Counter Fraud Lead - Brighton, United Kingdom - Pensions Regulator

Pensions Regulator

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Brighton, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £48,425 - £55,150

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:
Other
Contract type:
Fixed term
Length of employment:
18 Months
Business area:
Central Operations
Type of role:
Other
Working pattern:
Flexible working
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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Location

Brighton, South East England, BN1 6AFAbout the job

Job summary:

About us
More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings.

With a career at TPR, you'll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.

Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe.

We're committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.

It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment.

This includes our Disability Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic Network, Time to Change Champions (mental health), and Women's Network which offer spaces to connect.

Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry.

We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.

We operate a hybrid working model, with regular attendance in our Brighton office to connect with colleagues across the business.

Job description:

Role

Responsibilities

You will:

Deliver independent, objective fraud risk assessment and assurance activity designed to identify potential gaps and risk areas and to work closely with relevant teams to ensure mitigations are in place.
Support TPR in accomplishing its objectives by designing and implementing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of fraud risk management, control and governance processes.
Support key risk areas in designing suitable counterfraud controls and KRIs where applicable.
Manage and analyse fraud controls MI from key risk areas and teams to ensure that 2nd line assurance can be provided over controls.
Deliver quality fraud investigations and reports in a timely manner for a variety of audiences of all levels up to Board.
Ensure that the implementation of post fraudassessment recommendations is monitored and reported to the Executive Committee and the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee.
Form a crossTPR internal fraud response group to respond to identified potential fraud, bribery or corruption cases, taking the lead on sharing lessons learned and good practice from external sources.
Work effectively alongside and compliment the assurance functions across all lines of defense, particularly where bribery and corruption activity and training are linked to employee conduct and compliance activity within the wider function.
Forge robust relationships across Government and the public sector and play an active part in networking across the profession, including becoming the conduit between TPR and current Government agenda around the new Public Sector Fraud Authority.
Ensure that all external statistics and metrics reporting is of high quality, is timely and is shared appropriately with Government and other stakeholders.
Promote and act as an ambassador for the Counter-Fraud team and the wider ECCF function across TPR.
Deputise for the Head of ECCF as Counter-Fraud Lead where required, both internally and externally.

Person specification:

Essential and Desirable Criteria

Proven expertise in internal counterfraud management, ideally within the public sector.
Solid understanding of Government Counter-Fraud activities and compliance with organisational standards like the Government Functional Standard and emerging Public Sector Fraud Authority (PSFA) work with the willingness to undergo professional training in this area.
Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship skills at all levels, with an ability to adapt to audience needs and awareness of information sensitivity and employee wellbeing.
Proficiency in identifying weaknesses in financial and operational risks, along with strong communication skills both verbal and written to be able to translate technical complexity for a strategic/boardlevel audience.
Experience in managing projects with an ability to deliver complex fraud risk reviews and investigations on time and of high quality while using varied IT systems.

Desirable