Financial Intelligence Officer SIDT - NEROCU
Vacancy Type: Police Staff
Area Command / Department: NEROCU
Location: Sunderland
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Hours: Full Time
Closing Date: 31/05/2026
Hours/Contract: 37 Hours, Fixed Term Contract/Internal Secondment Until 31 March 2029
Location: Sunderland
Working for: North East Regional Organised Crime Unit ("NEROCU")
The North East Regional Organised Crime Unit is one of nine Regional Organised Crime Units ("ROCU") in England and Wales who lead the regional response to tackling serious and organised crime whilst supporting local and national delivery. The ROCU network continues to expand and Home Office funding through police officer uplift and increased police staff capacity presents exciting opportunities to further enhance service delivery and positively impact on our partners and the public. The Home Office Serious and Organised Crime Strategy defines ROCU as leading the regional fight against Serious and Organised Crime and NEROCU have a critical role in leading, connecting and coordinating delivery across our region in all four P’s of the strategy; Pursue – prosecuting and disrupting people engaged in serious and organised criminality. Prevent – preventing people from engaging in serious and organised criminality. Protect – increasing protection against organised crime. Prepare – reducing the impact of serious and organised crime where it takes place.NEROCU comprises of specialist teams delivering across intelligence, operations, investigations, cyber, economic, technical and digital capabilities.
Join a team at the forefront of tackling Serious and Organised Crime, where you’ll use financial intelligence to identify offenders, support investigations and help disrupt criminal activity.
You’ll bring knowledge of financial intelligence systems such as Moneyweb, ARENA or SARS Digital Service (SDS), using them to uncover insights that lead to prosecutions and asset recovery. Experience with Altia Financial Investigation Toolkit (FIT) is also key, enabling you to efficiently process, standardise and analyse complex banking data from both electronic and paper sources, including balancing and categorising financial information.
Working closely with regional and national partners, you’ll share intelligence, identify emerging trends and drive best practice—contributing to a collaborative, intelligence-led approach across policing.
What you’ll do
- Develop plans with the Senior Financial Intelligence Officer and liaise with SIDT National Tactical Coordinators to align objectives and ways of working, ensuring financial intelligence supports investigations effectively.
- Proactively interrogate systems such as Moneyweb, ARENA, SDS and SDA to identify and develop financial intelligence into actionable opportunities to disrupt Serious and Organised Crime (SOC).
- Analyse and process banking material using Altia Financial Investigation Toolkit (FIT), including balancing and categorising data to support Economic Crime investigations.
- Obtain and maintain Financial Intelligence Officer (FIO) accreditation (if not already held), supported through continuous professional development.
- Enhance intelligence through Pre-Order and Tournier Rule enquiries with financial institutions, supporting Financial Investigators in securing financial orders.
- Receive, record and appropriately sanitise financial intelligence in line with the National Intelligence Model and the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996.
- Apply the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, alongside other legislation and partner agency channels, to develop intelligence packages for financial and wider investigations.
- Interrogate the Financial Intelligence Gateway (FIG), Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and other data sources to build intelligence for investigative use.
What you’ll bring
- NCA Financial Intelligence Officer accreditation (or willingness to achieve)
- Experience or knowledge of Moneyweb, ARENA, SDS/SDA and Financial Intelligence Gateway, including handling SARs
- Working knowledge of Altia FIT to process, analyse, balance and categorise financial data
- Understanding of CPIA, disclosure requirements, PACE, POCA and Police Conduct Regulations
- Experience developing financial intelligence and producing high-quality intelligence products
- Strong organisational skills, able to prioritise workloads and meet deadlines
- Proactive, flexible approach with the ability to apply investigative methods and problem‑solve
- Confident communicator, able to present complex information clearly and influence at all levels
- Ability to build effective working relationships across teams and partner agencies
- Strong research skills, with the ability to gather and evaluate information from multiple sources
- Strong IT skills and experience using systems, databases and standard packages
- Professional approach, maintaining confidentiality and compliance with data protection and MOPI
- Awareness of emerging threats and legislative changes
- Willingness and ability to travel across the UK at short notice where required, working independently to meet role demands (reasonable adjustments and alternative travel arrangements will be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010)
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.
Benefits
- 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
- Flexi time – allowing you to fit your working hours around your individual needs
- Flexible working (we are happy to discuss options such as compressed hours)
- Agile working – option to work from home, your team zone, and spaces across the force
- 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
Employment Terms
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.
Important notes
Please note if you are a current NEROCU/Northumbria Police employee interested in applying for this role as a 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.
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