L3/HEO Trainee Investigators -Insolvent Investigations (North)
| Posting date: | 18 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £31,620 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Please note the Insolvency Service 2023 Pay Award is still to be completed. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 April 2024 |
| Location: | Leeds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 349096/2 |
Summary
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.
Our Structure
The Investigation and Enforcement Services Directorate (IES) aims to deliver and promote a range of investigation and enforcement activities both civil and criminal in nature, to support fair and open markets and to promote high standards of corporate behaviour. IES plays a key role in enforcing the statutory company and insolvency regimes to maintain public confidence in those regimes and to tackle the harm caused to victims of fraudulent activity.
The Opportunity
We are looking for dynamic and motivated people to join our Insolvent Investigation team in the North as trainee Level 3/HEO investigators to be based in either Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester and Newcastle upon Tyne.
In Insolvent Investigation North, we carry out civil investigations into the conduct of directors of companies in voluntary & compulsory liquidation or administration, or dissolved companies, to establish whether disqualification proceedings are in the public interest.
In appropriate cases, we:
- Prepare expedited minutes, draft affirmations/affidavits or reports for director disqualification proceedings,
- Act as deponent, representing the Secretary of State at trial in consultation with Legal Services Directorate, solicitor agents and counsel,
- Publicise outcomes by issuing press releases, giving interviews and other media related work,
- Seek Compensation Orders against directors.
- We refer possible criminal offences to the Insolvency Service’s Criminal Investigation Teams or the appropriate prosecuting authority, providing witness statements and appearing as witnesses in criminal proceedings.
Our work also includes engagement with insolvency practitioners and other stakeholder groups through outreach activity as well as contributing to Insolvency Service policy.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate for an investigator role can expect to be involved in a range of the following:
- Communicating effectively with a wide range of stakeholders; including accountants, directors & creditors, to establish key information
- Using a range of intelligence tools to locate & contact directors
- Conducting probing interviews with directors, who may not wish to engage, challenging assertions where necessary, and obtaining written statements
- Analysing, interpreting and reviewing a range of information, including accounting records, bank statements and tax documents to draw conclusions
- Dealing with conflict and diffusing difficult situations
- Identifying potential misconduct or criminal offences
- Making timely, clear, reasoned and robust recommendations to managers both in person and in writing either to conclude a case, continue an investigation or refer for civil or criminal proceedings
- Drafting reports and affidavits setting out evidence of suspected wrongdoing, preparing court bundles for issue and use at hearings, attending and contributing to conferences with Solicitors and Barristers
- Preparing applications to court, and associated papers for hearings
- Attending court when required, in a supporting role and/or to act as a witness in both civil and criminal proceedings if required
- Maintain accurate and timely records via a case management system
- Keeping up to date with changes in legislation and internal processes and procedures in a rapidly changing environment