Counter Fraud Investigation Officer

3 months ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom HM Revenue and Customs Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 297930**Salary**:

- £27,650 - £34,372- London £31982 - £34372. National £27650 - £28918.**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HMRC - CCG - Fraud Investigation Service**Type of role**:

- Investigation**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 100Contents

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Location
- Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Dover, Gartcosh, Ipswich, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Portsmouth, StratfordAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**About HMRC**:
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is one of the UK’s largest organisations, with around 60,000 employees, collecting over £605 billion in tax revenue. We are an effective, efficient and impartial tax and payments authority with a vital purpose: to collect the money that pays for the UK’s public services and help families and individuals with targeted financial support.

**About Fraud Investigation Service**:
HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service (FIS) is responsible for the department’s civil and criminal investigations.

FIS provides HMRC with an effective investigation arm to enforce the Department’s compliance policies. This enables the Department to deliver against the strategic responsibilities across all the taxes and duties it administers. This includes complex offshore evasion, international smuggling of illicit excise goods, exports of controlled weapons and technology, labour market abuses, VAT and Self-Assessment repayment frauds and a host of other fraud attacks targeted at the tax system.

FIS is home to a wide range of people with a variety of skills and professional backgrounds - including accountants, cybercrime specialists, criminal justice professionals, tax professionals and operational delivery support teams to name but a few. We use a range of powers and approaches to protect funding for UK public services, investigating the most harmful tax cheats and ensuring nobody is beyond our reach.

These roles are for Counter Fraud Investigators - Criminal within our different FIS business areas, Organised Crime, Offshore Corporate and Wealthy, Individuals and Business, Economic Crime and Internal Investigations.

**Job description**:
**The Role**

You will be asked to undertake any aspect of criminal investigation work for which HMRC has responsibility. You will;
- Use powers granted to HMRC under a range of legislation to investigate and gather evidence to build, progress and enhance criminal and financial tax investigations.
- Develop knowledge of relevant legislation and regulations.
- Use own judgement to assess evidence.
- Utilise forensic evidence and understand how and when to use forensic services.
- Identify, classify and handle information connected to an investigation and ensure legal obligations are discharged effectively.
- Undertake arrests, conduct search of person and interview under caution, diffusing potentially confrontational situations.
- Take witness statements from a variety of people, both internal and external.
- Conduct briefing and de-briefing activities to identify improvements and best practice, sharing that knowledge appropriately.
- Attend court to give evidence in criminal prosecutions and / or financial recovery hearings.
- Interact and collaborate with a wide range of internal and external people including other parts of HMRC, the Police, Border Force, National Crime Agency, Solicitors, Crown Prosecutors and colleagues from Other Government Departments.

**Person specification**:

- Inquisitive, open-minded and objective, with strong IT and analytical skills, together with attention to detail.
- Committed, conscientious and organised even when completing multiple tasks.
- Courageous, resilient, and dedicated, prepared to deal with challenge and/or confrontation.
- Good judgement, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Ability to work in line with legal frameworks and policy guidelines, whilst having the confidence to exercise judgement and discretion within specified parameters.
- Collaborative, working with others to achieve common goals and an appreciation of different styles of working to ensure mutual respect.
- Work with integrity, impartiality, and excellence.
- Take accountability for decisions made and for maintaining own knowledge and skills.
- Confident communicator with good verbal and written skills
- A UK driving licence is highly desirable.
- This role can, at times be physically demanding and applicants are required to have an appropriate level of fitness in order to obtain an occupational health fitness certificate and pass officer safety training (OST) which is a compulsory element of the role.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together

**Benefits**:

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