Counter Fraud Prevention Officer
| Posting date: | 18 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £29,525 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 October 2025 |
| Location: | Cardiff |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 427011/3 |
Summary
Do you have a keen interest in counter fraud?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) helps keep Britain moving, safely and sustainably. We do this by helping people through a lifetime of safe and sustainable journeys, helping them keep their vehicles safe to drive, and protecting them from unsafe drivers and vehicles.
We’re working hard to:
- make roads safer
- improve services for our customers
- make road transport greener and healthier
- harness the potential of technology and data
- grow and level up the economy
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at DVSA: Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - Department for Transport Careers
The purpose of this role is to develop comprehensive risk management strategies and policies to prevent external and internal fraud.
The Counter Fraud Prevention Officer will work with service management groups across DVSA’s areas of responsibility to devise reporting environments for fraud, analysing systems and reports to identify potential risks.
The role holder is responsible for providing a rigour by which areas of risk in the areas identified above can be managed and actioned as required by the Counter Fraud Prevention Manager, Senior Investigation Manager and the Head of Counter-Fraud.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
- Conducting desk based and field assessments of DVSA processes and procedures across all service management areas and small schemes to identify areas open to fraud risks.
- Compiling comprehensive fraud risk assessment reports.
- Attending policy, standards and strategy meetings advising on implementing anti-fraud measures at design stage and reporting on findings from existing procedure reviews.
- Developing and maintaining good relationships with colleagues across different directorates.
- Conducting and assisting with multi-agency work alongside other agencies.
- Liaising with relevant internal departments to ensure that internal and external customer needs are met and that these requirements are fully communicated throughout the business.
- Ensuring good relations and communications with all members of the team and responding politely and in a timely fashion to internal and external customers.
- Communicating with all major stakeholders (internal and external) to achieve business objectives.
For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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