This is an exciting opportunity for an Accredited Financial Investigator to join SEROCU's Regional Economic Crime Capability, a specialist function dedicated to disrupting organised crime, tackling money laundering, and targeting illicit finances.
Working within the Civil Recovery in Summary Proceedings (CRiSP) Team, you will play a key role in proactively pursuing criminal assets through the use of CRiSP powers. The role offers the opportunity to lead complex standalone civil recovery investigations, including Account Freezing Orders, Crypto Wallet Freezing Orders, Cash Seizures, and Listed Asset Seizures.
As a lead investigator, you will manage a diverse portfolio of cases ranging from high-value, nationally significant investigations through to fast-paced operational referrals. You will be responsible for analysing financial evidence, developing intelligence, preparing court files, making applications to the courts, and presenting robust evidential packages to support recovery proceedings.
The role also involves adopting and progressing cash and listed asset investigations arising from seizures made at ports across the South East. This provides a unique opportunity to work alongside a wide range of law enforcement partners, supporting both reactive enforcement activity and proactive operational initiatives designed to disrupt criminality and deny offenders access to their illicit gains.
As referrals can be varied and unpredictable, success in the role requires an adaptable, proactive, and investigative mindset. We are seeking a highly motivated individual who is comfortable taking ownership of cases from the outset, making key decisions, and driving investigations forward independently while also contributing effectively as part of a collaborative team environment.
Strong relationship-building and stakeholder engagement skills are essential, as partnership working is fundamental to the success of the team. You will work closely with regional and national law enforcement partners, regulatory bodies, and criminal justice agencies to achieve positive outcomes.
While the majority of work is undertaken during standard office hours, there will be occasions when you are required to support operational activity outside normal working hours, attend court hearings, or travel in support of investigations. You may also be required to participate in an on-call rota, providing remote support and advice to partners dealing with out-of-hours asset seizure opportunities.
This is a challenging and rewarding role that offers the opportunity to make a tangible impact on serious and organised crime by depriving criminals of the assets that enable and sustain their offending.
You must display the highest ethical standards and integrity. Ideally, we are looking for a fully accredited Financial Investigator (FIO, FI, Confiscation, CRiSP, Restraint, S.47), but if not, you will be required to complete the relevant entrants exam and training and thereafter submit the respective PDP to attain full accreditation with the NCA Proceeds of Crime Centre (PoCC).
You will be asked to demonstrate flexibility regarding working hours in line with operational demand and occasionally this may require working away from home or travel around the South East and beyond. For this reason a full UK Driving Licence is essential to the role.
Due to the nature of our work, security is of paramount importance to us and therefore it will be necessary to pass and maintain vetting level SC together with a number of enhanced security checks. In order to achieve this, you must have resided in the UK for the past five years. Exemptions may apply for overseas or other diplomatic service (with HM Government),and studying abroad.
You can find more information about security vetting here.
How to Apply
To apply, click on the “Apply” button below and submit your application before the closing date of Sunday 20 September 2026 at 23:55hrs
The leadership within CTPSE and SEROCU are actively committed to embedding and sustaining an inclusive culture that recognises and champions the diversity of our people, and promotes equity and equality so that everyone can succeed at work. The region is delivering this commitment through a long term strategy that takes a holistic and intersectional approach to wellbeing & inclusion.
Our strategy is underpinned by the five strategic objectives;
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Inclusive Culture – We will create, embed, and continually develop an inclusive culture for our people.
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Engaged & Involved – We will ensure our people are engaged, involved, and listened to.
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Wellbeing – We will prioritise the wellbeing of our people.
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Representation – We will attract, recruit, retain and develop a diverse workforce.
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Inclusive by Design – We will ensure that inclusion is a core principle of our policies, products, and decisions.
We welcome applications from those interested in part time and flexible working, and encourage applications from our under represented communities.
Our people say that benefits include a good work/life balance, a supportive and welcoming place to work and excellent terms including a generous pension scheme and annual leave entitlement.
If you have any questions about the role, please contact [email protected] quoting the Job Reference number 23803. If you have applied for this role in the last six months, we respectfully ask that you do not reapply at this current time.
IMPORTANT: If you are already a Thames Valley Police (TVP) member of staff and you have been in your post for less than twelve months, your application must be supported by your line manager. We will require written confirmation from your line manager in order to proceed.
Shift allowance, on-call or other job related allowances from your previous role will not be protected unless they are attached to the new role.
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