Trainee Intelligence Analyst - Officer - Croydon

Discover what it's like to work in a compliance role that makes an impact. Could you help us shape a stronger, fairer future? Your next career move starts here. Are you naturally inquisitive with a passion for problem solving? Are you a critical and creative thinker? Do you want to make a difference, tackling serious and organised crime and non-compliance as part of a cross-government Intelligence Analysis profession and community? If the answer is yes, then we would love to hear from you!

We are looking for motivated people with the skills and aptitude to join us as a trainee Intelligence Analyst. You can look forward to receiving our highly regarded training programme (recognised by the Cabinet Office's Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment), the support of a mentor, and excellent potential for career development.

Intelligence Assessment (IA) forms part of the Analysis function within HMRC's Risk and Intelligence Service Directorate. IA provides HMRC with dedicated and professional intelligence analytical expertise, delivering high quality products to customers across the department and wider government.

As an Intelligence Analyst Officer, you will be part of a dynamic environment making use of your passion for problem solving, ability to learn new skills, and naturally inquisitive nature. This role will give you plenty of scope for communicating and influencing, as you work across lines of business and connect with customers to negotiate product requirements and deadlines. You'll also need to be naturally inquisitive with a passion for problem solving - skills which will help you to produce clear, concise, and persuasive written reports with recommendations, to support the decisions of enforcement teams both inside and outside HMRC.

We'll train you in analysis, assessment and tradecraft and help you develop the ability to use structured analytical techniques and use your creative and critical thinking. Under RIS Intelligence Assessment's current operating model, you'll create products with an operational focus, and you'll also have opportunity to work alongside tactical and strategic intelligence assessments. You'll collaborate with staff of all grades as you learn to utilise and exploit all available information sources and subject matter knowledge, and work within the confines of legal process and structure. As part of your role, you may be required to occasionally travel away and stay overnight from your home office location.

You'll play an important role in our team of over 100 colleagues, with the following key responsibilities:

• Delivering assessments which enhance the development of intelligence and support criminal investigations.
• Using structured analytical approaches, tools, and techniques to produce clear, and persuasive briefings, written reports and visualisations that inform operational planning, and to make judgements and recommendations.
• Identifying risks, threats and vulnerabilities that can be exploited by criminals for financial gain.
• Working with case managers/officers and investigators to establish and define requirements, managing expectations, presenting outcomes, and ensuring timely delivery.
• Contributing to brainstorms, problem solves, critiquing reports and judgements during peer review.
• Improving the quality of analytical outputs by sharing learned knowledge and expertise.
• Representing IA amongst the professional intelligence analysis peer group and across wider cross government profession.

A condition of employment is the satisfactory progression through the 12-month (adjusted pro-rata for part-time working patterns) Professional Trial Period (PTP). Successful applicants will be conditionally appointed for the duration of the PTP. Throughout the PTP, your progress against a set of pre-defined assessments for HMRC Intelligence Analysts will be evaluated and marked. You will need to pass the training examination process as well as meet the general standards of the PTP. The PTP and your probation period will run concurrently. If you do not successfully complete your probation period and/or the PTP, your employment with HMRC may be terminated. Applicants who pass their probation period but fail the PTP may be offered alternative, less specialised roles within HMRC. The decision on whether you are offered one of these roles will be based on several factors including performance, behaviours, and location, and it may be at a lower grade. The structure of the training programme includes several multi-day courses. Not all courses can be delivered in your home office location, so you may be required to travel and be away from home for up to a week at a time.

To find out more about the role and the application process, you can join a 45-minute webinar session via Microsoft Teams.