Counter Fraud Senior Operational Leaders

During Covid-19, the government supported over 1.5m businesses with loans through the Bounce Back Loan Scheme (BBLS), supporting lending of over £46bn.

The goal of the Covid 19 counter-fraud enforcement team is to minimise the government's loss from fraud arising in that book - either through prosecution of businesses and individuals or by the threat of such action forming a deterrent to such fraudulent behaviour.

We do this by using analytics to identify potentially fraudulent BBLS transactions, triaging those to determine those where enforcement may be the appropriate mechanism, investigating using powers under POCA and PACE, and then passing files for prosecution to the CPS.

We are recruiting two Counter Fraud Senior Operational Leaders to support the delivery of the enforcement element of the counter-fraud strategy for the Covid debt schemes.

These roles will report to the G6 Head of Enforcement Fraud.

Management of the (originally) c. £46bn BBLS portfolio is a key priority for the department, with a particular focus on fraud in the BBLS scheme where significant amounts of public money are at stake. Our counter-fraud strategy aims to reduce loss to the taxpayer through working with lenders, law enforcement and data analytics experts.

These posts are for an experienced Counter Fraud Senior Operational Leader to lead a part of DBTs operational counter-fraud delivery.

As an Operational leader the post-holder will be overseeing counter-fraud resourcing and delivery, both in-house and with delivery partners.

These roles will focus heavily on ensuring effective delivery of criminal and civil investigations which make up a key part of DBT's response to COVID-19 fraud, both in house and through managed contracts with third parties. As such, detailed experience of leading fraud investigations (either law enforcement or in the public sector) is a key essential criteria, as is experience of working within internal/external stakeholders and driving Performance. Effective contract management experience is desirable.