Accredited Financial Investigator

You must already have a valid right to work in the UK documentation, as we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role.

 As an Accredited Financial Investigator, you'll conduct money laundering and financial investigations and enquiries associated with the functions of the City Council, including undertaking cash seizures, asset restraint and asset confiscation functions. The role will also involve tracing the origin, movement, and use of funds in criminal investigations adding significant value to other investigations.

 You'll help enforcement teams across the Community Safety, Compliance & Enforcement Service to detect, investigate and disrupt financial crime, fraud and unlawful financial gain. Through asset recovery, confiscation proceedings and intelligence-led investigations, ensuring compliance and enforcement action is taken appropriately and proportionately leading to positive recovery outcomes for victims. Your work will contribute to ensuring offenders do not profit from unlawful activity while supporting the Council's wider regulatory, enforcement and community safety objectives

 In this role you will:

• Conduct financial investigations and assess referrals relating to suspected fraud, irregularity and criminal financial activity. Interview suspects, witnesses and third parties in line with legal requirements, evaluate evidence and intelligence, and contribute to risk assessments and information sharing with authorised partners and enforcement agencies.
•  Lead complex money laundering investigations, asset recovery and confiscation proceedings. Identify offenders, associates and victims, obtain restraint and freezing orders, seize criminal assets, make court applications for warrants and surveillance, and support wider enforcement investigations.
•  Line manage an Intelligence Officer, ensuring intelligence processes meet legal, policy and evidential standards. Provide specialist investigative support across multi-disciplinary teams, including supporting prosecutions, presenting evidence in court, and delivering intelligence briefings to senior managers to inform strategic decision-making.
• Work with [enforcement officers across Community Safety Compliance & Enforcement, intelligence staff, legal services, partner agencies and law enforcement organisations
• Support financial investigations, intelligence development, asset recovery, confiscation proceedings and wider enforcement activity 

For queries about the role, please contact the hiring manager, Nathanael Annan, at [email protected] to arrange a convenient time to discuss the role. This route is for vacancy related enquiries only and should not be used to submit applications

 Pre-employment Check

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Accredited Financial Investigator with a strong understanding of financial crime, asset recovery and intelligence-led investigations. You will be confident in managing complex investigations, analysing financial evidence, preparing cases for court and working collaboratively with internal teams and external partners to disrupt criminality and recover criminal assets. The successful candidate will have excellent investigative, analytical and communication skills, be able to exercise sound judgement in complex situations, and be committed to achieving positive outcomes for communities through effective enforcement and intelligence-led activity.]

We’ll use the following essential criteria to decide which candidates to invite to assessment. Use your personal statement to provide evidence of how you meet each one, supported by relevant examples:

• Accredited Financial Investigator (AFI) status recognised by the National Crime Agency (NCA), with authority to exercise investigative powers under Part 8 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA), restraint and confiscation powers under Part 2 and cash seizure powers under Part 5 and ability to maintain accreditation through completion of mandatory Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements set by the National Crime Agency
• Evidence of substantial knowledge and application of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, including powers relating to cash seizure, detention and forfeiture, asset tracing, restraint and confiscation
•  Significant experience in financial Investigations and financially based analytical work, compiling cases for court, including money laundering & confiscation, POCA practice and procedure, Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE), Criminal Procedures Act (CPIA), Regulation of Investigative Powers Act (RIPA)

If you’re invited to assessment, we’ll look at a wider range of the role requirements. For more detail, please see the role profile.  

Use of AI 

You may use AI to support your application, but all examples must be your own and based on real experience. Applications may be withdrawn if content is misleading or presents someone else's experience as your own. Internal candidates may also face disciplinary action. 

Guaranteed Assessment Scheme 
We guarantee progression to the assessment stage for applicants who meet the essential criteria used for shortlisting and are eligible under the scheme. Learn more 

Support and Adjustments  
If you're successful in securing a role, we'll make every effort to provide the support, equipment and reasonable adjustments you need to carry out your duties. Where needed, we'll consider adapting aspects of the role. Learn more