial cases.
• Demonstrate 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, civil recovery, and/or cash seizures.
• Experience in effective operational decision making with accountability for decisions made.
• Proven experience of working to tight deadlines within a dynamic environment.

VETTING REQUIREMENTS SC

All security clearances require you to provide evidence of your UK footprint where you have been physically present in the UK.

The requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.

Failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected.

If you require SC clearance you will need to provide evidence of the below requirements.

Checks will be made against:

• Departmental or company records (personnel files, staff reports, sick leave reports and security records)

• UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records.

• Your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency

• Security Services records

VETTING REQUIREMENTS - DV 

All security clearances require you to provide evidence of your UK footprint where you have been physically present in the UK.

The requirement for DV is to have been present in the UK for at least 5 of the last 10 years.

Failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected.

If you require DV clearance you will need to provide evidence of the below requirements.

Checks will be made against:

• successful completion of the BPSS

• UK criminal record and identity checks

• credit reference checks

• relevant personnel and medical checks (if required)