Criminal Investigator - Strategic Exports and Sanctions Enforcement

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About HMRC

HMRC is one of the UKs largest organisations, with around 60,000 employees, collecting over 605 billion in tax revenue. We are an effective, efficient, and impartial tax and payments authority with a vital purpose: to collect the money that pays for the UKs public services and help families and individuals with targeted financial support.

About Fraud Investigation Service

HMRCs Fraud Investigation Service (FIS) is responsible for the Departments civil and criminal investigations.

FIS provides HMRC with an effective investigation arm to enforce the Departments compliance policies. This enables the Department to deliver against the strategic responsibilities across all the taxes and duties it administers. This includes complex offshore evasion, international smuggling of illicit excise goods, exports of controlled weapons and technology, labour market abuses, VAT and Self-Assessment repayment frauds and a host of other fraud attacks targeted at the tax system.

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 support 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 nobody is beyond our reach.

This is a Band HO role eligible for a Flexibility Payment (FP) at Level 2, worth 14,400 p.a. (National) and 15,300 p.a. (London), paid in addition to basic salary. In return, youll work your hours flexibly (including out-of-hours, at weekends and on public holidays) and change your work pattern at short notice. Youll also undertake periods of on-call and work additional hours. Payment of FP is dependent on successful completion of training you can find more detail about this and other FP requirements in the document attached.

FIS fulfils the principal export control enforcement function on behalf of the Department for International Trade, the UK Export Licensing Authority.

This role is on the team responsible for export licensing control enforcement and counter proliferation (CP) activity. The teams job is to detect breaches of UK export controls and other counter proliferation (CP) legislation (including trade sanctions) and take appropriate enforcement action to promote compliance within the UK exporter community. This will include disrupting illicit attempts to procure strategic goods from the UK and where appropriate reporting cases to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for consideration of criminal proceedings.

As a Criminal Investigator SESE - DV Vetting engaged on CP duties you will be expected to:

Develop intelligence in relation to suspected breaches of export controls.

Have recent criminal justice experience as a law enforcement professional working in operational/intelligence development work.

Possess at least DV security clearance.

Represent HMRC at cross Whitehall meetings with CP partners.

Conduct outreach visits to the UK exporting community.

You will interact with a wide number of internal and external stakeholders including the Department for International Trade, Border Force, Police, National Crime Agency, Solicitors, Crown Prosecutors and colleagues from Other Government Departments and Agencies engaged in counter proliferation work.

There will be appearances in court and you will be required to make, and be accountable for, decisions and activities within the criminal justice system. These will also be subject to scrutiny and inspection by external authorities.

HMRC is hosting information sessions on Tuesday 23rd June 4 - 5pm and Wednesday 24th June 10 11am to accompany the application process where you will be able to hear more about the vacancy . To join the session you will need to register by completing the following:

Candidate Information Session - Candidate Information Session - Criminal Investigator HO - Tues 23rd June @ 4pm Fill in form

Candidate Information Session - Candidate Information Session - Criminal Investigator HO - Weds 24th June @ 10am Fill in form

• Ability to lead and progress complex criminal and/or civil investigations, taking ownership of decisions and outcomes.

• Strong investigative judgement, with the confidence to make defensible decisions under pressure.

• Excellent analytical skills, including the ability to review large volumes of information and identify risks, patterns and evidential opportunities

• Experience producing clear, accurate and legally compliant written material (e.g. case files, warrants, interview records and reports).

• Effective communication skills, including the ability to work confidently with senior stakeholders and external partners and give evidence in court.

• Proven ability to plan, prioritise and manage multiple tasks to deadlines.

• Operational capability to lead or support enforcement activity, managing risk and securing best evidence.

• Strong leadership skills, including coaching others, managing performance and supporting colleague wellbeing.

• Confident use of Microsoft Excel and the wider Microsoft 365 suite.

• Resilience, integrity and professionalism, with flexibility to meet operational demands.

Essential Criteria

• Utilisation of criminal justice procedures including knowledge and experience of:-