Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities

The IBM Legal department and other internal business leaders rely on sound fact-based information to make decisions pertaining to crimes and other illegal activities affecting IBM, joint investigations with external investigative bodies, and other contentious matters. Investigations professionals are trained in the rules of evidence, investigative techniques, and relevant laws to perform as ’fact finder’ and investigations liaison for IBM.

Plans, coordinates, and conducts investigations of alleged and suspected violations of law including theft, fraud, computer crimes, and workplace violence. Procures information to assist senior leaders in understanding IBM’s exposures in all matters under investigation.

Serve as subject matter experts on investigative strategies, and provides advice and counsel to the business about appropriate approaches for individual engagements. Employs interview techniques to question internal and external individuals about facts pertaining to matters under investigation. An established relationship with law enforcement and other investigative bodies enables the Investigations team to act as liaison to all external investigators.

Where appropriate manage relations with other investigative bodies within IBM as well as working closely with the internal intelligence and insider risk functions. Is able to work with all different units and, where necessary, provide leadership. An investigator always works as part of the global team.

Investigators manage complex investigations as projects, engaging all relevant stakeholders and leading the investigation to conclusion. This involves compiling complex facts into digestible reports for internal, executive, and external consumption, and analyzing past engagements for continuous improvement, and giving testimony before judicial and legislative bodies in legal proceedings pertaining to relevant investigations. Additionally the investigator conducts a root-cause-analysis to identify underlying issues that resulted in an incident or enabled policy violations, and articulate and supervise the implementation of improvements to IBM’s control posture. Also responsible for the evaluation of new investigative aids and techniques, and for advising the business on the appropriateness of employing new approaches within IBM. Information collected and maintained may be subject to legal, regulatory, or corporate policies; practitioners must be aware of all relevant provisions and maintain information accordingly.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience as a Law Enforcement Senior Criminal Investigator is a prerequisite for this work

• Readiness to travel up to 20% travel annually

• Professional Criminal Police accredited interviewing skills and interrogation techniques are required

• Must be able to relate and present cases, to appropriate external authorities including Law Enforcement officials in any EMEA country

• Good IT skills across Microsoft™and Apple™operating systems, including standard Office tools such as Word, Excel etc. Demonstrate innovative and creative thinking as well as problem-solving skills.

• Demonstration of a continuing ability to self-teach

• Ability to take end-to-end ownership of engagements

• Attention to detail and structured mindset to manage information logically

• Strong team player comfortable in joining a small distributed team but with the ability to work independently

• Generally a strong affinity with Information Technology, specifically understanding of the cybercrime environment

• Good understanding of the current cyber-crime environment

• Fluent in following languages: English

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Experience in the hands-on review and analysis of potentially large volumes digital data

• Experience in the use of analytical tools, e.g., Maltego , i2 Analyst Notebook or other (opensource) tools, to analyse and present data

• Experience in working in a multi-national company

• Home office work environment is preferred

• Lead / manage inter-disciplinary teams as part of investigations and projects

• Languages: French, Spanish, Russian, Arab

IBM Corporate Headquarters (CHQ) team represents a variety of functions such as marketing, finance, legal, operations, HR, and more, all working together to solve some of the world’s most complex problems, help our clients achieve success and build collaborative work environments for IBMers.

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

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