Digital Forensic Compliance Lead

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

- 422658

**Salary**:

- £63,397 - £70,422
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Grade 7

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- HMRC - CCG - Fraud Investigation Service

**Type of role**:

- Other

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- Stratford

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
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**About Fraud Investigation Service**

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 teams to name 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 none are beyond our reach. We target a variety of threats, including complex offshore evasion, international smuggling of illicit excise goods, exports of controlled weapons and technology, labour market abuses, money laundering, VAT and Self-Assessment repayment frauds and a host of other fraudulent attacks.

Within FIS, we have the Covert Operations, Digital Exploitation (CODE) team. They work across Law Enforcement and government providing investigative tools and covert techniques to front-line investigations. CODE works with key partners to develop and provide access to new technology and systems, enabling investigators to respond to serious and complex tax evasion and crime.
- The Forensic Services Senior Leadership Team (SLT) currently consists of 5 roles:

- Head of Forensics
- Digital Forensic Operational Lead
- Research and Technical Management Lead
- Business and Quality Assurance Lead
- People Management Lead

**Job description**:
This post sits within the CODE Deputy Directorate of Fraud Investigation Service (FIS) reporting to the Head of Forensic Services. There is an expectation that the post-holder will play an important role in developing and upskilling talent within FIS and help educate case teams. They will also be expected to handle complaints and provide reporting to Senior Civil Service colleagues across FIS and RIS.

**Training**:
Depending on existing experience, you will be expected to undertake forensic based training, ranging from in-house training to external courses.

**Please note**: Security Check (SC) clearance level, either already held or willing to obtain, is a requirement of this role. Please see Additional Security Information and Security sections below.

**Person specification**:
**Key Responsibilities**
- Act as a Lead Forensic case advisor to all staff within C&FS, making decisions on how to proceed with the case handling, and handling new types of high impact cases, including support to FIS Civil teams where appropriate and undertaking the large and complex criminal investigation cases.
- Play an active role in shaping the future direction of C&FS, working closely with Law Enforcement partners and introducing new approaches and techniques alongside other members of the C&FS SLT.
- Ensure compliance of digital forensic casework and case handling in line with our documented policies and procedures and helping safeguard against error.
- Have a technical overview of how digital forensics is done and you will work with the Operational Lead and the Research & Technical Management Lead of C&FS by contributing to improving overall working practices across all sites.
- Mentor & coach colleagues, looking at practitioners’ skillsets and casework to identify where there is a requirement for further development and where trends in knowledge gaps exist.
- Have responsibility for identifying training needs and assist in the enabling of forensic competency across the team in line with the FSR CoP.
- Maintain an advanced forensics skillset in both mobile and computer-based technologies, whilst working alongside other members of Senior Leadership Team to continue to create, inspire and nurture a culture of innovation and 'fail safe' environments.
- Act as an ambassador for HMRC digital forensics in the forensic community, along with other members of Senior Leadership Team engaging with Digital Forensics at conferences and forums on a regular basis and looking at how others are performing the same