Operations Manager

Red Snapper Recruitment are recruiting for an Operations Managers to work in the Criminal Investigation Team within the Economic and Financial Crime Bureau (EFCB).

Location - Guernsey (based permanently on Island)
Contract - Permanent
Salary - 73,242 - 90,224 per annum

Main duties and responsibilities

• Develop high knowledge and understanding of the FATF international standards and work with counterparts to improve levels of effectiveness in respect of Immediate Outcomes 6, 7 and 8.
• Provide clear management, leadership and direction to staff, providing mentoring, empowerment, guidance and support to maximise their development, efficiency, and morale in order that they can deliver their best to achieve successful outcomes.

Key Responsibilities - Criminal Investigation Team (CIT)

• Lead and manage investigators within the criminal investigation team, ensuring investigations are proactively and expeditiously progressed in accordance with relevant legal requirements, this includes managing the preparation of advice and case files for submission to the Economic Crime Unit within the Law Officers of the Crown.
• Ensure focused investigation strategies are in place, regularly reviewing progress against plans in concert with investigators, in-house lawyers and Law Officers of the Crown to ensure appropriate and timely actions are pursued.

Key Responsibilities - Asset Recovery Team (ART)

• Lead and manage investigators within the asset recovery team. Working with the Law Officers of the Crown, ensure the full range of investigatory and legal tools and remedies, pursuant to the Forfeiture of Assets in Civil Proceedings (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2023 are considered and deployed at the earliest opportunity to aid timely outcomes in conviction and non-conviction based asset recovery cases, and maximise the impact of financial restitution.
• Provide advice and assistance to law enforcement colleagues in relation to the freezing, seizure and forfeiture of instrumentalities of crime and in selected cases assume responsibility for asset recovery actions in respect of volume crime operations.

Key Responsibilities - Proactive International Money Laundering Intelligence Development Team (PIMLIDT)

• Lead a hybrid team of intelligence officers and investigators, working collaboratively to affect a palpable step change in the number of viable cases identified of international standalone money laundering, for investigation by the EFCB, proactively developing intelligence through a range of sources and techniques.
• Engage and work with domestic and international counterparts to identify opportunities to access the widest range of financial information, expanding intelligence gathering techniques to reduce the reliance on SARs.

Key Responsibilities - Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU)

• Lead a team of Financial Intelligence Officers to deliver a measurable increase in the FIU operational outputs, which reflect the higher risks identified in National Risk Assessment 'NRA' (NRA 2 and the NRA Legal Persons and Arrangements) and specifically the primary strategic threat from the money laundering of foreign criminality
• The primary focus is on affecting a palpable step change in the number of viable cases identified of international standalone money laundering, for investigation by the EFCB, proactively and collaboratively working with the PIMLIDT to deliver viable criminal referrals at pace

Key Criteria

• Demonstrate operational and managerial experience in an economic or financial crime environment, with a proven ability to investigate serious and complex economic crime and money laundering cases.
• Experience working in a multi-disciplinary setting and effectively engaging with a wide range of stakeholders, domestically and internationally, to proactively work to achieve operational objectives, within agreed deadlines.

Qualifications/Skills

• Relevant professional accreditation or qualification.
• Evidence of senior leadership training

Must be eligible for Security Clearance.
The deadline for applications for this position is 3rd December 2025.

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