This is advanced securities investigation work. Work involves responsibility for investigating business entities or individuals and conducting field audits to ascertain facts and to gather evidence pertaining to allegations of illegal financial dealings or material non-compliance with federal and state securities laws, rules and regulations. Trains less experienced investigators and may act as a lead worker.
Work also involves executing warrants, making arrests and testifying in court.
Employees at this level usually receive a general outline of the work to be performed and are generally free to develop their own sequences and methods within the scope of established policies. New, unusual, or complex work situations are almost always referred to a superior for advice. Work is periodically checked for progress and conformance to established policies and requirements. The type of position which requires the exercise of unusual managerial, administrative, or scientific skill often involving several unrelated activities, frequent decisions, meeting of deadlines, negotiations with other high level functionaries, and planning, organizing, developing and coordinating large scale work projects requiring an unusual amount of concentration and analytic ability or unusually difficult engineering or scientific research or development or both. Work is of a diversified nature that usually involves multiple, unrelated steps.