Counter Fraud Manager

Location: King's Cross
Large Housing Association seeks a Counter Fraud Manager to lead and be responsible for all fraud, anti-money laundering and whistleblowing activities including agents’ activities and provide assurance to the Executive, Board and external parties or Regulators on these arrangements as required.

Responsibilities:

Lead the counter fraud team to detect and deal effectively with perpetrators of fraud, working in partnership with internal teams and external agencies to secure recovery of assets and unlawful profits and, as appropriate prosecution.

Develop strategy for preventing and detecting all types of fraud, train colleagues

across the business, and establish policies, procedures and controls to mitigate the risk of the organisation or its partners being the victim of financial crime.

Working with the Compliance Lead, under the oversight of the Chief Governance and

Risk Officer, you will develop new strategic Fraud Prevention and Detection Strategies to

identify and mitigate against online fraud, contractor fraud, money laundering activities

and all types of fraud.

You will develop, lead and manage the Counter Fraud Team to further develop good

practice, policies and procedures for dealing with all types of fraud, carrying out

investigations and fraud risk assessments across the business as required and establishing partnership arrangements with the police force and CPS to encourage criminal charging and law amendment.

You will work with in-house and external solicitors and partner agencies as

appropriate, you will identify and share good practice internally and with external

partners, prepare witness statements in relation to cases requiring legal action or

other activities to support the counter fraud and financial crime arrangements.

Skills and experience:

A Housing qualification or equivalent practical knowledge and experience of housing

management

Be ACFS or PinS qualified

ICA AML Officer Certified or equivalent

5 years or more of Fraud and Risk

Management experience and a proven track record of working in, leading, and managing

an investigative or enforcement team