HM Revenue & Customs
POCA Regulator
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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 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 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.
The Economic Crime (EC) deputy directorate brings together our Supervision, Proceeds of Crime Operations and Illicit Finance teams and 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 operational teams tackle the financial aspects of cases that will ultimately deter, disrupt, and remove assets from tax fraudsters to level the playing field for the honest majority. EC has several specialist teams who perform unique functions within HMRC, but which are common to other areas of the public sector.
This role is within the Capability, Assurance and People team sits at the heart of FIS EC within the Corporate Centre.
Job Description
Being a POCA Regulator includes duties delivering training as well as being a regulator.
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.
This is a national team, and the role can be carried out from any EC location.
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 to support the FI training pathway and other lines of business within CCG.
Key Duties Of This Post
- Registration, Monitoring and Training of HMRC financial investigators across the UK.
- Monitoring of CPD evidence and requirements. Monitoring includes preparing individual responses, action plans and formal suspension rationale. This may involve travelling to meet individuals and their supervisors/managers and conducting workplace assessments.
- Reviewing and assessing individual performance during training.
- Assessing PDP submissions to ensure they meet the required national standard as set by POCC NCA.
- Supporting the design, development and delivery 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. The role will involve occasional travel and overnight stays to deliver training.
- To create and deliver bespoke Illicit Financial training both within FIS and in other directorates as and when required.
- 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;
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Successful candidates will be expected to complete the HMRC Training for Learning Professionals (TLP) course and appropriate assessor 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.
The Ideal Candidate Will Have
- 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.
- Strong decision-making ability and the application of effective problem solving.
- The ability to work with the minimum of supervision and be highly motivated.
- Effective report writing skills.
- The ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders, and other Law Enforcement Agencies with the skills to build positive working relationships and establish strong networks.
- Successful candidates will be expected to take part in and successfully complete appropriate assessor training.
- The role will involve occasional travel and overnight stays to deliver training.
Essential Criteria:
The Successful Candidate Must
- Have either currently or previously completed Financial Investigation Restraint & Confiscation (R&C) training and PDP successfully and be accredited/registered with POCA 2002 Part2/4, and 8 powers or have the same powers voluntarily suspended in accordance with NCA POCC policy.
Powers must not have been suspended for more than the 36 months limit.
This will be checked against the Financial Investigation Support System (FISS) and if you do not have the required accreditation, your application will not be continued.
- Have the ability to demonstrate knowledge of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (as amended) and associated legislation.
Further Location Information
Please ensure that you only apply for a location that you are willing and able to work from, as we will only make one offer of employment. Any additional notes included in a 'Further Location Preferences (optional)' field within the application form, will not be considered. Please be aware that you cannot change your location preference after submitting your application.
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If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it's important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.
These Sites Are
- Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle
- Lynx House, Portsmouth - moving to an alternative office in Portsmouth
You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.
Leeds Locations
Moves Adjustment Payment will be available for this role, provided the successful applicant is a current HMRC colleague in Bradford and meets the eligibility requirements outlined in the HMRC's Moves Adjustment Payment guidance.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Developing Self and Others
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
Essential Criteria
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £37,682, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £10,916 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.
We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
- Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
- Family friendly policies.
- Personal support.
- Coaching and development.
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Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.
How To Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:
- A name-blind CV including your job history 100 words per role for the last 3 roles. and full qualification details 300 word limit.
- A 500-word Personal Statement. Your Personal Statement should be used to describe how your skills and experience would be suitable for the advertised role, making reference to the essential criteria and person specification outlined in the advert.
- Two separate 250-word statements on the Behaviours - Communicating and Influencing (Lead Behaviour) and Developing Self and Others.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form
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