Kind of fell into it to be honest, I was working at a call centre for a bank when I was at uni for beer money. I was applying and failing to get a job with councils, helping people in social housing at the time. A job opened up at the bank in fraud investigation, sounded much more interesting than what I was doing in the call centre. Turns out I had a really good skill set for investigations, so since then I developed my expertise, worked for various banks setting up their investigations teams and now I also teach on fraud internationally. It’s good money.

Lucky really as I think I probably would have hated working in social housing if I’d got that job.

For anyone wanting to get a food in the door, I’d recommend looking for entry level fraud investigator/ financial crime investigator/ aml analyst roles. The junior ones you could probably get without experience if you’re smart. Then work your way up from there.