Managing Intelligence Analyst - Birmingham

About this role

Job Description

We're looking for a talented Managing Intelligence Analyst to primarily support our Counter Fraud team and the Fraud and Financial Crime practice area. You’ll deliver expert analytical support across a diverse national client base, and you’ll be passionate about developing the role as an integral part of the firm's legal services.

The role

This is a fee-earning intelligence role at the heart of our Counter Fraud team and Fraud and Financial Crime practice area, based in our Birmingham office and serving clients nationally. You’ll carry real responsibility for identifying and growing the firm's intelligence offering, supporting insurers, local authorities, public sector bodies, and corporate clients across due diligence, litigation support, fraud investigations, and asset tracing. As the managing analyst for the Counter Fraud & Intelligence team, you’ll be responsible for ensuring quality and consistency of service delivery to all clients at all times.

What You'll Be Doing

• Conducting detailed OSINT desktop investigations and intelligence enquiries and analysis, and preparing reports and recommendations for clients.
• Providing ad hoc intelligence advice and investigation support to the Counter Fraud and wider client teams; preparing witness statements; preserving searches and intelligence enquiries as court-ready evidence; and attending court as required.
• Independently managing GDPR-compliant DPA requests to other insurers and businesses (including IFIG and DVLA vehicle histories) and completing UK GDPR/DPA-compliant information requests in a timely fashion on instruction from fee earners and/or clients.

What We're Looking For

• Full working knowledge of OSINT tools and industry-standard validation tools used to verify identity, financial information, and locate assets.
• Understanding of fraud risk management, fraud vulnerabilities, and the investigation skills required to address them, including experience of tools used to investigate fraud, financial crime, and cyber vulnerabilities within organisations.
• Demonstrable intelligence, investigation, or security/enforcement agency experience, or equivalent in an insurance, business fraud, or criminal investigation setting.

Why Join Us?

We offer a flexible and hybrid working model. Our comprehensive benefits package includes private medical insurance, pension contributions, an employee assistance programme, and a range of wellbeing initiatives. Enhanced parental leave is also available, reflecting our commitment to supporting you through every stage of your career and life.

Many of our people work flexibly in some way and we’re open to considering how we can accommodate flexible working arrangements alongside role requirements. If this is important to you, please talk to us about it during the recruitment process.

We celebrate diversity and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, social economic background or age.

We’re a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.

Take a look at our candidate interview pack for information about reasonable adjustments, what you can expect during the interview process, and guidance to help you prepare.

Please review full job description and if the role is of interest, and suits your specific skill set, then please apply. Or for more information, please contact recruitment@brownejacobson.com.

Note to recruitment agencies

We request that recruitment agencies refrain from submitting CVs unless specifically instructed to do so by the recruitment team. Please be aware that any speculative CVs sent by agencies without direct invitation from the recruitment team will not be recognised as represented by the agency and will be considered a gift.

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