Intelligence Data Analyst

Application Deadline: 24 September 2025

Department: Product Innovation

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London, UK

Reporting To: Director of Intelligence

Compensation: £45,000 - £50,000 / year

Description

We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Data Analyst to join our Intelligence team. This role offers an opportunity to provide technical leadership and subject matter expertise in the transformation of complex data into actionable intelligence.

Working within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem, including Power BI, you will support data-driven decision-making that enables our members to detect and prevent fraud and financial crime. Your insights will play a key role in informing strategic initiatives and policy development aimed at mitigating the impact of fraudulent activity across the financial landscape.

Key Responsibilities

Working alongside industry specialists, the successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Leading on the design, development, and maintenance of analytical intelligence products and services using Power BI reports and dashboards integrated with Microsoft Fabric. Collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Establishing and then ensuring a regular flow of actionable data driven intelligence for Cifas members and other stakeholders, establishing Cifas as the go-to source of fraud related research and intelligence for external partners, such as law enforcement.
• Performing data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes using SQL and Fabric components.
• Leading on the development of strategy and process to enable the delivery of geospatial analysis and mapping in relation to core datasets (National Fraud Database and Intelligence Service Database) to support intelligence and strategic initiatives.
• Documenting analytical processes, methodologies, and findings for transparency and reproducibility.
• Supporting the development and quality assurance of data driven intelligence products and services to members and key partners by ensuring data accuracy and integrity through rigorous validation and testing.
• Staying updated with the latest features and best practices in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI.
• Supporting responses to intelligence requirements from external partners (e.g. NFIB, NCA) to help inform the intelligence picture of priority areas and maintain Cifas’ reputation as a leading organisation for fraud related intelligence.
• Supporting the delivery of annual assessments (such as the Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Fraudscape).

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• A degree level education or equivalent ideally in data science, computer science, information systems or related field and/or relevant previous work experience.
• Microsoft certifications related to Power BI or Microsoft Fabric. Experience of working with Fabric at an intermediate level is a pre-requisite for the role.
• Proven experience as a Data Analyst, with familiarity with data modelling techniques and best practices and a strong portfolio of Power BI projects.
• Proficiency in SQL for data manipulation and analysis.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric components, including Data Factory, Lakehouse, and Data Warehouse.
• Experience with GIS software and tools for mapping and geospatial analysis.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Python or R for data analysis is preferred.
• Ideally knowledge of data governance and security principles.
• Experience of working in intelligence analysis within a fraud or financial crime environment.
• Experience and knowledge of the fraud and financial crime landscape and the principles of fraud prevention and Data Protection legislation is this environment.
• High levels of diligence, excellent communication skills, the ability to collaborate whilst working autonomously or in a team.

Cifas are unable to offer visa sponsorship or work permits.

Benefits

In return for helping us take the fight to fraud, all our employees receive an impressive benefit package, which includes:

• Remote working with approximately 2 days a month in the London office.
• Generous annual leave allowance plus the bank holidays
• Private healthcare
• Excellent pension package through salary sacrifice
• Personal and professional growth
• Employee wellbeing services – Wellbeing hub access with resources to various online exercise content, meditation guides, sleep stories and yoga.

We have introduced agile ways of working, allowing teams to decide how best they work, while ensuring regular opportunities to collaborate and innovate. We create an environment to help you to unleash your potential and perform the most rewarding work of your career, whilst keeping your wellbeing at the foremost with initiatives in place to promote the wellness of our people.

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture and have dedicated inclusion champions across the business to celebrate and promote our uniqueness. We also have a dedicated team of volunteers looking for innovative ways to give back as part of our commitments under our Corporate Social Responsibility. We are delighted to be recognised in the 2021, 2022 and 2024 best companies to work for listings. We have also been awarded the Investors In People Gold accreditation.

If you are passionate about our purpose and would like an opportunity to make a valuable contribution to fraud prevention, we would like to hear from you.