Fraud Professional - Consultant/Senior Consultant (Proactive or Reactive) - Fraud Risk

Consulting brings together multiple teams across Transactions, Risk & Consulting, ABA, and Outsourcing to provide client-centric solutions for RSM's current and future clients within the middle market. Our Consulting team has a major role to play in driving forward the growth of the firm with over 1,700 people delivering almost £200m revenue. At the heart of Consulting are the six solutions we offer our clients: business transformation, deal services, finance function support, risk and governance, forensic and investigation services, and restructuring. Our solutions create an enhanced tailored approach to support our clients in achieving their strategic goals and empower our people to make an impact and develop their own unique career path.

About the role

Our established Fraud Risk Services team have a number of vacancies within our London/South team. Our ideal candidate is someone that has a real interest in fraud prevention, either through investigating it, or assisting our clients to identify gaps in their controls and remedy these or assist in training their staff to recognise and prevent fraud.

About the company and department

RSM's Fraud Risk Services team provide a range of counter fraud services to public and private sector clients. Many of our clients are NHS bodies, who are required by the NHS Counter Fraud Authority (CFA) to report annually against CFA requirements. Our NHS clients contract us for anything from 15 to 150 days per year to provide a full proactive (preventative) service. In addition to this our staff are accredited to undertake criminal investigations where our NHS clients are the victim of fraud.

Our Proactive work entails:

• Undertaking Fraud Risk Assessments - working with senior managers to understand the controls in place to mitigate fraud, testing the effectiveness of these, highlighting any missing/ineffective controls, and scoring the residual risk.
• Policy review - reviewing clients policies where fraud may exist, and ensuring that suitable controls are listed to allow disciplinary action to be taken where fraud is found.
• Liaison with senior staff - reporting directly to the Director of Finance or Chief Financial Officer to keep them apprised of all fraud prevention work, current risk levels, and progress against our agreed plan.
• Producing and presenting annual workplans, progress reports and annual reports to the Audit Committee.
• Delivering training - preparing and presenting informative, engaging, training sessions to our clients staff.
• Undertaking proactive exercises - similarly to an internal audit we deep-dive into areas of identified fraud risk to review and test the controls in place, and identify whether any fraud is present.
• Receipt of fraud referrals - receiving complaints from general staff, managers or HR relating to fraud, bribery or corruption.

Our Reactive work entails:

• Receiving fraud referrals, identifying; an estimated loss/gain, key lines of enquiry, and proportionality to investigate.
• Submitting DPA requests for evidence.
• Liaising with witnesses to gather evidence/exhibits, taking witness statements.
• Undertaking interviews under caution.
• Preparing case papers for the CPS.
• Recognising when criminal sanctions may not be proportionate/appropriate and recommending internal/regulatory action.
• Making recommendations to prevent reoccurrence.
• Working with NHS CFA Financial Investigators to make financial enquiries and gain evidence.

In addition to our NHS clients we work with a number of housing associations, charities, government departments and ALB's, universities, further education colleges and academies, and UN bodies. For these organisations we may be asked to undertake any of the tasks listed above, or undertake fact-finding, disciplinary or grievance investigations into fraud, or theft, bullying harassments, sexual harassment, conflict of interest or any other matter for which our staff have experience. Some of these assignments may involve an element of overseas travel, although this is not compulsory.

About the job

Our teams are divided into proactive or reactive as defined by the tasks above, although there is always an element of overlap. You may be required to undertake any of the tasks above, within your skill-set, and will be provided training and guidance in the other areas. Your focus will always be on protecting our clients from the risk of fraud, and prevent future fraud rather than simply sanctioning offenders. We are looking for staff at both entry (red) and experienced (blue) in proactive roles, and in blue roles in reactive roles.

As a red you will support more experienced staff by completing the individual tasks. You will be liaising with our clients staff, undertaking testing, devising training sessions, and undertaking enquiries. You will be pulling your findings into a detailed report. All of your work will be reviewed by more senior staff before being issued.

As a blue you will already have experience in delivering some of the tasks above, and will be confident in speaking with our clients independently. You may be given specific clients for which you will be responsible. This will involve planning and overseeing all work conducted for them, and liaising with their staff at all levels. As a blue in our reactive team you will be experienced in undertaking investigations independently, you will be able to assess whether a referral justifies a full investigation, set your own lines of enquiry and undertake these autonomously. You will be able to take witness statements and conduct interviews of both witnesses and suspects. Ideally you will have previous experience in presenting criminal prosecutions in both magistrates and the crown court.

About the ideal candidate

Our focus is on quality, so you need to be able to produce a high quality report that adds value. You should have a high level of attention to detail and be willing to work hard to meet deadlines and financial targets. Our clients pay for the time taken to produce the work, so you need to produce high quality results efficiently. You will get the opportunity to work across a number of different interesting organisations and make a real difference to them.

Requirements

Essential

• Be able to pass enhanced security vetting (NPPV + SC - Non-Police Personnel Vetting and Security Clearance).
• Be able to pass DBS clearance.
• Possess a full UK driving licence with access to a vehicle.
• Excellent verbal communicator, with an ability to articulate complex, sensitive and confidential information to staff, clients and other stakeholders.
• Excellent written communication skills, with an ability to construct high quality reports which may be presented to a varying degree of audiences.
• Strong ability to organise a varied workload, plan and manage own workloads and calendar, ensuring high quality client service is at the forefront of priorities.
• An ability to work unsupervised, use initiative and strive to exceed client's expectations.

Desirable

• Possess the Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist (ACFS) qualification.
• Fraud or risk related academic qualification.
• Criminal investigations experience (for reactive roles).
• Internal Audit experience/knowledge of controls and risk mitigation (for senior consultant proactive roles).

If you do not already hold the ACFS qualification training will be provided to secure this, as it is mandatory for all individuals conducting counter fraud work in the NHS.

Diversity and Inclusion at RSM

At RSM, we want to create a strong sense of belonging so that people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures feel they can bring their true self to work. Our clients come from all walks of life. We aim to achieve that same diversity of background, experience and perspective in our own teams, so that we can genuinely understand our client's needs. Diverse teams bring a broader range of ideas and insights to work. That’s why we’re working together to ensure our firm’s principles and processes support a firm culture that embraces difference and strengthens inclusion. At RSM we work hard to create an environment where our people can make a difference - to themselves, their career, their teams, and to the success of our firm and clients. We support all our people to work flexibly, to manage their family and other responsibilities alongside their work commitments; we believe this is key to achieving an inspiring and fulfilling working environment.