Location: Cardiff The role involves supporting and mentoring both new and experienced Financial Investigation Officers through their accreditation process.
Responsibilities include enhancing investigative skills to effectively use legislation against proceeds from organised immigration crime.
Candidates should have experience in financial investigations under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, including money laundering, restraint, confiscation, and asset freezing.
Additionally, the role requires experience in drafting summaries for criminal and civil proceedings and attending court to provide evidence.
Key accountabilities: Support and mentor newly recruited trainee FIs, and more established FIs, through the accreditation process.
Assist in building investigative capabilities and capacities to enable FIs to effectively utilise legislation to tackle the proceeds of organised immigration crime, and identify and recover the criminal finances, money movement and assets that are associated with the OIC threat.
Assist in building investigative capacity so every Criminal Investigation team has access to a local fully trained financial investigation resource.
Assist in building investigative capabilities and capacities to enable us to exploit financial data and intelligence to support the evidence base needed to secure the prosecutions of Organised Crime Groups.
Key requirement: Experience of conducting financial investigations under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 including, money laundering, restraint, confiscation, and part 5 cash, listed assets, and account freezing order investigations (Civil Recovery In Summary Proceedings (CRiSP) and taking these financial investigations through the associated Court hearings.
Experience of drafting summaries / statements in criminal and civil proceedings and attending Court to give evidence.
Experience of analysing complex financial data, including presentation in an evidential format for Court, and the completion and service of Financial Orders.
Experience of applying the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 in criminal investigations.
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If you consider yourself to have a disability or if you are a veteran, and you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will be put forward for the 'Guaranteed Interview' scheme whereby you will have the opportunity to discuss this role and your suitability with a member of the Sourcing team.
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