Cyber Forensics Practitioner

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 an Associate to join our Legal Professional Privilege Team on a permanent basis. The role will be 80% Lab based at our London office.

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