If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives, the Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate across government to promote responsible public spending and drive strong and sustainable economic growth!

About the Team

HM Treasury implements financial sanctions in the UK, and Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) fulfils this role on its behalf. It leads on the implementation of UN and UK financial sanctions and domestic terrorist asset freezing, providing a high-quality service to the industry and guidance to help them follow the law. OFSI works closely with law enforcement, intelligence agencies and policy colleagues across Government, to help ensure that financial sanctions are accurately understood, implemented and enforced.

OFSI is a diverse and dynamic team of over 100 people, from a variety of backgrounds and professions. We offer an outstanding environment to broaden your experience and develop new skills, whilst working on some of the highest profile international issues the UK faces. We strongly support a good work-life balance and flexible working is actively encouraged.

OFSI colleagues can be involved in a wide range of activities and can get to meet many different people and organisations.

This role will be for a short term compliance monitoring project.

About the Job

In this role, key responsibilities will include:

Lead your own caseload of serious, complex or high-profile reporting cases ensuring they are reviewed and closed or advanced to the Enforcement unit accordingly.
Effectively manage the performance and development of two compliance monitoring officers, making sure that they meet their individual and collective objectives and targets of the team.
Develop and maintain data analysis tools to lead, summarise and present licensing reporting information, in an understandable and usable format for internal and external partners.
Maintain up to date knowledge of developments in licence drafting policy and enforcement strategy, apply and pass on this knowledge as appropriate.
Responsible for coordinating and quality assuring responses to external data requests into the team within specified timescales.
Support on work to put in place new tools and processes for building a picture of the scale of non-compliance in licensing reporting and work with colleagues across OFSI to devise proactive outreach and engagement activity.

About You

We are recruiting for four roles in the Compliance Monitoring team, within the Enforcement unit in the Treasury’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation. These are roles that will provide opportunities for the post-holder to be creative and innovative as we look to make changes to further strengthen our compliance monitoring processes and practices.

We are looking for people who have a good attention to detail and a structured approach to managing their work, who have the right set of skills for the role. They will be able to demonstrate the positive values of our organisation, and an ability to quickly develop an understanding of a technical and sensitive operational policy area and an ability to distil complex information clearly and concisely. No previous experience of this type of work is required with training to be provided – just a keen interest in the role and a willingness to learn.

HM Treasury is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We know that having a range of experiences, ways of working and thinking makes us a stronger organisation, better at developing policy that is reflective of the communities we serve. We embrace different views and experiences and value the fresh perspective that people from a variety of circumstances bring to the work we do. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

· 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 days after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing you to take up to an additional 2 days off each month.

· Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, compressed hours).

· Generous parental leave and adoption leave packages.

· A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%

· Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances.

· A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help meet the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes.

· Access to HM Treasury’s benefits portal allowing you access to a range of discount codes for online shopping.

· A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity