JOB SUMMARY

The Insolvency Service is a leading Government agency which plays a crucial role in providing essential services to the public and to business. The work we do is important to the proper functioning of markets, the economy in general and support for thousands of people each year who are in financial difficulty.
Inclusive and diverse teams are important to us. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including groups underrepresented in our workforce. The Insolvency Service strives to ensure that the agency is a safe, inclusive and welcoming place for everybody to bring their true self to work and to help the agency to achieve its diversity objectives. We have 10 active employee network groups available to join or become an ally, these include, Carers Network, Disability & Health, FACES Network Group, Grass Roots, LGBT+, Mind Matters, No Limits, Part Time Workers, The Shed, and Women’s Network Group.
We offer full-time, part-time, job share and flexible ways of working. We value capability, technical skills and experience and we place great emphasis on lifetime development to support our people. We encourage our employees to become more involved in areas they feel strongly about, whether it be for the benefit of the agency, though our Engagement network or in their own local communities via volunteering opportunities.
The Insolvency Service is a great place to work, learn and grow your career!

JOB DESCRIPTION

Investigation and Enforcement Services (IES) directorate aims to deliver and promote a range of investigation and enforcement activities, both civil and criminal in nature, to support fair and open markets. We do this by effectively enforcing the statutory company and insolvency regimes, maintaining public confidence in those regimes, and reducing the harm caused to victims of fraudulent activity and to the business community.
This is an interesting and exciting role within the Financial Investigation Team, which is part of the Investigation and Enforcement Services Directorate. The team provides expert Asset Recovery work under the Proceeds Of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) supporting criminal and Intelligence investigation teams, to the wider agency and external partners. Team members are located across the country.
The postholder would need to be a flexible, positive leader, who can build trusted working relationships with a range of people, internal and external, promoting a collaborative and positive team spirit.
Some prior financial intelligence / investigation knowledge is desirable, additional training will be provided on the job and there will be support within the team who have a wealth of experience.
This is an exciting role within IES with responsibility for leading the Financial Investigation admin team. Providing an essential service to support the wider team in investigation and enforcement of asset recovery opportunities.
The post is a new post with opportunity to develop leadership and continuous improvement skills helping to shape the delivery of enforcement and asset recovery outcomes.
The post can be carried out Nationally, but occasional attendance at each office may be required. The Financial Investigation admin team provides support to Accredited Financial Investigators to achieve targets and Insolvency Service goals.

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)
• 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

RESPONSIBILITIES

The post will involve leadership of the Financial Investigation admin team, the main duties of this are:

• Setting performance objectives for staff, linking objectives to local and divisional targets and expectations.
• Oversee administrative staff, ensuring efficient workflow, managing administrative processes, and liaising with the investigation teams to prioritise tasks.
• Monitoring team’s performance to ensure orders are logged in Cyclops in an efficient and timely fashion to ensure effective investigations, leading to the appropriate outcome, which contribute to IES’ targets.
• Review and reconcile allocation of ARIS Funds, raise outstanding queries.
• Identifying issues in any processes and address them as needed to ensure high quality investigation support is provided.
• Monitoring court timetables in relation to POCA matters, ensuring timetables are provided to the relevant officers, logged and adhered to.
• Maintaining central database of court orders to identify and enable revisits under Section 22 of POCA.
• Empowering FIU admin officers to operate as a team, giving them full autonomy to assist investigators and each other in achieving the services and local targets.
• Manage relevant excel spreadsheets including updating records of access users of intelligence and FIU systems.
• Maintain and keep records of Purchase Orders, highlighting renewal dates and drafting new Orders for consideration.
• Ensuring that the admin team accurately and effectively maintains records of the work they do and promote a secure information culture.
• Contributing to the local audit regime, providing feedback on findings to both management and staff as appropriate.
• Undertaking effective staff performance reviews against objectives, identify and review staff development needs, and proactively manage any performance or attendance issues.
• Actively implementing principles of Continuous Improvement by being open to innovation and new ideas and by contributing suggestions of your own and/or providing constructive feedback on the ideas or innovations of others.
• Participating in local management activities, including business planning, risk management, and recruitment as required.
• Participating in other work outside of the team/region as and when required.
• Undertake such other duties appropriate to the grade and character of work as may reasonably be required, including the specific duties of similar or lesser graded posts

The duties will also include.

• Line management of the admin FIU team
• Maintaining the master sheet of bank statement requests
• Dealing with escalation requests
• Responsibility for data requests and data sharing agreements
• Engaging with senior management in IES about performance

We want you to have a good work-life balance and want to support you in all that you do, so we offer a great benefits package including:

• flexible working arrangements and flexi-time
• full time new entrants to the Civil Service and those Civil Servants on modernised terms and conditions will be entitled to 25 days leave increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years’ service
• in addition to this you are entitled to 8 public/bank holidays plus an additional day of privilege leave
• competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave
• 5 days paid leave for learning and development
• 5 days paid for volunteering
• a Cycle to work scheme
• staff have access to an employee assistance programme, Workplace Wellness, for confidential, independent support and advice during difficult times in either their professional or personal lif