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Economic Crime Performance & Data Analyst – Edinburgh
About the job
Job summary
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HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service tackles the most serious fraud, evasion and organised criminal attacks against the tax system, using a wide range of approaches, skills and capabilities including civil and criminal investigations.
HMRC plays a significant role in tackling economic crime, delivered through its unique function as a tax authority, law enforcement agency and anti-money laundering supervisor. HMRC’s investigation, asset recovery and anti-money laundering powers complement and support the activities of the broader government agenda.
Exploitation of the UK’s financial system has consequences for tax compliance and society’s perception of fairness. Taking robust action when exploitation is identified, including through sectors HMRC supervises under the Money Laundering Regulations and criminal investigations, ensures there are consequences for those actions.
In FIS Economic Crime, we work across HMRC and the wider Law Enforcement community, using a unique blend of skills and expertise to recover the proceeds of crime and protect the UK against the risk of money laundering and terrorist financing, putting illicit finances at the centre of operations.
Our operational teams tackle the financial aspects of cases to deter, disrupt and remove assets from tax fraudsters, sending a clear message that crime doesn’t pay. This includes recovering the assets of crime using criminal and civil powers, taking action to ensure businesses in supervised sectors comply with money laundering and terrorist financing regulations and the post-conviction management of offenders.
Targeting and tackling the financial benefits of tax crime is a powerful approach in disrupting attacks on HMRC. Using our unique set of powers (including confiscation at the conclusion of a criminal trial, civil recovery tools, insolvency or taking control of goods to satisfy an outstanding debt) to achieve maximum impact, we take the profit out of tax crime and return monies to the Exchequer, ensuring funding of vital public services.
Job description
We will be holding two Candidate Information Sessions regarding this opportunity on Thursday 12th September at 12:00 and 16:30. Each session will last around 1 hour, and you’ll have the opportunity to hear from the hiring manager and members of the team about the role and application process. To register to attend please click the link below and register.
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The EC Performance Team supports the DD and Senior Leadership Team and works closely with FIS Strategy and FIS Performance in a fast paced and sometimes challenging environment. The team is currently based within a small Private Office with a move to a larger EC Corporate Centre imminent.
As an HO Performance Reporting Analyst, you will be responsible for managing the business through performance by using data better and understanding the need to have the right metrics for EC and improve evidence-based decision making, with a view to increasing performance.
The jobholder will be responsible for:
- Conducting data analysis and interrogation from a variety of sources and reviewing sets of data to identify trends, draw conclusions and provide simplified explanations to stakeholders.
- Building and maintaining strong working relationships with a range of stakeholders to develop our data and insight, underpinning our delivery, and forecasting decisions.
- Identifying solutions with good stakeholder engagement / management skills to allow us to respond quickly to various performance assumptions.
- Supporting the development and maintenance of performance hubs and dashboards which measure the health of EC and how it is performing against its operational targets and strategic commitments.
- Working with senior and business leads across EC to help them identify KPIs and understand the key information needed to measure the performance of their area by using visible metrics to track and monitor progress and delivery against KPIs and targets.
- Providing EC performance data in accordance with centralised requests to feed into high-level reports and regular briefings.
- Working with and through the business and their single points of contact to ensure a collective understanding of performance requirements and responsibilities.
- Ensuring EC adopts a centralised approach to recording and managing casework.
- Supporting the EC Performance Lead.
Depending on individual circumstances and the requirements of the role we may be able to make reasonable workplace adjustments such as flexible working, adjusting breaks and time to complete tasks, providing alternative office equipment, software etc. A successful applicant would be able to discuss this with their manager.
Person specification
Essential Criteria:
- You must demonstrate the ability to understand and conduct performance measurement and analysis, tracking trends, identifying emerging risks and issues and be comfortable making constructive challenges using the information and analysis to drive activity and resource usage.
- You must demonstrate the ability to use PowerBI and Excel in building analytical performance reports and convey data in an easy-to-understand format to inform and drive data-based decisions in EC.
- You must demonstrate experience of working at pace, and against changing priorities, on a variety of issues to deliver quality plans and briefings.
- You must demonstrate the ability to communicate clearly and effectively with senior leaders, and across all levels of the business, to influence decision making and drive-up data quality and continuous improvements at pace.
Desirable Criteria:
- Previous experience of working in an analytical environment.
- Experience of working in a compliance environment.
- Ability to work independently, have strong organisational skills and to take initiative and work flexibly within a team.
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Making Effective Decisions
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £35,092, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £10,166 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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Things you need to know
Selection process details
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 including your job history.
- A 500-word personal statement.
Personal Statement
You will be asked to provide a Personal Statement of up to 500 words. Within your personal statement you must clearly demonstrate how you meet the Essential Criteria using the STAR (Situation, Task, Action & Result) format providing examples of past achievements, what your experience can bring to the role.
The Personal Statement will be scored.
CV
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide a CV, which should detail your three most recent job roles. Within the CV you must clearly demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria. There is no word limit. The CV will only be scored in the event of a high number of applications.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Sift
In the event of a high number of applications, an initial sift may be completed against the CV. If your application progresses to a full sift, the Personal Statement on your application will be assessed.
Please note: Any candidate who fails to demonstrate that they meet the Essential Criteria within their Personal Statement will be automatically scored a ‘1’ and their application will not be assessed further.
We may also raise the score required at any stage of the process if we receive a high number of applications.
Interview
Candidates successful at sift will be invited to the next stage, which will consist of behavioural questions.
In the event of tied scores, the merit order will be determined on the overall score, then the scores of each element of the Success Profiles being considered.
Interviews will take place via Video. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
Eligibility
Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. We understand mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days(Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we will not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake, please contact us via: ubsrecruitmentexcellence@hmrc.gov.uk – Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example – ‘Please re-open my application – 367574 & vacancy closing date [insert date]’
To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before submitting your application.
Reserve List
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles – if this applies to you, we’ll let you know via your Civil Service Jobs account.
Merit List
After interview, a single merit list will be created, and you will only be considered for posts in locations you have expressed a preference for. Appointments will be made in strict merit order in line with the set number of roles in each location.
Criminal Record Check
Applications received from candidates with a criminal record are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.
Reasonable Adjustments
We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
- Contact the UBS Recruitment Excellence Team via ubsrecruitmentexcellence@hmrc.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
Additional Security Information
Please note: in addition to the standard pre-employment checks for appointment into the Civil Service, all candidates must also obtain National Security Vetting at Security Check (SC) clearance level for this vacancy. You will normally need to meet the minimum UK residency period as determined by the level of vetting being undertaken, which for SC is 5 years UK residency prior to your vetting application. If you have any questions about this residency requirement, please speak to the vacancy holder for this post.
Important information for existing HMRC contractual homeworkers:
This role may be suitable for existing HMRC employees who are contractual homeworkers. Occasional attendance to the office will be required where there is a business need. Please consider the advertised office locations for this role when applying and only select locations from the ‘location preferences’ section that you can travel to.
Terms and Conditions
Customer facing roles in HMRC require the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English and/or Welsh where required. Where this is an essential requirement, this will be tested as part of the selection process.
HMRC has a presence in every region of the UK. For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences.
Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant application(s) will be withdrawn from the process.
Recording of interviews is prohibited unless explicit agreement is sought in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulations.
Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
New entrants will join on the minimum of the pay band.
If you experience accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the ‘Contact point for applicants’ section.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).
See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
