Senior Data and Crime Analyst

The Senior Data and Crime Analyst leads a team of data and crime analysts, reporting directly to the Team Leader. They are responsible for training and managing the team, ensuring they effectively fulfil their roles. The primary purpose of the Senior Crime and Data Analyst role is to support and drive the prevention and detection of crime while mitigating business risk. This is achieved through incident management, incident analysis, gap identification, and enhancement of information to support investigations, prosecutions, and intelligence-driven operations. The Senior Crime and Data Analyst oversees the analysis and interpretation of data to provide insights into developing structures and processes for proactively detecting and reducing crime across the business. Moreover, they analyse data and intelligence to plan the deployment of resources for the prevention of criminal activities. By leveraging their teams analytical capabilities, the Senior Data and Crime Analyst contributes significantly to enhancing the organizations security measures and safeguarding against potential threats.

• Lead a team of data and crime analysts, providing guidance, training, and management.
• Report directly to the Team Leader, ensuring effective communication and alignment with organisational goals.
• Identify and interpret criminal incidents, patterns, and trends.
• Forecast trends to aid in the prevention of criminal incidents.
• Collect, review, evaluate and summarise data from multiple sources, databases and CiiMS.
• Produce crime analysis products (analytical, intelligence, court documents, link reports etc.) to

• Proactively conduct analysis on all available and relevant sources of data for patterns, hotspots, modus operandi, case linkages, suspect and vehicle identification and profiling, trends and/or anomalies that may be of value and that contributes towards improving operational effectiveness.
• Analyse incident reports to determine patterns and trends in criminal activity.
• Capture incidents on the centralised database (CiiMS).
• Conduct quality assurance on all data, information and intelligence captured on CiiMS, and documents produced by the team to ensure application, analysis, and reputational integrity.
• Conduct database clean-ups to ensure effective and efficient use thereof.
• Testify in court regarding analysis performed and findings as part of an investigation.
• Write comprehensive reports and prepare presentations for management and stakeholders, highlighting clear trends and making suitable recommendations.
• Train service providers and internal resources where and if necessary.
• Provide support on CiiMS and other professional activities within the department as required.
• Build and maintain sound working relationships with internal employees, service providers and any other relevant role-players, establishing and maintaining effective and open lines of communication.

Degree in Criminology, Forensics, Risk Management, or a related field - (essential).

Post Graduate Degree in the above or related fields - (desired).

• +5 years experience in a similar role with demonstrable experience and practical knowledge analysing, investigating, producing, and reporting comprehensive data and insights on crime and risk behaviour, processes, and statistics - (essential)
• Moderate to advanced experience with CiiMS - (essential).
• Experience using data analysis software including crime mapping systems - (essential).
• Experience in overseeing tasks and allocating resources. Ability to set clear objectives, delegate tasks, and monitor team performance to ensure successful outcomes - (desired).
• Research capability along with sound knowledge of statistical methodologies - (essential).

• Experience in a retail environment - (desired).

• Knowledge of criminal procedures and related legislation - (essential).
• Strong proficiency in MS Office 365 - (essential).