Counter Fraud

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

- 324278**Salary**:

- £40,808**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DFT - Corporate Delivery Group (CDG) - Group Finance**Type of role**:

- Risk Management**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Birmingham, LeedsAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Have you got excellent attention to detail and strong communication, collaborating and partnering skills? Do you have a keen interest in counter fraud?

Would you like the opportunity to work with various teams across the Department for Transport (DfT) and the wider DfT Group, engaging with other government departments to support counter fraud and risk management activity?

If so, we'd love to hear from you

**Job description**:
The post holder will support both the DfT Counter Fraud manager and Head of Financial Control and Counter Fraud. You will work directly with key stakeholders and senior counter fraud leads across DfT Group to prevent and mitigate fraud risk in high-risk areas. You will be working on the Department and government’s priority areas, with some Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA) involvement.

Duties include, but are not limited to:
**Fraud risk assessment and management**
- Coordinate and support the identification of high-risk areas of fraud producing reliable, accredited fraud risk assessments that ensure fraud, bribery and corruption risks are recorded and managed effectively in line with government counter fraud risk assessment standards.
- Seek to embed effective mitigations to weaknesses in controls, providing recommendations on the most effective counter measures using your understanding of government risk management frameworks, policies, and best practice from across the public sector, and working closely with the Financial Control and Assurance Manager.
- Build capability and increase the Department’s knowledge on the importance of fraud risk assessment by preparing and carrying out tailored training sessions and providing expert advice on fraud risk assessments and Initial Fraud Impact Assessments (IFIAs).

**Counter fraud culture and awareness**
- Proactively plan and deliver fraud awareness campaigns to develop a culture that promotes and values fraud prevention and views finding fraud as a positive achievement.

**Proactive prevention and detection**
- Supporting and championing proactive fraud and error detection activity and driving improvements and compliance in counter fraud functional standards, assisting in meeting any necessary external reporting obligations.

Please see attached **Role Profile** for a complete list of duties and responsibilities.

**Person specification**:
You will be a self-starter who enjoys working alongside and engaging with a range of stakeholders and can quickly build rapport and maintain effective working relationships. The role requires an ability to be proactive, highly organised with strong communication skills in both written and spoken mediums and you should be comfortable in developing relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

You will have confidence in your ability to come in and make a real impact within our team where you will drive those around you to achieve the same shared objectives. You will have excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple and often conflicting priorities to time and of a high standard.

This is a demanding role, and you must be able to deliver at pace.

**Additional Information**

A minimum of 40% of your working time should be spent at your principal workplace, although requirements to attend other locations for official business, or carry out detached duty in another DfT workplace, will also count towards this level of attendance.

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

- Working Together
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace

**Benefits**:
Being part of our brilliant Civil Service means you will have access to a wide range of fantastic benefits.

This includes:

- a generous annual leave entitlement
- attractive pension options with an average employer contribution of 27%
- flexible working
- good career development opportunities
- a variety of career paths
- inclusive working environments and much more to support a healthy work/life balance.

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.**How to Apply**
- Significant experience of working in a counter fraud risk management environment or be a qualified counter fraud risk professional or auditor.
- Recent working experience in undertaking accredited fraud risk