Accredited Financial Investigator

at  Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

JOB SUMMARY

Do you have experience of conducting financial investigations under the Proceeds of Crime legislation?
Do you enjoy a varied and interesting workload?
If so, we are looking for two highly motivated individuals to join our team, and we would love to hear from you.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As one of our Accredited Financial Investigators, you will be responsible for maximising asset recovery opportunities and removing the money generated by serious and organised crime as part of Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) drive to

• prevent and detect fraud against DVSA products/services.
• deny criminals the benefits of fraudulent activities and protect the public from harm.

In these roles you will be responsible for delivering a wide variety of complex and exciting investigations, including delivery of restraint and confiscation, detained cash and Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA).
You will take the lead and proactively manage and investigate financial investigations in all areas by collaborating with all investigation teams across the agency to identify alternative methods of recovery.
You will be the National Portfolio lead having responsibility for raising the standards of investigation and quality of casework for prosecution and regulatory action across enforcement delivery. Where wider issues are identified, you may need to liaise with Policy to resolve, or to arrange for communications to be issued within Enforcement.
These interesting roles provide the opportunity to actively engage with staff networks to promote best practice and to collaborate with a broad range of external partners.

As Accredited Financial Investigator, your key duties and responsibilities will include:

• Leading the planning, preparing, and managing of serious/ serially noncompliant investigations to identify and pursue opportunities for the recovery of criminal assets by means of confiscation, forfeiture and seizure of cash.
• Providing advice and guidance across the wider team while carrying out case work, ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation, professional practices, internal quality procedures and Internal Auditing Standards.
• Managing relationships with stakeholders, including Intelligence, Prosecution and Legal Services (PLS), Investigations and Counter Fraud (I&CF) and Planning and Performance, to meet objectives of the wider team.
• Collaborating with managers across all functions for the good of DVSA and to create a high performing and well-respected Agency.
• Working as part of a national resource by providing support for other Case Managers to ensure continuity across teams.

For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached Candidate Pack.

ABOUT US

The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) helps keep Britain moving, safely and sustainably.
We do this by helping people through a lifetime of safe and sustainable journeys, helping them keep their vehicles safe to drive, and protecting them from unsafe drivers and vehicles.

We’re working hard to:

• make roads safer
• improve services for our customers
• make road transport greener and healthier
• harness the potential of technology and data
• grow and level up the economy

To find out more about how we champion diversity and inclusion in the workplace and making DVSA a great place to work visit our Careers website.

QUALIFICATIONS

You will either be working towards, previously held or currently hold a National Crime Agency Accredited Financial Investigator qualification Part 2 and Part 8 and maintaining this though Continual Professional Development.
Evidence of the qualification will be required during the selection process.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

As one of our Accredited Financial Investigators, you will be responsible for maximising asset recovery opportunities and removing the money generated by serious and organised crime as part of Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency’s (DVSA) drive to

• prevent and detect fraud against DVSA products/services.
• deny criminals the benefits of fraudulent activities and protect the public from harm

As Accredited Financial Investigator, your key duties and responsibilities will include:

• Leading the planning, preparing, and managing of serious/ serially noncompliant investigations to identify and pursue opportunities for the recovery of criminal assets by means of confiscation, forfeiture and seizure of cash.
• Providing advice and guidance across the wider team while carrying out case work, ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation, professional practices, internal quality procedures and Internal Auditing Standards.
• Managing relationships with stakeholders, including Intelligence, Prosecution and Legal Services (PLS), Investigations and Counter Fraud (I&CF) and Planning and Performance, to meet objectives of the wider team.
• Collaborating with managers across all functions for the good of DVSA and to create a high performing and well-respected Agency.
• Working as part of a national resource by providing support for other Case Managers to ensure continuity across teams