The Pensions Regulator
Intelligence Analyst
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Role title: Intelligence Analyst
TPR grade & pay group: Core – Lead Associate
Directorate: Enforcement and Legal Group
Salary: £39,751 Per Annum
Contract type: FTC / Internal Secondment until May 2027
Location: Brighton/hybrid 6 days per month in the office
The Role And Responsibilities
As an Intelligence Analyst, you’ll play a key role in protecting savers and supporting a fair, resilient pensions system. You’ll develop high-quality intelligence products that help colleagues understand risks, spot emerging issues, and make well-informed decisions. Working closely with teams across TPR and with external partners, you’ll analyse complex information, identify gaps, draw out meaning, and provide clear recommendations that guide our criminal, civil, and regulatory activity.
Your work will directly support investigations and help shape how TPR responds to threats across the pensions landscape. You’ll collaborate with others to share intelligence, strengthen insight, and continually improve the way we work. You’ll also contribute to enhancing our tools, techniques, and best practice, while growing your own skills through ongoing learning and development aligned with TPR’s values.
This is a role where your curiosity, analytical thinking, and desire to make a positive difference will have real impact—helping us protect millions of savers and support a thriving pensions environment.
This Role Is Ideal For Someone Who
- Enjoys making sense of complex information and turning it into clear insights.
- Is motivated by work that protects people and supports good outcomes.
- Values collaboration and builds strong, trusting relationships.
- Likes improving processes, tools, or ways of working.
- Thrives in a role where learning and professional growth are encouraged.
The role criteria
- Ability to lead the production of intelligence development reports, including generating inferences, identifying gaps, and assessing threat.
- Ability to contribute to decisions on triage, escalation, disruption, and enforcement activity.
- Experience providing intelligence and analytical support to criminal, civil, and regulatory investigations.
- Experience producing analytical products, including analysis of financial, communications, and OSINT data.
- Experience building relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support intelligence sharing.
- Experience developing and aligning intelligence techniques and tools with national best practice.
- Knowledge of national intelligence and analysis standards, including the National Intelligence Model.
- Knowledge of, or ability to learn, relevant legislation such as the Pensions Acts, Data Protection Act, and PACTT principles.
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The team
The Intelligence team plays a vital role in helping TPR identify, assess, and reduce risks that could cause harm to savers. We provide professional intelligence services that support informed, intelligence-led decision making across the organisation. Working closely with teams across TPR and with external partners, we gather, evaluate, and analyse information to understand its relevance and reliability, turning it into meaningful insight that guides action at strategic, tactical, and operational levels.
TPR Offers
- Genuine opportunities for learning and development.
- A values-led, inclusive environment.
- Hybrid working and flexible shift patterns.
- A vibrant workplace with employee networks (Disability, Family, LGBT+, Minority Ethnic, Mental Health, Women’s).
Reward And Benefits
We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech, and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.
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Our culture
TPR strives to be a high-performing organisation, and we prioritise our people's growth and well-being. We offer various learning, secondment, and development opportunities, support flexible working, and foster a diverse and inclusive environment.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion is very important to us, and we strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. Our modern Brighton offices are in Telecom House overlooking Preston Park, they are over two floors of a shared building facility, and when designed in 2023 we followed the government’s workplace design guide to ensure accessibility by design was achieved for our section.
We're proud to have a range of networks and opportunities to bring people together with supportive and safe spaces to connect with one another.
About The Pensions Regulator
With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation with real purpose and who are proud of their diverse range of skills and experience that positively impact on millions of people. Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe.
Our Corporate Strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should continue to evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the pensions landscape. We believe diversity and inclusion are vital to good decision-making for positive saver outcomes. We’re committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and dynamic work environment where everyone can thrive; understanding the link between the work we do and its positive impact on society.
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Applications
To avoid disappointment, we would invite you to submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can continue to provide a positive candidate experience, with each application being reviewed and considered. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Current TPR employees who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.
We welcome applications on a part-time and job-share basis.
Selection and interview
If you are shortlisted for interview, we’ll be in contact with you shortly after the closing date. We aim to respond to every application; however, due to the large volume of applications, this is not always possible. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of submitting your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria will be offered an interview. Please note that if we receive a high volume of Disability Confident applicants, we reserve the right to offer an interview to those who best meet the essential criteria.
Diversity and inclusion
TPR is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion, and equality in the workplace, creating an environment where everyone is encouraged to be themselves, enabling our people to feel supported, represented, and do their best work.
We encourage applicants from all backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with TPR.
Further information
Please visit our website to find out what it is like to work at TPR, our culture, interview process, and our commitment to our employees.
If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk.
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