Economic Crime Supervision

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

- 292242**Salary**:

- £39,111 - £42,057- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Higher 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**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- CroydonAbout 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, 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.

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.

**Job description**:

- Manage a caseload of Economic Crime Supervision (ECS) registered businesses to deliver business targets/Key Performance Indicators, at times co-ordinating on large projects/campaigns when reviewing larger businesses.
- Undertake interventions to potentially larger, more complex & higher risk ECS registered businesses primarily through face-to-face but also occasionally through desk-based interventions depending on the identified risks.
- Evaluate and test the credibility of a business, consider the degree of its compliance with the Money Laundering 2017 Regulations, maintaining a clear audit trail on all ECS systems. In addition, evaluate and test the credibility of policies & procedures statements, books and records or information obtained during interventions, ensuring that caseloads are processed within the required deadlines.
- Closing cases in a timely manner ensuring consideration of appropriate outcomes supported by robust evidential conclusions.
- Share information with ECS, HMRC and partner agencies through the dissemination of intelligence via legal gateways by submitting accurate and timely intelligence reports.
- Take ownership of the quality and accuracy of own work while sharing best practice with colleagues and ensuring work adheres to required Compliance professional standards.
- Working flexibly across teams and business sectors. (Some overnight stays may be required).
- Preparing cases for tribunal and working with other ECS decision making colleagues where cases are referred for criminal investigation.
- You may be asked to take act as a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for a specific sector to feed back information or act as a conduit at sector meetings.
- As an ECS Trainee, you will complete a Learning Routeway, this consists of 26 weeks of training specific to the role of an ECS Compliance Investigator.

**Person specification**:
**What we are looking for**:

- Can demonstrate sound interpersonal, communications and relationship
- building skills and thrive working as part of a team as well as working autonomously.
- Ability to work in line within guidelines, whilst having the confidence to exercise judgement and discretion within specified parameters and working to tight deadlines.
- Resilient and prepared to deal with challenge and/or confrontation.
- Are committed to continuous improvement, in an environment where performance matters.
- Are flexible, adaptive and creative in solving problems and dealing with change.
- Can effectively organise and plan, anticipating risks to prevent them becoming issues.
- Coordinating on large projects/campaigns when reviewing larger businesses.

**Essential criteria**:

- A curious mindset with good analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to assimilate information from multiple sources and effectively summarise and articulate facts.
- Good judgement, problem-solving & decision-making skills.
- Excellent written and verbal skills
- Due to the sensitive nature of the work, Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) 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.

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

- Delivering at Pace
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing