Senior Compliance Monitoring Officer

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 and beyond 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.
About the Job
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 roles 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.
Key responsibilities will include:
Manage your own caseload of reporting cases making sure that they are reviewed and closed or escalated to the enforcement unit accordingly.
Develop and maintain data analysis tools to manage, summarise and present licensing reporting information.
Maintain up to date knowledge of developments in licence drafting policy and enforcement strategy.
Engage with colleagues across OFSI on good practice for setting reporting conditions providing feedback as needed.
Responsible for overseeing 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 to devise proactive outreach and engagement activity.
Line management of two direct reports.
About You
We are looking for people who have an attention to detail and a structured approach to managing their work, who demonstrate the values of our organisation, and who can demonstrate an ability to quickly develop an understanding of a technical and sensitive area and an ability to distil complex information clearly and concisely.
About Us
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 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 employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month
Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
Generous parental and adoption leave packages
Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 27%
Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity (e.g. women in the Treasury, ethnic minority network, LGBT* network, faith and belief network)
For more information about the Treasury, role, salary, benefits, who to contact and how to apply please follow the Apply link.
If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk