Intelligence Officer - Cryptoasset Specialist
| Posting date: | 25 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £48,429 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £48,429 to £52,222 (National) £51,661 to £54,686 (London - available only for Internal candidates). Candidates are advised to address any questions on rates of pay prior to applying for the post. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 March 2026 |
| Location: | Cardiff |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 449515/2 |
Summary
Investigation and Enforcement Services (IES) directorate aims to deliver and promote a range of investigation and enforcement activities, both civil and criminal in nature, to support fair and open markets. We do this by effectively enforcing the statutory company and insolvency regimes, maintaining public confidence in those regimes, and reducing the harm caused to victims of fraudulent activity and to the business community.
Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive, and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives. We have 9 active employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include, Carers Network, Disability network group, Employee Assistance, Representatives, FACES Network Group, LGBT+, Mind Matters, Part Time Workers, The Shed - Men’s Network Group and Women’s Network Group.
We offer full-time, part-time, job share and flexible ways of working. We value capability, technical skills and experience and we place great emphasis on lifetime development to support our people. We encourage our employees to become more involved in areas they feel strongly about, whether it be for the benefit of the agency, though our Engagement network or in their own local communities via volunteering opportunities.
The Insolvency Service is a great place to work, learn and grow your career!
The Intelligence team is a part of IES, and it provides support to both civil and criminal investigation teams, to the wider agency and a wide range of external partners.
This post sits within the anti money laundering cell of the Intelligence team.
The post holder will be at the heart of cryptoasset intelligence collection, development and dissemination within the Insolvency Service.
The successful post holder will have line management responsibility within the Intelligence Team.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will:
- either bring or develop specialist expertise and play a critical role in shaping and implementing the agency’s priorities regarding cryptoasset investigations and intelligence
- lead in the development of agency policy regarding the investigation, seizure, secure storage, forfeiture and realisation of cryptoassets and other similar products and in the procurement and deployment of relevant technologies
- proactively collaborate with our intelligence analysts to oversee the development of our first agency wide crypto threat assessment
- drive continuous improvement across the agency in relation to cryptoassets decentralised finance and related technologies
- represent the agency externally in meetings and conferences with other UK law enforcement and regulatory partners, private sector stakeholders and academics
- lead where required on high impact projects including but not limited to supporting investigations involving national and international law enforcement partners supporting major international cases. These invariably involve cross jurisdictional enforcement actions, including providing intelligence and coordinating asset freezing and recovery.
The postholder may have management responsibility for up to 4 staff.
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