Intelligence Unit Specialist - Economic Crime in Coventry

Location: Coventry, Hybrid, Manchester

Salary Details: Up to £44,000 (dependant on relevant experience)

About the role

Our Economic Crime team are looking for an Intelligence Specialist to join them. This role will work within a newly established Economic Crime Intelligence Unit to lead on industry engagement, developing industry presence, facilitating a co-ordinated risk-based intelligence cycle for the collection, assessment and dissemination of intelligence. It will drive the focus of the business in pro-actively preventing, detecting and disrupting Economic Crime, which is a key department strategy.

The role holder will also be responsible for developing intelligence sources via key stakeholder engagement with both private and public sector/LEA engagement and producing intelligence summaries of fraud cases. It will develop intelligence packages, identify fraud/AML risks, conduct threat assessments and utilise Intelligence Systems for storage and managing intelligence.

Developing use of systems as intelligence gathering techniques, the use of inferences/developing judgements and recommendations as well as influencing the response and direction will be important tasks. The role is a hybrid role based from either our Head Office campus in Binley, Coventry or Balloon Street, Manchester.

Benefits:

• 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme
• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• Personal pension with matched contributions
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Extensive wellbeing support
• Life assurance (6 times annual salary)

To be successful in this role it’s essential you have:

• Experience of working across economic crime intelligence with a strong understanding of how intelligence is applied in FS
• Experience of working in regulatory, risk and control environments.
• Good understanding of fraud and financial crime typologies.
• Good knowledge of intelligence cycles.
• The ability to produce intelligence summaries of fraud cases, develop intelligence packages and identify emerging fraud risks.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to handle complex investigations and high-pressure situations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Good understanding of Economic Crime fraud risk management

Desirable experience needed will be:

• Evidence of key stakeholder relationships within both private and public sector, including Law Enforcement Agencies
• Experience of working within an Economic Crime Intelligence Unit

To be successful you’ll be able to demonstrate experience of working across economic crime intelligence with a strong understanding of how intelligence is applied within a financial services environment to inform risk and enable decision making.

We’re one of the largest building societies in the UK and we share a mutual goal across our branches and our offices to improve the lives of others. We’re officially recognised as a ‘Great Place to Work’ and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing.

At the beginning of the year, The Co-operative Bank officially became part of our Group. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers and colleagues. We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us. All together, better.

Flexibility and why it matters

We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer

We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.

Location: Coventry