Accredited Financial Investigator

Job Description:

📍 Location: Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham (Hybrid)

💷 Salary: £35,663 - A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

🕒 Contract Type: Permanent – Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Join the Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) as a Financial Investigator, leading efforts to maximise asset recovery and remove the proceeds of serious and organised crime. You’ll conduct complex investigations under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA), managing restraint, confiscation, and detained cash cases. As the National Portfolio Lead, you’ll raise investigation standards, support enforcement teams, and collaborate across policy and operational areas to combat fraud, deny criminals illicit gains, and protect the public from harm.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

1. Lead the planning, preparing, and managing of serious/ serially non-compliant investigations to identify and pursue opportunities for the recovery of criminal assets by means of confiscation, forfeiture and seizure of cash in order to further disruption of criminal activity.
2. Providing advice and guidance across the wider team while carrying out case work, ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation, professional practices, internal quality procedures and Internal Auditing Standards.
3. Manage relationships with stakeholders to meet objectives of the wider team for example, Intelligence, Prosecution and Legal Services (PLS), Investigations and Counter Fraud (I&CF) and Planning and performance

Benefits

Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave).
• 8 Bank Holidays plus an additional Privilege Day to mark the King’s birthday.
• Access to the staff discount portal.
• Excellent career development opportunities and the potential to undertake professional qualifications relevant to your role paid for by the department, such as CIPD, Prince2, apprenticeships, etc.
• Joining a diverse and inclusive workforce with a range of staff communities to support all our colleagues.
• 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme providing free confidential help and advice for staff.
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

About you

Essential qualifications/licenses:

• Already working towards or has held or holds and maintains though CPD National Crime Agency Accredited Financial Investigator qualification.
• A full UK driving license

You will be required to provide evidence that you hold any essential qualifications/licenses at some point during the recruitment process. If you cannot provide evidence, your application will be withdrawn.

Required experience:

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

• Experience of conducting financial investigations under the Proceeds of Crime legislation
• Extensive knowledge of Casework Management systems including experience of managing all aspects of casework, procedures, SLA’s, and referral processes
• Ability to deal with conflict
• Experience in planning, dealing with and managing investigations
• Knowledge & experience of conducting interviews under the appropriate process
• Knowledge and understanding of criminal justice procedures including the Criminal procedures and investigations Act (CPIA) and Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE)