Economic Crime Supervision

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

- 308087**Salary**:

- £27,650 - £29,728- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

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

- Investigation**Working pattern**:

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

- 2Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- EdinburghAbout the job

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

FIS ensures that **HMRC **has an effective approach to tackling the most serious tax evasion and fraud. FIS is home to a wide range of people with a variety of skills and professional backgrounds - including accountants, criminal justice professionals, tax professionals 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.

**The Economic Crime (EC) **deputy directorate forms an integral part of the** HMRC Serious Fraud Strategy.** Working closely across the department and the wider Law Enforcement community, using specialist expertise and modern technology, we put illicit finance at the centre of operations. Our teams tackle the financial aspects of cases that will ultimately deter, disrupt and remove assets from tax fraudsters.

In the UK, the Money Laundering Regulations require certain businesses to take steps to prevent or reduce the risk of money laundering through their business.

The Regulations specify 27 bodies as supervisors of specific industry sectors covered by the Regulations. Along with the **Financial Conduct Authority,** HMRC is one of the Economic Crime supervisors in the UK.

**Economic Crime Supervision (ECS)** is a unique aspect of HMRC activity. It involves the regulatory supervision and enforcement of legislation designed to reduce the risks of money laundering and terrorist financing. This requires engagement with a unique set of customers, stakeholders and delivery partners.

HMRC currently have supervisory responsibility for; Money Service Businesses, Trust Company Service Providers, Accountancy Service Providers, High Value Dealers, Estate Agents, Bill Payment Service Providers, Art Dealers and Letting Agents

**Job description**:
The role is part of our Authorisation function. We work with a range of colleagues across ECS and wider HMRC to ‘risk’ our businesses both pre-registration and post registration.

As a caseworker, the post-holder will be expected to make considered decisions on applicant’s eligibility for registration and communicate these decisions to the applicants, and undertake a range of duties which will include some / all of the following;
- Maintain data held on the ECS Registration IT systems.
- Based on information and intelligence held, the post holder is responsible for deciding if customers and businesses meet the criteria to be placed on/remain on HMRC’s ECS Register within strict time constraints.
- Carry out checks on Responsible Persons holding a ‘Fit and Proper’ status as part of our developing retesting programme and relay decisions to the relevant applicants;
- Carry out checks on businesses who are undertaking regulated activity without being registered under the Regulations;

**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria;**

We are looking for staff who will uphold the Civil Service values and standards of behaviour and;
- Are flexible, adaptive and can effectively plan to manage tight deadlines.
- Can demonstrate sound interpersonal, communication and relationship-building skills and thrive working as part of a team as well as working autonomously.
- Resilient and prepared to deal with challenge and/or confrontation.
- Due to the sensitive nature of the work, security check (SC) level of security clearance is required. Applicants without this level of clearance must be willing to undergo the necessary level of vetting and secure relevant clearances. If the relevant security clearance is not obtained, you may be asked to return to your previous role/business area.

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

- Making Effective Decisions
- Delivering at Pace

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £27,650, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £7,465 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- Generous annual leave

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