This is an interesting and exciting role within Investigation and Enforcement Services directorate to conduct investigations into live companies where complaints or intelligence suggests they may not be trading in the public interest.
You will be required to use your own initiative to progress investigations to a successful conclusion and the role will involve the need to conduct remote field work including unannounced visits to company premises.
Responsibilities
- Managing and progressing a portfolio of investigations conducted using compulsory powers under Section 447 of the Companies Act 1985 in accordance with internal guidance and Government Counter Fraud Standards and with a view to gathering evidence to establish whether the activities of a company are being carried on in the public interest
- Reviewing and researching available source information
- Attending (unannounced) at company premises to serve and exercise the Section 447 authority, overcoming objections and using interpersonal skills to obtain cooperation from company representatives
- Making contact with company directors or third parties (e.g. solicitors, accountants, customers, suppliers, banks, etc) who may be reluctant to engage
- Undertaking investigative interviews with company directors and other third parties
- Identifying relevant accounting and other documents and making formal requirements for timely production and ensuring compliance
- Logging, reviewing, and analysing the documents and information produced during the investigation to identify wrongdoing, misconduct, or potential criminal offences
- Making timely, clear, reasoned, and robust recommendations to managers to progress the case to the appropriate conclusion
- Dealing 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
- Drafting 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
- Liaising professionally and expeditiously with legal professionals instructed on behalf of the Secretary of State and colleagues elsewhere in the Service
- Providing primary evidence in relation to investigations by way of affidavit or witness statement and appearing at Court to give oral evidence on behalf of the Secretary of State
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