Financial Investigator – Asset Denial
National Crime Agency
Salary: £34,672 - £38,314 + £3,595 for roles based in London or £2,876 for roles based in Stevenage
Location: Belfast, Birmingham, London, Normanton, Nottingham, Stevenage and Warrington
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 23:55 26th November 2023
Hours: Full-time 40 hours per week, part-time, flexible working, and job share

About us

Do you want to join a world class Investigation capability and help protect the public against serious and organised crime?

Investigations is the core crime fighting capability of the NCA. We take an intelligence-led approach and concentrate on tackling the criminals and risks to the public which are beyond the capability or capacity of other law enforcement bodies.

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.

Your role

Conducting financial investigations in support of the NCA‘s objective of eroding the profit motive with serious and organised crime, you will undermine a key incentive for the highest risk and most serious and organised criminals.

Through building effective external partnerships and collaborating with other NCA units, wider UK law enforcement, international counterparts and Government departments, you will contribute to the acquisition and development of tactical and strategic intelligence focused on serious and organised crime affecting the UK, particularly money laundering and economic crime investigations.

Asset Denial comprises the following teams which utilise an array of powers under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) and the Criminal Finances Act 2017 (CFA) to target the highest risk and most serious and organised criminals:

Asset Confiscation Enforcement (ACE) - Ensures that criminal confiscation orders are enforced and paid and also revisits orders if further additional assets come to light.

Civil Recovery and Tax (CRT) – Uses POCA civil recovery and tax powers to deprive criminals of property obtained through criminality.

Criminal Asset Denial team (CADT) - service the restraint and confiscation requirements of the Complex Financial Crime Teams within the NCA. They also extensively use CFA asset denial powers.

To learn more about this role, please register for the following event:

On Monday 20th November from 18:00, we are hosting a MS Teams event where you can hear from officers working within the NCA and be given the opportunity to ask questions about the role.

Attendance is by invitation only. To register, please contact central.recruitment@nca.gov.uk ASAP with the subject NCA – CRT FI Event 20/11/23

Your background

We are looking to recruit individuals from a variety of backgrounds into Asset Denial and encourage applications from candidates who are or can evidence the aptitude and ability to attain financial investigator accreditation.

You will hold either accredited Financial Investigator status or lapsed accreditation as a Financial Investigator within the last 3 years and be prepared to do the necessary work to reinstate that accreditation.

With recent experience or knowledge of conducting criminal, civil or regulatory investigations on complex economic or financial cases you will have 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.

Able to work to tight deadlines within a dynamic environment, you will demonstrate experience in effective operational decision making with accountability for decisions made.

Benefits

We take your career and development seriously and want to help you build a truly successful career with us and the wider Civil Service. So we’ll make sure you receive the right training, guidance and coaching, as well as regular performance and development reviews.

What’s more, as a Civil Service employee you’re entitled to a large range of benefits, including generous annual leave, flexible working, a contributory pension, volunteering days, childcare vouchers and other salary sacrifice options, and an employee discount scheme.

Apply on website: Financial Investigator - Asset Denial, Investigations Directorate - Civil Service Jobs - GOV.UK