Description
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is a law enforcement organisation that investigates and prosecutes top-tier fraud, bribery, corruption, and related money laundering. You will work in the Proceeds of Crime and International Assistance Division (POCIAD), playing a key role in delivering the SFO's strategic objective to deliver justice for victims and recover the proceeds of financial crime.
As a Financial Investigator, you will manage a varied caseload of proceeds of crime investigations. You will use investigative and financial analysis skills to identify lines of enquiry, criminal benefit, realisable assets, and recoverable property, and pursue appropriate asset recovery outcomes.
Your work may include:
- Restraint and confiscation investigations
- Civil recovery
- Cash seizure and forfeiture
- Account freezing and forfeiture
- Listed asset investigations
- Money laundering investigations
- Enforcement of confiscation orders
You will work closely with POCIAD lawyers, SFO case teams, and UK and overseas law enforcement partners.
Successful candidates will undertake a structured six-month secondment with one of the SFO's criminal investigation teams before commencing Financial Investigator training. This provides experience of the SFO's wider investigative work and forms part of the development pathway towards Financial Investigator accreditation.
As part of ongoing professional development, successful candidates will undertake relevant asset recovery training and achieve and maintain required external accreditation.
Responsibilities:
- Planning and conducting restraint and confiscation investigations
- Conducting investigations into suspected money laundering offences
- Conducting financial intelligence enquiries
- Undertaking investigations into cash seizure and forfeiture, account freezing and forfeiture, listed assets, and civil recovery
- Taking appropriate investigative action to support the effective enforcement of confiscation orders
- Producing robust witness statements
- Identifying and using appropriate investigative powers
- Liaising with criminal case teams and law enforcement agencies
Benefits:
- Salary of £38,151 - £43,124 per year
- Contribution of £11,052 towards Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme
- Generous annual leave provision of 25 days, increasing to 30 days after five years' service
- Discretionary performance-related bonus scheme
- Interest-free season travel ticket, bicycle loan, and cycle to work scheme
- Access to Rental Deposit Salary Advance Scheme
- Opportunities for learning and development
- Flexible working arrangements and family-friendly policies
- Voucher for eye care and discounted spectacles
- Access to a range of discounts through membership of the Civil Service Sports and Social Club