Salary: London from £46,000 to £61,000, depending on skills and experience

Are you looking to join a team that provides strategic and highly specialised central support to Enforcement & Market Oversight and the wider FCA?

The team/department

The Enforcement Intelligence & Specialist Services Directorate (EISS) sits at the heart of Enforcement & Market Oversight (EMO) and provides strategic and highly specialised central support to EMO and the wider FCA.

The Digital Forensics Unit within EISS provide comprehensive digital evidence services to Enforcement and Market Oversight providing strategic forensic investigative techniques for the acquisition, preservation, recovery, and presentation of digital evidence.

We are looking for 2 Associates to join the team on a 12-month basis, working in the office 5 days per week.

What you will be doing (the role) 

• Undertaking digital forensic investigations
• Collection of digital evidence/material including desktops, laptops, storage media and mobile devices during onsite visits, including search warrants, carrying out detailed evidential analysis and making recommendations
• Liaising with Investigation Case Teams, to provide strategic direction for digital forensic techniques in the recovery, processing and reporting of evidence
• Building, maintaining, and owning effective stakeholder relationships with colleagues in other business areas within the FCA and with external bodies
• Taking responsibility for drafting (delegated or otherwise) of all forms of documents (including witness statements, the statutory notices, technical reports) and correspondence with subjects, their legal representatives and witnesses and taking responsibility for quality assurance on cases
• Attending court to give evidence as required

What you will get from the role  

• You will have excellent learning, training, and personal development opportunities
• As an Academy business we place great value on your learning, and we offer development opportunities which will assist you in achieving your career aspirations
• Exposure to interesting, varied work in a priority area for the FCA with the opportunity to provide significant technical and strategic input

Our competitive flexible benefits scheme gives you the opportunity to create a personalised benefits package, tailored to suit your lifecycle. You can use this allowance to purchase additional benefits such as dental or cycle to work or you have the option top up your base salary by taking this as cash.  

Core benefits that you will receive as standard are:   

• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
• Private healthcare with Bupa  
• A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month (there are several contribution levels that increase depending on your age – up to 12% a month once you reach age 35)  
• Life assurance of eight times your basic salary  
• Income protection  

The skills and experience you will have  

Minimum   

We are a signatory to the Government’s Disability Confident scheme. This means that we will offer an interview to disabled candidates entering under the scheme, who best meet the minimum criteria for a role.  

• Prior Computer Forensic examination experience with imaging various forms of electronic media such as phones, laptops, desktops, and hard drives
• Experience with forensic tools such as FTK, Cellebrite, AXIOM and Nuix
• Experience in statement writing relating to the imaging work completed to a criminal court standard

Essential

• Experience of investigations involving serious fraud or other complex financial crime
• Ability to influence internal and external stakeholders and working constructively with decisions made by others, including when disagreeing with the decision made
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Experienced in presenting technical concepts to a variety of recipients, orally and in writing
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to form and maintain effective working relationships with peers, management, internal and external stakeholders across the organisation and external agencies
• Experience of giving evidence in court or tribunal

About the FCA

The FCA regulates the conduct of 50,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. We do this to make sure markets work well for individuals, businesses and the economy as a whole. For more information on what we do, our three-year strategy can be found here.  

The FCA's Values & Diversity

Our ambition is to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences and similarities enable us to be a better organisation – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better regulation.  

The FCA is committed to achieving greater diversity across all levels of the organisations. Given this, we particularly welcome applications from women, disabled and minority ethnic candidates for our Associate role.   

Flexible working

We welcome applications from candidates who are looking for flexible arrangements. Many of our staff work flexibly including working part-time, staggered hours, and job shares. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want but we won’t judge you for asking. 

Useful information

• Applications for this role close at 23.59 on 31st October 2024
• This role is graded as Associate - Level 8 - Regulatory
• The role will be 100% Lab based at the FCA Offices at 12 Endeavour Square, Stratford, London
• The role is a 12-month Fixed Term Contract

Got a question?    

If you are interested in learning more about the role, please contact:  

For internal applicants, please contact Louise Nash at Louise.Nash@fca.org.uk​

For external applicants, please contact Aaron Ward at Aaron.Ward@fca.org.uk

What to expect from our interview process

If your application is successful, you will be invited to complete a competency-based interview with possible 2nd round interview.​

Application support

We want to remove any possible barriers and are committed to providing a wide range of reasonable adjustments so that you can keep the focus on your conversations and be at your best.  

If you have an accessibility requirement, disability, or condition that means you might require changes to the recruitment process, please contact your recruiter to discuss this further. Our aim is to make your application as easy and comfortable as possible, and your recruiter will be happy to work with you to make any necessary arrangements where possible. 

Security Clearance/Vetting  

The successful candidate will hold or will be required to obtain Security Clearance (SC) level vetting.

Please note that all applications must be submitted through our online portal, applications sent via email will not be accepted.