Business Unit: Technology Operations & Cyber Security
Salary Range: £40,000 - circa £50,000 per annum DOE
Location: UK Remote - With occasional and infrequent travel to a hub. 

Don’t settle for dull. Live a life more Virgin.

Our Team
At Virgin Money Threat Intelligence, we deliver accurate and actionable analysis to help the bank prevent and respond to network defence, fraud, supplier and insider threats. We are in an exciting growth phase, with a mandate to build out our Cyber Fraud Fusion intelligence. This is a highly collaborative team on a mission to become an industry-leading intelligence function. The role is critical to our ability to defend customers from a wide range of fraud threats, with an opportunity to help build out a new capability that interoperates between our Cyber Security and Fraud Functions.   

What you’ll be doing

• Providing analysis and subject-matter expertise about the fraud threat environment, including but not limited to mobile malware, malicious domain impersonation, account takeover fraud, and Business Email Compromise  
• Maintaining Intelligence requirements and an Intelligence Collection Plan for data and intelligence about an array of threats to our customers
• Mapping criminal journeys to our Fraud Attack Chain/Mitigation Matrix, using structured thinking to help identify critical steps from initiation to execution of fraud
• Engaging with vendors and external/industry partners to share intelligence about threats to Virgin Money and the wider UK financial sector
• Delivering tactical and deep-dive assessments to an array of technical and executive stakeholders, with a focus on Fraud Strategy, Fraud Operations and Fraud Analytics

We need you to have

• Experience identifying fraud threats to customers – ideally in a financial institution, but relevant Government and/or corporate exposure is welcome
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, ensuring factual accuracy, attention to detail and readability for non-specialist stakeholders
• Experience working with intelligence platforms (e.g. Recorded Future, Biocatch, Intel471) and engaging in open-source and deep and darkweb research
• Great critical thinking skills, as demonstrated by your experience in understanding complex problem sets and prioritising threats
• Stakeholder engagement experience – joining up, collaborating and pushing for the greater good

It’s a bonus if you have but not essential

• Experience in Cyber Fraud Fusion, Threat Intelligence, Fraud Intelligence or a closely related field
• Familiarity of qualitative intelligence methodologies and structured analytical techniques
• Knowledge of data analytics, graph analytics or relational analysis as applied to the fraud threat environment

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​. 
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt. 
• Market-leading pension.
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness. 

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank.  As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we`re a workforce to be reckoned with.  We're putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people's lives. We're customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose, ‘Making You Happier About Money.’ Our customer centric culture means that we're able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.

Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities.  We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.  

As a Disability Confident Leader, we're committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion.  If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team careers@virginmoney.com

Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we'll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.

If you're successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years' worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks – we'll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you'll be subject to periodic employment checks.