Financial Investigations Manager - Civil Recovery

Job summary

The Asset Denial teams work to substantially reduce the level of serious and organised crime affecting the UK by denying criminals access to their illicit assets, recovering the proceeds of crime, and deterring and disrupting further criminality. The Civil Recovery and Tax team (CRT) utilises an array of asset denial powers to target the highest risk and most serious and organised criminals.

Job description

The Financial Investigations Manager for the Civil Recovery & Tax team (CRT) is responsible for delivering asset recovery against high impact economic crime through managing and leading a team of Financial Investigators responsible for developing and progressing complex investigations on development and tasked CRT financial investigations under Part 5 Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) 2002.

You will lead and manage a team of financial investigators, acting as senor investigating officer and supporting progression of operations from tasking through to recovery to erode the profit motive thereby undermining a key incentive associated with the highest risk and serious and organised crime.

Your varied duties mean that every day will bring a new challenge. With activities often of a time-critical nature, you must be able to multi-task and prioritise whilst supporting your team and developing their talents.

The role utilises a wide range of knowledge and experience around legislation, good practice and shared learning delivered in a timely fashion.

Part-time minimum: 35 hours

Duties and Responsibilities

Lead a Team

Manage and lead a team of Financial Investigators responsible for developing and progressing complex investigations on development and tasked CRT financial investigations.

Provide Direction

Provide strategic, operational and tactical financial direction and advice to Investigations Teams and Financial Investigators.

Authorising Officer

To act as Authorising Officer, applying specialist knowledge in respect of POCA 2002;

Asset Recovery

To deliver asset recovery against high impact economic crime through the use of asset recovery tools and legislation. Along with providing advice and guidance to seniors, operational teams and partners on the options available to identify, freeze and seize illicit wealth.

Relationship Management

Develop and maintain good working relationships with both internal and external partners including other law enforcement agencies

Manage Change

Manage change activity and communicate proposed changes with staff and stakeholders;

Monitor and Manage Operational Performance

Set and monitor operational performance and ensure that all operations and projects align with strategic objectives, comply with relevant control strategies and oversee the update of risk registers.

Provide Operational Support

Provide operational support, advice and guidance to police throughout the UK into investigations of serious crime

Manage and Develop Protocols

Ensure local/national strategy, policy, legislative frameworks and operational priorities are developed and promoted amongst National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) Law Enforcement partners and government departments.

Person specification

Analytical Skills

Ability to examine and interpret complex data from various sources to assess situations and draw robust conclusions.

Collaborative Working

Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders in order to achieve business objectives.

Partnership Working

Develop and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders and build strong rapport.

Communication Skills

Effective communication with a range of audiences, at all grades, in various formats.

Influencing

Ability to influence, change and impact decisions with both internal and external stakeholders.

Quality Management

Ability to plan, develop and maintain processes to ensure functions are working as intended.

Organisational Skills

Ability to manage a wide portfolio of tasks and reporting requirements in a fast-paced environment with often tight deadlines.

Risk Management and Decision Making

Ability to assess risks and make accountable, evidence-based operational decisions in complex and high-pressure environments.

Leadership

Ability to engage, motivate and coach others in order to lead the team to meet business objectives, fostering innovation, driving high performance and promoting an inclusive and supportive culture.

People Management

Team leadership and people skills to meet goals and promote wellbeing and diversity, deal with conflict within teams and manage performance.

Asset Denial/Civil Recovery Landscape

Experience and in-depth knowledge of relevant legislation (UK and International law) affecting operational activity.

Operational Experience

Recent experience of leading criminal, civil or regulatory investigations on complex economic and financial cases. Creating and taking ownership of strategies to deliver operational successes.

Problem Solving

Examine issues to identify solutions to complex problems in collaboration with others.

