Salary: Band 8, £36,066 - £41,028 (Please note it is Northumbria Police policy to appoint at the beginning of the band)
Location: Sunderland
Hours: 37 Hours per week
Fixed term contract / secondment until 31st March 2029
The role
Join the North East Regional Organised Crime Unit's Proactive Economic Crime Team (PECT) and help tackle serious fraud, money laundering and organised crime across the region. This is a unique opportunity to use analytical skills to support real investigations, identify offenders and victims, uncover criminal networks and provide the evidential products that help bring offenders to justice. Working as part of a specialist proactive team, you will play a vital role in intelligence development, disruption activity and supporting complex investigations from initial referral through to prosecution.
What you’ll do
As an Analyst within the North East Regional Organised Crime Unit's Proactive Economic Crime Team (PECT), you will play a key role in supporting investigations into serious fraud, money laundering and organised crime across the North East.
Working alongside investigators, financial investigators and partner agencies, you will transform large and complex datasets into intelligence and evidential opportunities that support operational decision making, disruptions and criminal prosecutions.
You will:
- Analyse large volumes of data, including banking records, telecommunications data, digital downloads and intelligence material, to identify criminal networks, offending patterns and investigative opportunities.
- Support Officers in Charge (OICs) by interpreting complex evidence and identifying links between suspects, victims, money flows and organised crime groups.
- Produce high-quality evidential products for court proceedings, including sequence of events charts, communication analyses, financial network diagrams and investigative summaries.
- Assist in the identification of previously unknown victims, suspects and associates through the examination of large datasets and multiple information sources.
- Develop intelligence packages and analytical products that support proactive enforcement activity, disruption opportunities and asset recovery investigations.
- Work closely with investigators to develop lines of enquiry and provide analytical support to fraud, money laundering and organised crime investigations.
- Identify intelligence gaps, test investigative hypotheses and provide recommendations to support operational decision making.
- Contribute to the PECT objective of disrupting serious organised crime, protecting communities and recovering criminal assets.
Sound interesting? For further information, and to support your application, please view the job description
What you’ll bring
We're seeking an individual who is naturally inquisitive, enjoys problem solving and can make sense of large amounts of information. You may have experience in intelligence analysis, financial investigation, research, data analysis or evidence review.
Essential requirements:
- Ability to identify meaningful information from complex datasets.
- Present analytical findings clearly and confidently.
- Produce professional reports, charts and evidential products suitable for court and investigative use.
- Work effectively with investigators and partner agencies.
- Think critically and develop innovative solutions to complex investigative challenges.
- Conduct in-depth analysis and research using a wide range of information and data sources.
- Apply analytical tools and techniques to support evidence-based decision making.
- Ensure information is managed appropriately, maintaining data quality, integrity and compliance requirements.
- Plan, collect, integrate and evaluate data from multiple sources to meet analytical requirements.
- Use Microsoft Office applications effectively and be willing to learn specialised analytical and information systems.
- Hold a full UK driving licence and be willing to travel throughout the UK when required.
We know it's important for you to feel that you're not only part of a great team, but part of a community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Harnessing these differences creates a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, and their talents are fully utilised. Appointments are based on merit alone.
Interested to learn more? For further information about the role please contact [email protected].
What we offer
- 26 days’ leave (increasing to 30 days for 5 years+ service) plus 8 bank holidays
- NHS Fleet Solutions Car Lease Scheme
- Enhanced maternity, shared parental and adoption leave
- Fantastic market-leading public sector pension scheme with up to 16% employer contribution
- Corporate travel schemes – local rail, bus services and metro discounts
- Access to private healthcare and eye test vouchers
- Discounts on shopping and eating out thanks to the Blue Light Card and Blue Light Tickets
- We’ve invested in extensive paid sick leave, trained mental health first aiders on-site, an employee advice service for the times you need that additional support.
- Access to gyms in some stations
- Sports & Social Club – join our thriving sports scene at Team NP and enjoy further exclusive discounts on days out and travel
- Cycle to work scheme
- Opportunity to volunteer in local community
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of an Analyst with NEROCU. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by an assessment, presentation and face-to-face interview. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert. We are currently recruiting for two Analyst positions within NEROCU: one in the Analysis Team and one in the Proactive Economic Crime Team (PECT).If you would like to be considered for both opportunities, you must submit a separate application for each role. However, applicants who apply for both positions will only be required to complete one recruitment process. Results from the assessment process will be used to determine suitability for both roles.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, with whom we collaborate with to improve the lives of disabled employees. We are also a Disability Confident Employer, therefore if you demonstrate that you meet the minimum criteria for this role as stated in the advert, we will progress your application and offer you an interview.
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via [email protected] for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Security Clearance (SC) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Terms of appointment
This is a fixed term role subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
Please note if you are interested in applying for this secondment opportunity, please discuss this with your Line Manager and gain agreement prior to applying.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
