C1/SEO - Senior Investigator, Live Investigation South
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 18 Mehefin 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | £41,063 i £46,890 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Please note that negotiations for the Insolvency Service 2023 Pay Award are still ongoing. |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 30 Mehefin 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Stratford |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 355923/3 |
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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
This is an exciting role within Live Investigation South.
The team is located across three locations London, Croydon and Birmingham. However, this role is based at London or Croydon and therefore attendance at these offices in accordance with the Agency’s hybrid working model (currently 60% office attendance) is required. Regular travel to other sites and locations and to attend liaison meetings with stakeholders and other regulators, often at other offsite locations across the country will be required. Occasional overnight stays may be required. The vacancy is also open to Chatham, Southampton, Brighton for applicants who are already located in those offices and will be impacted by Transforming Workplaces.
As a Senior Investigator you will undertake your own confidential fact-finding enquiries, under the guidance of an Investigation Manager.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Investigator, you will:
- Manage and progress a portfolio of complex investigations conducted using compulsory powers under section 447 of the Companies Act 1985 in accordance with internal guidance and Government Counter Fraud Standards with a view to gathering evidence to establish whether the activities of a company are being carried on in the public interest.
- Review and research available source information.
- Make contact with company directors or third parties (e.g. solicitors, accountants, customers, suppliers, banks, etc) who may be reluctant to engage.
- Attend (unannounced) at company premises to serve and exercise the Section 447 authority, overcoming objections and using interpersonal skills to obtain cooperation from company directors.
- Undertake investigative interviews with company directors and other third parties.
- Identify relevant accounting and other documents and make a formal requirement for production in a timely manner, ensuring compliance.
- Log, review and analyse the documents and information produced during the investigation to identify wrongdoing, misconduct, or potential criminal offences.
- Make timely, clear, reasoned, and robust recommendations to managers to progress the case to the appropriate conclusion.
- Deal appropriately with confidential and sensitive information, understanding that a strictly enforced disclosure regime exists in relation to Section 447 investigations, and understanding the impact of other legislation on the investigation, e.g. FOIA & GDPR.
- Draft complex, evidence-based reports on the findings of an investigation to a standard suitable for testing in both civil and criminal courts or capable of forming the foundation for further action by other regulators.
- Liaise professionally and expeditiously with legal professionals and colleagues within the Service.
- Provide primary evidence in relation to investigations by way of affidavit or witness statement and appear at Court to give verbal evidence on behalf of the Secretary of State.
- Respond professionally and expeditiously to requests for witness evidence received from a range of prosecuting authorities and in relation to applications to disqualify directors.
- Effectively build and manage engagement and collaborative relationships with external stakeholders.
- Keep up to date with changes in legislation and internal processes and procedures in a rapidly changing environment.
- Provide a wider team and corporate contribution to include acting as a subject matter expert, providing mentoring to trainees, assisting with technical guidance, training and development and recruitment, and supporting colleagues with their investigations.