# Principal Investigative Lawyer

**Company**: Serious Fraud Office
**Location**: City of Westminster
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Flexible
**Salary**: GBP 59,971 - 69,666 per year
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigates and prosecutes the most serious and complex fraud, bribery, and corruption, and pursues the proceeds of crime, compensating victims where possible.

As a Principal Investigative Lawyer, you will have the opportunity to make a significant contribution by providing strong leadership to drive cases forward, delivering high-quality outcomes by collaborating with a variety of internal and external stakeholders worldwide.

This is an interesting and engaging role, providing legal expertise to bring cases to a successful outcome. As a Principal Investigative Lawyer, you will be part of a team comprising investigators, accountants, digital specialists, and financial investigators and will progress cases by leading and managing teams and providing quality legal advice.

**Responsibilities:**

- Providing advice in relation to prosecutions and Deferred Prosecutions Agreements

- Drafting search warrants, attending searches, interviewing witnesses, identifying asset recovery options, and engaging counsel for trial and disclosure work

- Engagement with overseas law enforcement and prosecuting agencies, with possible travel

- Enhancing technical skills through working with digital evidence (training to use SFO software will be provided)

- Drafting case strategy, key decisions, team building, and outcomes

- Working on a variety of cases to expand career experience

**Person Specification:**

- Barrister authorised by the Bar Council to practice in England and Wales OR a solicitor, admitted by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority and authorised to practice in England and Wales with a minimum of 2 years PQE

**Behaviours:**

- Leadership

- Communicating and Influencing

- Delivering at Pace

**Benefits:**

- Salary of £59,971 - £69,666 per year

- Contribution of £17,373 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 Civil Service Sports and Social Club

- Maternity and paternity leave provision over and above statutory entitlements

## Skills

### Required
- legal expertise
- leadership
- communication
- influencing
- digital evidence analysis

### Nice to have
- experience of managing large quantities of data
- written and/or oral advocacy
- advising on and/or delivering disclosure

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