JOB SUMMARY

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HMRC is the UK’s tax, payments and customs authority and we have a vital purpose: we collect the money that pays for the UK’s public services and help families and individuals with targeted financial support.
HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service (FIS) is responsible for the department’s civil and criminal investigations.
FIS provides HMRC with an effective investigation arm to enforce the Department’s 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.
Covert Operations, Digital Exploitation (CODE) sits within HMRC’s wider Fraud Investigation Service (FIS). Working across Law Enforcement and government, CODE provides investigative tools and covert techniques to front-line investigations and works with key partners to develop and provide access to new technology and systems to enable investigators to respond to serious and complex tax evasion and crime.

JOB DESCRIPTION

HMRC is faced with increasingly complex frauds committed by well-resourced and, often, digitally informed and aware criminal groups.
This post sits within the CODE Digital Operations command that includes the Communications Data Unit (CDU) and the National Digital Investigation Unit (NDIU). This command recognises the importance and synergy between these two technical areas.
This is an opportunity to join CODE Digital Operations during a crucial period of expansion, development of capability and impact.
The NDIU specialise in digital problem solving, drawing upon operational experience and pragmatic application of datasets, such as but not limited to Communications data, Open Source Intelligence, vehicle telematics, ANPR data and digital forensics (handset downloads).
Developing an effective digital strategy is fundamental to achieving meaningful operational outcomes.
The NDIU has a presence in most Regional Centres and strategic sites. Being a national team involves regular travel with overnight stays to attend training courses or work alongside colleagues, particularly within the first year on the team.

QUALIFICATIONS

Candidates must either:

• Have a HMRC Accredited Counter Fraud Qualification Level 4 Diploma, or its HMRC predecessor BTEC level 3 Diploma in Criminal Investigation,

Or

• Previous PIP2 qualification, and successful completion of HMRC’s Criminal Investigation Foundation training programme and abridged Training Assessment Period.

HOW TO APPLY

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:

• A name-blind CV, to include your job history and experience.
• A 250-word Personal Statement, demonstrating how you meet the Job Description and Essential Criteria.
• Separate 250-word statements covering each of the Behaviours: Leadership, Making Effective Decisions, Delivering at Pace.

Please also complete a separate statement (max 250-words) for the Desirable Criteria, where applicable. This is not essential for the role but may be considered by the vacancy-holder where candidates have the same scores at sift or interview.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

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

Investigation