- Pay Rate:
Up to £294 per day pay range subject to IR35 status
- Hours per Week:
37
Anticipated 12 months
- Cardiff
QAD/1088/3005
Role: Financial Investigation Officer
Contract Length: anticipated 12 months
Location: Cardiff – office based 5 days per week – some travelling may be required
Hours: 12 months. Part-time hours considered
Pay rate: Up to £294.37 per day pay range subject to IR35 status
A Financial Investigation Officer is required with either current or recent POCC accreditation as a Financial Investigator and Confiscator.
Consideration may now be given to candidates wishing to work on a part-time basis.
Our client is looking to hire a Financial Investigation Officer, on a contract basis for approximately 12 months.
You will support and mentor newly recruited trainee financial investigators successfully through their accreditation process.
Current FI accreditation is not required however you should have significant experience of working on POCA investigations and therefore will have had FI accreditation previously.
Key responsibilities:
- To support and mentor newly recruited trainee financial investigators successfully through their accreditation process.
- To assist in building investigative capacity so every Criminal & Financial Investigation team has access to a local fully trained financial investigation resource.
- Assist in building investigative capabilities and capacities to enable financial investigators to fully utilise legislation to tackle the proceeds of organised immigration crime.
- Financial investigators will identify and recover the criminal finances, money movement and assets that are associated with the OIC threat.
- 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 OCGs.
Key Skills & Experience:
- Experience of conducting financial investigations under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 including, cash detention, confiscation, part 5 (civil recovery), listed assets and account freezing order investigations.
- Experience of taking these financial investigations through the associated Court hearings is also required.
- Experience of drafting summaries / statements in criminal and civil proceedings and attending Court to give evidence.
- Experience of analysing complex financial data and the presentation of such 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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- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
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