Solicitors Regulation Authority
Forensic Investigation Officer
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Do you want to be part of the SRA's dynamic front-line regulatory investigation team?
Successful candidates will have proven experience in one or more of the following areas - investigation, accountancy/audit, or professional regulation. We are looking to recruit multiple Forensic Investigation Officers. The role is field based and requires travel.
The role
Working in this high-profile role, you will manage your own portfolio of cases, investigate financial discrepancies and inaccuracies and analyse complex information and data.
- You will attend law firms throughout England and Wales to determine whether there has been serious professional misconduct, which includes breaches of the SRA Accounts Rules.
- You will gather evidence, both remotely and onsite, interview key individuals and obtain witness statements.
- You will compile robust, clear, evidence-based and factual reports of the findings that will inform our regulatory decisions. This could lead us to take disciplinary proceedings or to close a law firm.
- You will also represent the SRA in court, giving evidence of your investigation's findings.
You will need to be able to review and analyse complex information, including numerical and accounting information, and documents relating to legal transactions. The role will require you to develop a strong understanding of our Standards and Regulations. This includes the SRA Solicitors Accounts Rules which set out how solicitors record and account for client money.
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What is in it for you?
- Use your skills to analyse complex information and accounts, identify breaches and present information clearly to highlight serious professional misconduct.
- Enjoy a varied role - one day you could be investigating money laundering whilst the next you could be interviewing a victim of cyber fraud.
- Be at the front-line in protecting the public interest, where no two days are the same.
- Enjoy the flexibility of working in the field with the comfort of being part of a small, motivated and supportive team of investigators.
- Exposure to investigations that are highly sensitive in nature and may gain high levels of media interest.
- Generous flexible benefits package, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.
What we are looking for
- Proven experience in one or more of the following areas - investigation, accountancy/audit, or professional regulation.
- Strong numerical skills and experience of analysing complex information.
- Excellent communication skills, both orally and in writing.
- Flexibility, tenacity, and ability to adjust priorities at short notice.
- If you're based outside London, a full UK driving licence is required.
Useful and additional information
- There is a full role profile included at the bottom of this advert.
- Starting salary for this role based outside London is £50,580 (plus £5,600 car cash allowance) and £55,638 for London (plus £5,600 car cash allowance).
- The role is field-based and will require extensive travel throughout England and Wales as necessary, including to our main office in Birmingham. A car allowance of £5,600 per annum (subject to minimum mileage criteria) and appropriate equipment will be provided.
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- Select the apply button at the bottom of the advert.
- Please upload a CV and provide evidence of your knowledge, skills, and experience and how they specifically relate to key requirements of the role, in particular what we have highlighted under the 'What we are looking for' section.
- The responses you provide in the application form will be used to shortlist your application.
- Answers to each criterion must be no more than 300 words.
- The closing date of this advert is 10 August 2026 at 09:00, however, we may choose to close this at an earlier date. If you are interested, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
- Assessment exercises are tentatively scheduled to take place virtually between 19 and 21 August. Successful candidates will then be invited to attend an in-person interview in either Birmingham or London during the week commencing 14 September. Both stages are subject to confirmation.
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