Location of Role: Rayleigh
Advert Closing Date: 04/09/2026
Starting Salary: £42,612.00 (pro-rata for part-time vacancies)
Part/Full Time: Full Time
Contract Type: Temporary/Fixed Term
Working Pattern: Mon-Fri
Weekend/Evening Working: No
Are you ready to step up and lead in a fast-paced, intelligence-led environment? We are offering a 12-month temporary role to supervise an already established Financial Intelligence team, playing a key role in maximising financial intelligence and supporting complex investigations.
This is a high-impact role suited to someone who can think quickly, lead effectively, and build strong relationships across the organisation and beyond. You will need to be a fast learner, proactive, and confident in making decisions under pressure.
What you’ll be doing:
- Lead and support a team of financial intelligence officers developing effective and informed responses to financial intelligence in all it’s forms.
- Make time-critical decisions on sensitive intelligence, ensuring compliance with legislation and policy.
- Directing research and analysis activity, setting priorities and ensuring timely, accurate responses.
- Manage incoming intelligence and enquiries, advising the force of what Financial Intelligence can offer and making sure that requests are appropriate and responded to effectively.
- Work collaboratively with internal teams and external partners, supporting joint investigations.
- Provide expert financial intelligence advice in complex and sensitive cases.
- Deliver training and raise awareness to improve organisational understanding and use of financial intelligence.
- Maintain knowledge of POCA 2002 and wider asset recovery powers, applying this in practice along side investigative opportunities and disruption methods.
- Drive performance and development, including quality assurance, welfare and continuous improvement.
- Developing Policies and procedures in relation to Financial Intelligence to ensure the team are working effectively and prioritising workloads appropriately.
We are looking for a confident leader who can supervise, motivate and develop others with a sound understanding of Proceeds of Crime and Intelligence principles (or strong willingness to develop quickly).
Within your application please provide evidence of the following essential and desirable criteria:
Essential:
- Previous experience of managing workloads and prioritising tasks.
- Strong communication skills both written and verbal across a range of audiences.
- Strong analytical skills, able to process large amounts of complex information in a time pressured environment.
Desirable:
- Understanding of criminal and civil investigation processes and how they work together.
Your application for this role will be shortlisted on the content you provide within the “reason for application” question, within the application form itself. CV’s, covering letters or attachments are not included in the shortlist. Within your “reason for application” answer, please refer to any experience, skills, and abilities you feel you have that will make you suitable for this role, based on the role criteria stated in the job advert or job description. Please provide as much detail as possible as insufficient content may mean you do not meet the shortlisting criteria, however please note this question is limited to 9000 characters and this system will count spaces and blank lines as characters. This count may differ from the Microsoft Word word count function therefore you may wish to use a different online character counter to check the characters used.
Depending on your current vetting level and security clearances, you may be required to complete additional vetting information during the recruitment process.
Kent Police and Essex Police welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, sex, or employment status.
Please let us know if you require extra support at any stage of the application process, or for further information regarding this position, please email us at [email protected] stating ‘Application Support and Adjustments’ in the title of your email. Alternatively, you can call us on 01245 452833. Where appropriate we will make adjustments to the selection process, working arrangements and/or the working environment provided it is reasonable in all the circumstances to do so.
If you’re not from the UK, you must be a resident in the UK and have lived here continuously for the last three years. You must also be free from restrictions with indefinite leave to remain. If you’re from the UK you must have lived here continuously for the last three years. This doesn’t apply to those serving abroad in the British Armed Forces.
As a Disability Confident Leader we:
- Have subjected our Disability Confident self-assessment to external challenge and validation.
- Are taking an active leadership role in encouraging and helping other employers on their journey to becoming Disability Confident.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion are central to the values of our organisation. At Essex Police we value and embrace the unique experiences, identities and abilities that each of us bring to our roles. We strive to empower everyone to bring their authentic self openly and safely to work.
Through the dedicated commitment of our support networks, DE&I team and wider HR departments, we are on a journey to embed our DE&I commitments, ensuring Essex Police is an employer of choice; where everyone feels included.
Essex Police and Kent Police are an equal opportunities employer. Communications may be recorded for monitoring purposes.
