Financial Examiner - Investigator

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Apply before 11:55 pm on Friday 15th August 2025

25 days holiday + more

Base of £36,320 + £10,521 p.a (STC) Pension + Flex Payment

About the team

HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service (FIS) is responsible for the department’s civil and criminal investigations. FIS ensures that HMRC has an effective approach to tackling the most serious tax evasion and fraud.

FIS is home to a wide range of people with a variety of skills and professional backgrounds – including accountants, cybercrime specialists, criminal justice professionals, tax professionals and operational delivery teams to name but a few. We use a range of powers and approaches to protect funding for UK public services, investigating the most harmful tax cheats and ensuring none are beyond our reach. We target a variety of threats, including complex offshore evasion, international smuggling of illicit excise goods, exports of controlled weapons and technology, labour market abuses, money laundering, VAT and Self-Assessment repayment frauds and a host of other fraudulent attacks.

The Economic Crime (EC) deputy directorate brings together our Supervision, Proceeds of Crime Operations and Illicit Finance teams and forms an integral part of the HMRC Serious Fraud Strategy. Working closely across the department and the wider Law Enforcement community, using specialist expertise and modern technology we put illicit finance at the centre of operations. Our operational teams tackle the financial aspects of cases that will ultimately deter, disrupt, and remove assets from tax fraudsters to level the playing field for the honest majority. EC has several specialist teams who perform unique functions within HMRC, but which are common to other areas of the public sector.

Job Description

As a Financial Investigator, you’ll be at the forefront of disrupting serious tax fraud and illicit financial flows, focusing on recovering proceeds of crime and disrupting financial criminal activity. This role combines investigative expertise with legal knowledge to identify, restrain, and confiscate assets derived from criminal conduct.

You’ll lead financial investigations across recovery areas, collaborating with tax professionals, insolvency specialists, forensic accountants and Economic Crime teams to identify effective recovery methods.

You will deliver complex and impactful investigations including restraint and confiscation, detained cash investigations and Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) Part 5 work.

Key Responsibilities

• Court Applications: Attend court and make court applications and respond to questions from Judiciary and Court officials. Act as an Assurance Officer in line with the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA) 2002, other relevant legislation, case law, and Codes of Practice.
• Material Analysis: Analyse financial and case-related material to improve recovery opportunities.
• Case Preparation: Prepare cases for court and attend court to give evidence when necessary.
• Continuous Learning: Keep your knowledge and relevant accreditations up to date with changes in the law and technical and professional developments.
• Stakeholder Relationships: Build and maintain effective working relationships with key stakeholders, both internal and external, to ensure Illicit Finance is at the heart of all FIS investigation work.
• Mentor and support colleagues to lead and direct casework.
• Potential line management responsibilities for Financial Investigators, Financial Intelligence Officers and other Economic Crime Operations staff.
• Case Management: Maintain and update case management systems accurately on an ongoing basis.

Additional Responsibilities for Authorised Officers:

• Operational Planning: Plan, lead, and deploy operationally to maximize cash and listed assets interdiction opportunities.
• Wider Activities: Deploy operationally on broader activities to enhance Financial Investigations in other areas of Fraud Investigation Service.

Person Specification

We are seeking candidates who can demonstrate strong decision-making and problem-solving skills. You should have a proven ability to think laterally and drive forward investigations. Excellent communication skills are essential, with the ability to effectively communicate and negotiate with both internal and external stakeholders.

At HMRC, we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Please note: Security Check (SC) clearance level, either already held or willing to obtain, is a requirement of this role. Please see Additional Security Information and Security sections below.

• Recent experience of undertaking civil or criminal investigations.
• National Crime Agency Restraint and Confiscation Accreditation.
• POC Authorised Officer Training.
• BTEC Level 3 Advanced Diploma Enforcement Investigation.
• Good knowledge of tax regimes administered by HMRC and Civil Recovery Options to maximise Asset Recovery.

Flexibility Payment

Flexibility Payment This post attracts a Level 1a Flexibility Payment (FP) that is paid monthly with salary. This FP allows HMRC flexibility to change your work pattern, at short notice, to meet business needs. Additionally, you will be expected to work longer hours from time to time, at weekends and outside your normal working hours/days (including bank holidays). In applying for a position and accepting the FP you agree that you can and will meet those attendance requirements.

Note: Payment of FP is dependent on successful completion of role specific training. You are not eligible for FP until that stage is reached (see the attached document for details). FP levels are reviewed annually – on a business need and personal basis – and may be subject to change. If you currently receive the Flexibility Payment, which may include Transition Protection and/or a Maintained Pension Value, moving to a new role may affect your payments.

Behaviours

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

• Making Effective Decisions
• Leadership

Alongside your salary of £36,320, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £10,521 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.

We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.

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

How to Apply

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:

• A name-blind CV, your CV should include your job history of your last 3 roles. Please use no more than 100 words per role to provide a summary of your key achievements and main responsibilities.
• A 750-word Personal Statement, describing how your skills and experience meet the Person Specification and Essential Criteria.
• Please complete a separate statement (Max 250 words) for the Desirable Criteria, if applicable to you. This is not essential for the role but may be considered by the vacancy-holder where candidates have the same scores at sift or interview.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

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 for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Sift

At sift, your CV and your Personal Statement, will be assessed against the Essential Criteria and Personal Specification of the advert with the successful candidates being invited to interview.

We may also raise the score required at any stage of the process if we receive a high number of applications.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance

• Industries

  Government Administration and Financial Services

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