Full advert details for this vacancy can found on the advert on the NCA Recruitment Portal. Please follow the link to apply at advertisers' site.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Recent experience of conducting criminal, civil or regulatory investigations on complex economic and financial cases (lead technical)
• Experience and an in-depth knowledge of relevant legislation (UK and International Law) affecting operational activity.
• Experience in effective operational decision making with accountability for decisions made.
• Experience of implementing cultural change to improve culture and develop diverse talent.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £55,575, National Crime Agency contributes £16,100 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

All NCA employees are members of the UK Civil Service and eligible for the Civil Service pension scheme, alongside your salary the NCA contributes £13131. Further information on the benefits of the scheme is available on the Civil Service Pension Website.

New entrants to the NCA receive 26 days annual leave, rising to 31 on completion of 5 years continuous service, plus 8 bank holidays.

If qualifying criteria is met new joiners from UK Police Forces or the UK Intelligence Community (UKIC) will have service with those employers taken into account for continuous service purposes for annual leave entitlement only, this will be up to a maximum of 31 days leave (including 1 privilege day).

Other benefits include:

• Flexible working, including flexi-time, compressed hours and job sharing (in line with business requirements)
• Family friendly policies, notably above the statutory minimum
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Interest free loans and advances, including season tickets, childcare and rental deposits
• Housing schemes - Key Worker status
• Discounts and Savings with a wide variety of services including Cycle to Work, Smart Tech schemes, dental insurance, gym discounts and savings on everyday spending, available through the Reward Gateway , Edenred and Blue Light Card schemes.
• Staff support groups/networks
• Sports and social activities, including membership to the Civil Service Sports Council (CSSC)

Further information is available on the NCA Website.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

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 (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Technical skills.

Your application will be assessed against the following:

Technical - this will be assessed by 250 word examples on:

• Recent experience of conducting criminal, civil or regulatory investigations on complex economic and financial cases (lead technical)

• Experience and an in-depth knowledge of relevant legislation (UK and International Law) affecting operational activity.

• Experience in effective operational decision making with accountability for decisions made.

• Experience of implementing cultural change to improve culture and develop diverse talent.

A panel will assess how well your application demonstrates the requirements outlined above.

Longlist

In the event of a high number of applications, we may operate a longlist. Applicants will need to meet the minimum pass mark for the lead criteria.

- Recent experience of conducting criminal, civil or regulatory investigations on complex economic and financial cases (lead technical criteria) .

Candidates who do not meet the minimum pass mark for the lead criteria will not progress to having their other criteria assessed. Applications must meet the minimum criteria to be progressed to the assessment stage.

You will receive an acknowledgement once your application is submitted.

We aim to have sift completed and scores released within 10 working days of the closing date of the advert. For high volume campaigns this timeframe may be extended.

Scores will be provided but further feedback will not be available at this stage.

For guidance on the application process, visit:
NCA Applying and Onboarding

Assessment 1

The format of this assessment will be Interview which will be tested on the criteria listed in the Success Profiles at Assessment section.

Success Profiles at Assessment

Behaviours

• Leadership

• Managing a Quality Service

• Delivering at Pace

Technical

• Recent experience of conducting criminal, civil or regulatory investigations on complex economic and financial cases (lead technical)

• Experience and an in-depth knowledge of relevant legislation (UK and International Law) affecting operational activity.

• Experience in effective operational decision making with accountability for decisions made.

• Experience of implementing cultural change to improve culture and develop diverse talent.

Assessment Outcome

Outcomes will be communicated via the NCA recruitment portal.
If successful but no role is immediately available, you may be placed on a reserve list for 12 months.
Reserve lists can be used to fill similar role types across the Agency where the assessment criteria is considered a match by the recruitment team and the business area.

In the event of a tie at the assessment stage, available roles will be offered in merit order using the following order:

1. Lead criteria (behaviours/technical/experience)
2. If still tied, desirable criteria will be assessed (if advertised)
3. If still tied, application sift scores will be used

Feedback is provided only to those who attend an assessment.

You will be subject to vetting and pre-employment checks before appointment.

Once the vacancy closes, the advert will no longer be accessible. Please save a copy for your records.

We encourage all candidates to visit the NCA Careers Page for more information.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

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)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : The Recruitment Team
• Email : central.recruitment@nca.gov.uk
• Telephone : central.recruitment@nca.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : central.recruitment@nca.gov.uk

Further information

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