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About Us�
We have an exciting opportunity to join HMRC's Financial Controls Assurance Team (FCAT). �You will work in a fast-paced demand-led environment, building relationships, and providing specialist process risks and controls advice and assurance on HMRC processes to administer UK taxes, duties and benefits.
This role gives an outstanding opportunity to develop key leadership, risk assessment, assurance and collaboration skills.
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FCAT is part of Risk, Control & Financial Accounting Directorate within the HMRC Chief Finance Officer Group. The Directorate�s vision in relation to assurance is to help steer HMRC towards a better understanding of its key risks and to ensure these are well controlled.
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We are a small geographically-dispersed team whose remit extends across all HMRC taxes, duties and benefits processes, and all corporate processes which ultimately lead to payments in/out, or entries in the published HMRC financial statements.
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We work collaboratively with HMRC�s Business Groups and Change teams to embed, assure and improve financial controls standards. We provide expert advice and challenge to help keep HMRC safe � by assuring that robust financial controls, including segregation of duties, are designed and operating in processes and systems to mitigate internal fraud, external fraud, error and money laundering risks.
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Most of the team�s work is focused on the various taxes, duties and benefits that HMRC administers. We cover all processes in the �customer journey� including registrations, returns/declarations/claims, payments in, payments out, penalties, interest and debts.
Job description
Our exciting and interesting role would suit anyone who wants to work in a very busy and dynamic demand-led environment with a desire to improve their risk assessment and controls assurance skills.
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The successful candidate will join the FCAT Change Assurance Team and they will:
1. Work with an assigned portfolio of higher risk and complex Change projects with different timelines and implementation dates.
2. Provide expert advice, challenge and assurance to Change projects to ensure HMRC standards for internal controls, including segregation of duties, are embedded into the design of new and changing processes.
3. Influence Change projects to meet standards for process controls and segregation of duties before their live implementation dates, and escalate any significant control weaknesses promptly.
4. Provide support to team colleagues where needed, including cover during leave periods.
The role will involve some travel with occasional overnight stays and may include HR management responsibilities in the future.
The scope of our work excludes:
5. Project Management and project risk management.
6. Intelligence/business analysis.
7. Financial management (forecasting, budgeting, monitoring expenditure, process costs, reports production etc).
8. Process and data mapping.
9. Security.
10. Dynamic/organisation-level risks.
Person specification
The successful candidate will have proven experience of reviewing business processes, identifying/assessing risks and/or assuring controls are sufficient to mitigate the risks of internal fraud, external fraud, money laundering and error.
They will:
11. Be a highly motivated self-starter who thrives on working in a fast-paced, dynamic demand-led environment.
12. Pro-actively manage their own workload and responsibilities, demonstrating effective leadership to manage multiple deadlines and conflicting priorities to ensure Change projects meet HMRC controls and segregation standards before their live implementation dates.
13. Have highly developed interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence, with evidence of excellent influencing in a large dispersed organisation.
14. Thrive on collaborating with team colleagues and Change projects across HMRC at a variety of grades, influencing stakeholders and building effective relationships to ensure robust controls and segregation are delivered in new/changing processes.
15. Be resilient when faced with work pressures and challenge, and confident in situations where there is no existing clear precedent, understanding both the detail and the bigger picture.
16. Have an inquiring mind and apply strong analytical/evaluation skills to understand new automated and manual processes without prior knowledge, identifying risk exposures / control weaknesses and working collaboratively with Change teams to agree solutions.
17. Be passionate about making a difference by improving internal controls.
18. Be an excellent and credible communicator - proficient at simplifying complex concepts, tailoring communications to fit the audience and presenting facts (including assurance results) and recommendations verbally and in clear, succinct and persuasive papers.
19. Take pride in their work and seek to continually improve team processes and enhance the HMRC standards for controls and segregation.
The successful candidate is expected to:
20. Remain in post for a minimum of 2 years.
21. Complete Government Counter Fraud training on Fraud Risk Assessments.
Essential Criteria
Experience of one or more of the following in a large organisation:
22. Reviewing business processes, identifying risks and assuring internal controls.
23. Managing process risks.
24. Successfully influencing or implementing process improvements to reduce the risk of internal fraud, external fraud, money laundering and error.
Desirable Criteria
25. Membership of the Government Counter Fraud profession.
26. Professional qualifications in Internal Auditing or Risk Management.
27. Experience of working collaboratively across grades and business areas in geographically dispersed teams.
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
28. You will also be required to give a 5 minute presentation
Benefits
Alongside your salary of �42,618, HM Revenue and Customs contributes �12,346 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
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.�
29. Pension�- We make contributions to our colleagues� Alpha pension equal to at least of their salary.
30. Family friendly policies.
31. Personal support.
32. Coaching and development.�
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