Intelligence Officer

Requirements of the role

The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.

Enforcement & Market Oversight (EMO) has the responsibility for market monitoring; delivery of the functions of Listing Transactions; and for the investigation and prosecution of misconduct using the whole spectrum of criminal, civil and administrative sanctions and remedies against firms and individuals.

The division aims to:

Be a world leading function, with professional and motivated staff, taking the right cases that have a positive impact on the way financial services work

Promote the conduct that supports trusted, orderly, and efficient primary and secondary markets

The intelligence functions spans two Departments which sit within EMO however it is a central function to the entire FCA, providing many important service across the business as well as being embedded in many of the organisations processes; with accuracy, timeliness and relevance at the heart of what we deliver.

The Intelligence Tactical Enquiries and Research Team provides intelligence support to enable the organisation to discharge its regulatory and criminal responsibilities, which includes working with Authorisation, Supervision and Listing Transactions. We provide accurate and meaningful information to aid their decision making and respond in a timely way to requests for them to meet their SLAs and Statutory Deadlines.

We work to national law enforcement standards in intelligence handling and conduct internal and external research and engage with varied, domestic, and international partners to facilitate the best “all source” information to support this work. We seek to improve our delivery and focus our outputs in line with the Transformation strategy and best use of data/information held by the organisation.

This is a permanent position within the team.

What you will be doing?

Receive, review and action requests from internal and external stakeholders for intelligence, responding in an accurate and timely manner (SIS requests, FIN-NET referrals, Joint Money Laundering Intelligence Taskforce enquiries etc)

Undertaking the necessary delivery of intelligence specialist support and advice to Authorisations, Supervision and Listing Transaction areas to provide them with appropriate, accurate and timely information for decision making

Researching, drafting, and disseminating intelligence material (including reports and other products) to inform actions and interventions. Including the appropriate handling and dissemination of sensitive intelligence

Support the whole of Intelligence in area such as MI, Risk and act as resilience to support the functionality of the Intelligence database

Responding to FOIA and DSAR request to ensure the FCA meets its obligation under Data Protection/GDPR

Building and maintaining effective working relationships with colleagues in other business areas across the FCA and with external stakeholders as appropriate

View on member website