Job summary
Are you inquisitive and love problem-solving?
Would you like to pursue a career in intelligence with a focus on finance?
If so, we would love for you to join us at the Intelligence Development Team in Bristol.
As a Financial Intelligence Officer, you’ll be joining one of the most exciting roles in Government and Law Enforcement, so we’re looking for dynamic and enthusiastic individuals who have a passion for this interesting and varied work.
This role requires keen attention to detail, and will draw on your tenacity, resilience, and flexibility. You’ll need to exercise sound judgement and discretion, along with the ability to understand and apply legislation, policy, and procedure.
If you have an open and enquiring mind, love problem-solving and decision-making, based on rules, precedent, and in-depth analysis; if you can thrive in a high-pressure environment, adapting to changing priorities and demands, we encourage you to apply.
This could be the role you have been looking for!
Job description
You will be joining the Intelligence Development team, which is part of the Law Enforcement arm of HMRC. We pursue criminals, fraudsters and smugglers who attack the UK Exchequer, and build intelligence packages for civil interventions. We also work with our civil colleagues to use all the tools at HMRC’s disposal to prevent and detect serious organised crime.
We develop intelligence for serious civil cases for intervention partners, mainly in Fraud Investigation Service (FIS) with a focus on dismantling, disrupting and prosecuting individuals and Organised Crime Groups who criminally attack on our tax systems.
You’ll be joining our Bristol team of around 20 colleagues.
The role necessitates the building of strong relationships with our varied stakeholders to maximise the benefits to HMRC.
It will involve dealing with enquiries from internal and external teams in relation to financial work undertaken. You will use your analytical skills to exploit intelligence received from a variety of sources.
This will involve analysing data and intelligence particularly those of a financial nature, and ensuring all risks are considered before development for our operational partners.
You can look forward to receiving our highly regarded training programme, the support of a mentor, job shadowing, and excellent potential for career progression.
We anticipate the successful candidate starting in post around October or November 2024.
Mandatory Training
Undertake and pass a training programme of up to 12 months. This will be a combination of online and on-the-job training and will commence from your start date.
Financial Intelligence officer training which is accredited by the National Crime Agency (NCA). This course is approximately 6 months and is a mixture of online training with on-the-job consolidation, documenting how financial powers will be used in the work environment. You will not be able to continue in this role if the course is not fully completed and pass rate achieved. However we will help you find an alternative Officer role within HMRC within the priority movers process.
Intelligence Foundation Course - Accreditation as a Counter Fraud Intelligence Technician. This interactive online course is approximately 4 weeks and involves group exercises where you will make practical application of the knowledge, intelligence techniques, and skills learnt.
On successful completion of your training you will be an accredited Financial Intelligence Officer.
Key responsibilities will include:
• Reviewing and analysing incoming intelligence from internal and external sources to establish HMRC risks and offences.
• Developing intelligence, and associated HMRC information, to create Intelligence Packages for our operational partners within investigation to take forward for HMRC civil interventions and operations.
• Processing incoming Defence Against Money Laundering (DAML) requests from National Crime Agency (NCA) deconflicting against HMRC held data. Liaise with internal and external colleagues to establish if any action can be taken using Proceeds of Crime Act 2022 (POCA) legislation and other powers.
• Using and maintaining internal and external databases and mailboxes.
Person specification
The ideal candidate will have:
• Excellent verbal and communication skills.
• Good awareness/usage of using Microsoft 365, such as Microsoft Teams, Excel, Word, SharePoint, and Outlook.
• Good team working skills and be able to adopt a flexible approach to help achieve business results.
• Experience of using, analysing, and interpreting information.
• Experience in managing multiple tasks.
• Experience of collaborating with customers.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £28,341, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £6,772 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
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 27% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development