Ho Poca Regulator

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

- 291621**Salary**:

- £34,404 - £36,985- 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 - Economic Crime Operations**Type of role**:

- Investigation**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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- Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Dover, Gartcosh, Ipswich, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NottinghamAbout 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. Economic Crime collaborate across various businesses and government departments to reduce the impact of serious fraud on the UK’s tax system, recover the proceeds of fiscal crime and protect the UK against the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing.

POCA Regulators and Trainers oversee the training, registration, and monitoring of HMRC financial investigators across the UK. Working in partnership with the Counter Fraud Academy (CFA) and Proceeds of Crime Centre (POCC) at the National Crime Agency (NCA) they ensure that the training, assessment, and monitoring of financial investigators within HMRC is in line with agreed national standards for law enforcement agencies.

**Job description**:
This post is for a Proceeds of Crime Regulator & Trainer who will also support HMRC’s Counter Fraud Academy (CFA) Economic Crime portfolio holder with the ongoing development and delivery of financial investigation training.

Key duties of this post:

- Registration, Monitoring and Training of HMRC financial investigators across the UK.
- Monitoring includes preparing individual responses, action plans and formal suspension rationale, as well as travelling to meet individuals and their supervisors/managers and conducting workplace assessments.
- Reviewing evidence submitted during training and assessing the evidence, continual reviewing of CPD evidence submitted ensuring individuals’ compliance with the legislative obligations.
- Supporting the designing, developing and delivering of training events, in financial investigation and asset recovery in partnership with HMRC Counter Fraud Academy and Proceeds of Crime Centre (POCC). Training to be delivered in either a face to face or digital classroom environment.
- Working in partnership with the Proceeds of Crime Centre (POCC) regulators at the National Crime Agency (NCA) to ensure that assessment and monitoring of financial investigators within HMRC is in line with agreed national standards for law enforcement authorities.
- Maintaining own current competence, knowledge and understanding in financial investigation legislation, case law, training, procedures, guidelines, best practice and criminal typologies; and the appropriate delivery of training products, tutoring, assessing, accreditation and monitoring.
- The role will involve occasional travel and overnight stays to deliver training.

**Person specification**:
There is no typical day in this role. Responsibilities can vary between:

- Supporting HMRC’s Counter Fraud Academy in the design and preparation of training material.
- Delivery of financial investigator training and other financial related training as required.
- Setting or checking and advising on Action Plans, PDP’s and CPD’s.
- Liaising and interacting with POCC on behalf of HMRC.
- Disseminating best practice, policy and case law changes advised to HMRC FI’s.
- Networking with financial staff/managers located in Fraud Investigation Service (FIS) and Risk and Intelligence Service (RIS).
- Building and maintaining good relationships with key stakeholders: CFA and POCC.
- High levels of interpersonal skills, demonstrating the ability to explain issues in a concise and straightforward way to a wide range of audiences.
- Planning and organisational skills.
- The ability to work with the minimum of supervision and be highly motivated.
- Effective report writing skills.
- The ability to wo