Deputy Director - Head of Financial Intelligence Unit

Red Snapper Recruitment are recruiting for a Deputy Director - Head of Financial Intelligence Unit.

The role of Deputy Director - Head of Financial Intelligence Unit is a senior leadership role within the Economic & Financial Crime Bureau (EFCB). The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) is the Bailiwick centre for the receipt, analysis, development and dissemination of information relating to suspicion of money laundering, associated predicated offences, financing of terrorism and proliferation financing (ML/TF/PF) to other competent authorities, both domestically and internationally.

Location - Guernsey (based permanently on Island)
Contract - Permanent
Salary - £91,205 - £102,770

Main duties and responsibilities

• To ensure focused intelligence development strategies, standard operating procedures and policies are in place and that they align to the requirements set out in the UK's National Intelligence Model (NIM).
• To oversee and drive the FIUs intelligence development work for both domestic and international referrals, providing staff with technical and operational advice, direction, and support as necessary. Ensuring a priority emphasis on the development of high-quality intelligence packages identifying viable cases of international standalone money laundering for criminal investigation.
• To maintain controls and oversight that measure the quality and timeliness of international standalone money laundering disseminations to the EFCB whilst ensuring that referrals are consistent with the primary National Risk Assessment (NRA) money laundering risk, i.e. the laundering of the proceeds of foreign criminality.
• To oversee the management and control of the strategic analysis undertaken by the FIU, working collaboratively with other authorities, primarily concerning the threat and risk of ML/TF/PF to the Bailiwick of Guernsey, as an international finance centre.

Person Specification

• Over 5 years' working at a senior management level with significant strategic leadership and operational experience in combatting cross-border economic crime and money laundering, or an equivalent level of experience in a commensurate field.
• Strong leadership and management skills, with extensive experience in an economic or financial crime environment with a proven ability to direct and manage the receipt and development of intelligence in adherence to the UK National Intelligence Model (NIM), with particular focus on work to identify viable cases of international standalone money laundering justifying criminal investigation.
• A high level of understanding and experience of the criminal justice process, legislation, and the rules of evidence with the ability to perform to the highest ethical standards and a commitment to upholding the law.

Must be eligible for Security Clearance.

The deadline for applications for this position is 23rd May 2025.

If this role is not for you but you do know somebody who would be interested please refer them. We have a referral bonus scheme and will pay £75, in retail vouchers of your choice, for referrals who are not already known to us.

Due to the high volume of applications received, if you do not hear from us within 7 working days, I am afraid your application has been unsuccessful.

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