Fraud Professional

Our established Fraud Risk Services team have a number ofvacancies within our London/South team. Our ideal candidate is someone that hasa real interest in fraud prevention, either through investigating it, orassisting our clients to identify gaps in their controls and remedy these orassist in training their staff to recognise and prevent fraud.

About the company and department

RSM’s Fraud Risk Services teamprovide a range of counter fraud services to public and private sector clients.Many of our clients are NHS bodies, who are required by the NHS Counter FraudAuthority (CFA) to report annually against CFA requirements. Our NHS clientscontract us for anything from 15 to 150 days per year to provide a fullproactive (preventative) service. In addition to this our staff are accreditedto undertake criminal investigations where our NHS clients are the victim offraud.

Our Proactive work entails:

• Undertaking Fraud Risk Assessments – working with senior managers to understand the controls in place to mitigate fraud, testing the effectiveness of these, highlighting any missing/ineffective controls, and scoring the residual risk.
• Policy review – reviewing clients policies where fraud may exist, and ensuring that suitable controls are listed to allow disciplinary action to be taken where fraud is found.
• Liaison with senior staff – reporting directly to the Director of Finance or Chief Financial Officer to keep them apprised of all fraud prevention work, current risk levels, and progress against our agreed plan. Producing and presenting annual workplans, progress reports and annual reports to the Audit Committee.
• Delivering training – preparing and presenting informative, engaging, training sessions to our clients staff. This could be 100 new starters at induction or smaller, more in-depth presentations to finance, HR or procurement staff, or updates or Bribery Act training to the Board.
• Undertaking proactive exercises – similarly to an internal audit we deep-dive in to areas of identified fraud risk to review and test the controls in place, and identify whether any fraud is present.
• Receipt of fraud referrals – receiving complaints from general staff, managers or HR relating to fraud, bribery or corruption. Working closely with the organisations Freedom to Speak up Guardian to ensure clear reporting lines for concerns.

Our Reactive work entails:

• Receiving fraud referrals, identifying; an estimated loss/gain, key lines of enquiry, and proportionality to investigate.
• Submitting DPA requests for evidence.
• Liaising with witnesses to gather evidence/exhibits, taking witness statements.
• Undertaking interviews under caution.
• Preparing case papers for the CPS.
• Recognising when criminal sanctions may not be proportionate/appropriate and recommending internal/ regulatory action.
• Making recommendations to prevent reoccurrence. Working with NSH CFA Financial Investigators to make financial enquiries and gain evidence.

In addition to our NHS clientswe work with a number of housing associations, charities, governmentdepartments and ALB’s, universities, further education colleges and academies,and UN bodies. For these organisations we may be asked to undertake any of thetasks listed above, or undertake fact-finding, disciplinary or grievanceinvestigations in to fraud, or theft, bullying harassments, sexual harassment,conflict of interest or any other matter for which our staff have experience.

Some of these assignments mayinvolve an element of overseas travel, although this is not compulsory.

About the job

Our teams are divided in to proactive or reactiveas defined by the tasks above, although there is always an element of overlap.You may be required to undertaken any of the tasks above, within yourskill-set, and will be provided training and guidance in the other areas. Yourfocus will always be on protecting our clients from the risk of fraud, andprevent future fraud rather than simply sanctioning offenders.

We are a looking for staff at both entry (red) andexperienced (blue) levels, grades inproactive roles, and in blue roles in reactive roles.

As a red you will support more experienced staffby completing the individual tasks. You will be liaising with our clientsstaff, undertaking testing, devising training sessions, and undertakingenquiries. You will be pulling your findings in to a detailed report. All of yourwork will be reviewed by more senior staff before being issued.

As a blue you will already have experience indelivering some of the tasks above, and will be confident in speaking with ourclients independently. You may be giving specific clients for which you will beresponsible. This will involve planning and overseeing all work conducted forthem, and liaising with their staff at all levels.

As a blue in our reactive team you will beexperienced in undertaking investigations independently, you will be able toassess whether a referral justifies a full investigation, set your own lines ofenquiry and undertake these autonomously. You will be able to take witnessstatements and conduct interviews of both witnesses and suspects. Ideally youwill have previous experience in presenting criminal prosecutions in bothmagistrates and the crown court.

About the ideal candidate

Ourfocus is on quality, so you need to be able to produce a high quality reportthat adds value. Your should have a high level of attention to detail and bewilling to work hard to meet deadlines and financial targets. Our clients payfor the time taken to produce the work, so you need to produce high qualityresults efficiently.

Youwill get the opportunity to work across a number of different interestingorganisations and make a real difference to them.

Requirements

Essential

• Be able to pass enhanced security vetting (NPPV + SC – Non-Police Personnel Vetting and Security Clearance).
• Be able to pass DBS clearance.
• Possess a full UK driving licence with access to a vehicle.
• Excellent verbal communicator, with an ability to articulate complex, sensitive and confidential information to staff, clients and other stakeholders.
• Excellent written communication skills, with an ability to construct high quality reports which may be presented to a varying degree of audiences.
• Strong ability to organise a varied workload, plan and manage own workloads and calendar, ensuring high quality client service is at the forefront of priorities.
• An ability to work unsupervised, use initiative and strive to exceed client’s expectations.

Desirable

• Possess the Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist (ACFS) qualification.
• Fraud or risk related academic qualification.
• Criminal investigations experience (for reactive roles).
• Internal Audit experience/knowledge of controls and risk mitigation (for senior consultant proactive roles).

If you do not already hold the ACFS qualification  training will be provided to secure this, as itis mandatory for all individuals conducting counter fraud work in the NHS.