Counter Fraud Specialist

This is a great opportunity to work in the Sopra Steria
(SSL) Counter Fraud Service (CFS), specifically within Sopra Steria Financial
Services Limited (SSFSL), to provide a service to all SSFSL business areas,
external clients and stakeholders.

The SSFSL Counter Fraud Specialist supports the Head of Counter Fraud in
delivery of the Counter Fraud strategy. The individual will respond to the
challenge of developing and implementing new ways of working as well as
maintaining existing processes across the business to ensure SSFSL protect its
financial assets and those of its clients.

The SSFSL Counter Fraud Specialist is responsible for ensuring that SSFSL delivers
an effective Counter Fraud programme, including conducting investigations,
providing a robust fraud prevention approach across the whole business and
developing and delivering a programme of Fraud Risk Assessments.
This is a hybrid variable role requiring limited
presence in either our Blackpool, Durham, Newcastle, Glasgow or London offices.

What you will be doing:

- Manage the investigation of any reported suspected incidents of Fraud, maintaining an accurate, comprehensive, factual record of the actions taken at each stage of the investigation and conclusions reached.
- Working with business unit’s specific customer fraud teams as required, providing advice and guidance.
- Being a main point of contact for advice and guidance relating to Fraud and associated areas such as Money Laundering and Bribery & Corruption.
- Implementing Government Counter Fraud standards (GovS 013).
- Delivery and maintenance of Fraud prevention frameworks in line with the pillars from the Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Act guidance notes.
- Work with SSFSL business areas to facilitate and maintain Fraud Risk Assessments (FRA).
- Identification and management of Fraud related risks, ensuring that the appropriate controls are being managed to mitigate the risks.
- Support 1st and 2nd line activities relating to fraud. Identify areas where a pro-active approach, to identify potential Fraud, can be undertaken, and deliver this work.
- Review and maintain all relevant SSFSL and SSL Fraud, Whistleblowing and other relevant policies and procedures.

What you’ll bring:

- Experience of conducting a Fraud Investigation and of delivering and reviewing Fraud Risk Assessments
- Ideally knowledge of financial services within a Financial Conducted Authority regulated sector, if not then experience of working withing a regulated industry.
- Experience of evidence gathering, including maintaining chain of custody and integrity of information evidence and intelligence.
- Experience of conducting interviews with witnesses, third parties and those suspected of being involved in Fraud or other financial crime.
- Understanding of the three lines of defence model including separation of duties.
- Knowledge of GovS 013 standards and the Home Office guidance requirements under the Economic Crime & Corporate Transparency Act.
- Excellent communication
skills – both verbal and written – including writing of detailed reports
explaining findings.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if
your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply,
we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Location: Hybrid variable role requiring limited presence
in either our Blackpool, Durham, Newcastle, Glasgow or London offices.
Security Clearance Level: DV
Internal Recruiter: Adrian
Salary: Up to circa £45k depending on experience
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the option to buy
additional days, life assurance, pension and health cash plan scheme

Although this role is advertised as
full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance,
increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and
productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of
flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work
flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be
possible.
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creating innovative digital solutions to help clients drive their digital
transformation projects and secure tangible and sustainable benefits. We
harness the power of innovation to drive positive change in both business and
society, delivering sustainable growth and services which make life better,
from effective frontline citizen services, to digitising financial services,
utilities, and delivering smarter roads.

We place people at the heart of everything we do and are
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The personal information we have collected from you will be
shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest
conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are
detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal
information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how
your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights,
can be found by [https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn].