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About the job
Benefits
Things you need to know
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Location
About the job
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.
See what it’s like to work at HMRC: find out more about us or ask our colleagues a question. Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.
The role of a Compliance Officer within Economic Crime Supervision (ECS) involves undertaking investigations involving businesses registered for supervision with HMRC.
This is a challenging role requiring flexibility in a fast-paced environment.
The successful candidate will be required to:
Essential criteria:
What we are looking for.
Applicants should write a 500-word statement of suitability demonstrating the following criteria:
We are looking for staff who will uphold the Civil Service values and standards of behaviour and who:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
Benefits
Find more about HMRC benefits in 'Your little extras and big benefits handbook' for further information or visit Thinking of joining the Civil Service.
Things you need to know
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide a CV, which should cover your career history (up to your last 3 job roles in 300 words) and your Qualifications (250 words). This is for information only and will not be scored.
You will also be asked to prepare a Personal Statement, outlining why you are the ideal candidate for the role. Please refer to the Person Specification section (500 words).
You will be asked to provide examples up to 250 words each, on the following two Behaviours:
In the event of a large number of applications, an initial sift may be completed against the lead behaviour - Delivering at Pace. If your application progresses to a full sift; the remaining Behaviour and your Personal Statement on your application will be assessed. We reserve the right to raise the pass mark, to manage the number of successful candidates to be interviewed.
Candidates successful at sift will be invited to the next stage, which will consist of a blended interview, where your Behaviours and Strengths will be assessed.
In the event of tied scores, the merit order will be determined on the overall score, then the scores of each strength in the order listed.
We reserve the right to raise the score required at any stage of the process in order to manage numbers.
Sift and interview dates and locations to be confirmed.
A reserve list may be held for a period of up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles – if this applies to you, we’ll let you know via your Civil Service Jobs account.
Eligibility
To check that you are eligible to apply, review this eligibility information
Important information for existing HMRC contractual homeworkers:
This role may be suitable for existing HMRC employees who are contractual homeworkers. Occasional attendance to the office will be required where there is a business need, so please review the advertised office locations for this role when applying and only select locations from the ‘location preferences’ section that you are able to travel to.
Reasonable Adjustments
We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process because of a disability, condition, or impairment. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate.
If you need a reasonable adjustment or a change to be made so that you can make your application, review this information on reasonable adjustments, and contact hmrcrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible.
Equality and Diversity
We’re committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues here at HMRC. We want everyone to feel valued, supported and comfortable being their true self at work.
We’re proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer, supporting social mobility by giving opportunities to people from all walks of life. We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us and offer a range of flexible working patterns and support. Our aim is to make a fulfilling career at HMRC accessible to you.
For more information on how we make this happen, review this information on our culture and values.
Applications received from candidates with a criminal record are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.
We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible after considering operational and customer service needs. We can’t guarantee that we can meet all requests to work flexibly, as agreement will be subject to business ability to accommodate, and any request to work a more flexible arrangement should be made prior to your acceptance of the provisional offer.
Customer facing roles in HMRC require the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English and/or Welsh where required. Where this is an essential requirement, this will be tested as part of the selection process.
The Civil Service runs a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Locations
HMRC has a presence in every region of the UK. For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.
Security Update
For more information on the level of security checks we will carry out, review this information on security checks
Please note: in addition to the standard pre-employment checks for appointment into the Civil Service, all candidates must also obtain National Security Vetting at Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) clearance level for this vacancy. You will normally need to meet the minimum UK residency period as determined by the level of vetting being undertaken, which for CTC is 3 years UK residency prior to your vetting application. If you have any questions about this residency requirement, please speak to the vacancy holder for this post.
Please be aware the levels of national security clearance are changing which may impact on the level needed for this role by the time of appointment. All efforts will be made to keep candidates informed of any changes and what that will mean in terms of vetting criteria. For more information please See our vetting charter
Further Information
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences.
Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant application/s will be withdrawn from the process.
Duplicate applications for the same vacancy will also be withdrawn.
Transferring into HMRC from Civil Service If you are currently working for an ‘Other Government Department’ (OGD) and would like to consider the impact on your pay when joining HMRC, please see the attached document "Combined T&C and OGD Pay English”, found at the bottom of this advert. Further information on staff transfers can be found on gov.uk
Problems during the application process
If you experience accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
If you think you’ve made a mistake on a submitted application (e.g. you’ve ticked the incorrect eligibility box), please contact hmrcrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk at least two working days before the vacancy closes. After this, we won’t be able to reopen your application.
Please use the subject line to insert appropriate wording e.g. Please re-open my application - 292849 & vacancy closing date 04/07/2023.
For reasonable adjustments queries or requests, please see details within reasonable adjustments section above.
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
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