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Our Mission

At BEIS, we are leading the UK’s recovery from coronavirus and are building a stronger, greener country. Our varied work makes a real difference to people across the UK and internationally. This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of the BEIS team and our exciting mission!

We lead on the UK’s commitments to tackle climate change and drive green economic growth. We support businesses to create jobs and increase opportunity in regions across the UK. We also encourage investment and innovation to make the UK a science superpower producing research that will improve lives.

Our Inclusive Environment

We are building an inclusive culture to make BEIS a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves. We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.

We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension. We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.

We actively welcome applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusion. We will fully support candidates with a disability or long-term condition who require adjustments in our recruitment process.

The BEIS Counter Fraud team is looking for a counter fraud professional with the experience, skills and personal qualities for a Grade 7 manager. The individuals will be part of the team managing the delivery of counter fraud activities across all BEIS schemes including, but not limited to, the Energy Schemes, COVID19 schemes, Local Authority Grants Schemes as well as managing Arms Length Bodies and a range of internal and external stakeholders.

We lead on a range of areas, from the business support measures designed to protect the entire economy to the safeguarding of the country’s critical energy infrastructure. We are the lead department on Net Zero, the UK’s commitment to a net zero greenhouse gas emissions target by 2050. Overall, this makes BEIS an exciting and varied place to develop a career.

Maintain and evolve BEIS counter fraud strategy, aligning to central function principles to direct and drive counter fraud response across BEIS and its Arms Length Bodies.

To lead on the roll-out of the BEIS action plan and to demonstrate compliance with HMG wide standards.

Leading on the work to develop and implement policies and procedures to manage potential for fraud, bribery and corruption.

Proactively raising the profile of counter-fraud work to support policy teams across BEIS and its arms-length bodies.

Leading improvements to performance reporting and accountability for counter-fraud performance across the BEIS group, working closely with investigation colleagues, the Public Sector Fraud Authority, arms-length bodies and other government departments to deliver maximum value from current activities and achieve best practice.

Advising and supporting BEIS partner organisations to develop and meet Government Counter Fraud Functional Standards to improve the prevention, detection and reporting of suspected frauds.

Advising and supporting BEIS partner organisations to develop and embed Initial Fraud Impact Assessments and Fraud Risk Assessments to improve the prevention, detection and reporting of suspected fraud.

To support the development and implementation of professional standards in counter fraud and grant administration in BEIS and its partner organisations, including the Public Sector Fraud Authority.

To advise colleagues on the management of fraud and abuse of taxpayer support through well designed policies and lessons learnt from the post assurance activities.

To develop cross cutting skills to support and influence colleagues to achieve VFM and compliance with managing public money.

Briefing Ministers, senior officials, internal and external stakeholders and providing high quality written and oral presentation of policy options and counter-fraud advice, based on the best data and intelligence available.

Representing the Department in cross-Departmental discussions on counter fraud issues. Contributing to requests for evidence from the National Audit Office and Public Accounts Committee inquiries as appropriate.

Building and maintaining strong working relationships with policy colleagues, analysts, other government departments, BEIS and external stakeholders.

Leading a programme of counter-fraud awareness-raising and training events, guidance materials, use of internal/external communications and culture change activities.

Skills and Experience

Experience of working in a counter fraud environment, particularly in the areas of fraud risk assessing, raising fraud awareness and Government Functional Standards.

Desirable:

Experience of writing fraud risk assessments and initial fraud impact assessments.

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

• Delivering at Pace
• Developing Self and Others
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions

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

• Fraud management - How would you drive cultural change to improve fraud management in BEIS
• Fraud strategy and policy - Using the fraud triangle of Prevent, Detect, Deter discuss these steps and how you would use them to influence BEIS’s fraud policy and strategy

We only ask for evidence of these technical skills on your application form:

• Fraud management - How would you drive cultural change to improve fraud management in BEIS

BEIS offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.

Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an average employer contribution of 27%.

A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.

An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.

Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.

A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need (from September 2021, depending on how the public health guidance evolves).

Job contact :

Name :
Danielle Stevens
Email :
[email protected]

Recruitment team :

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