Inspiring careers
When you join us, you’ll help play a vital role in our mission to protect the economy. Every year, we return millions of pounds to creditors, provide millions in support for people in financial distress, and investigate millions of pounds lost to financial crime. All our colleagues contribute to our mission to deliver economic confidence, from office managers to administrative assistants.
We offer a wide range of rewarding roles. No matter where you work best – whether up front helping customers, or behind the scenes with computers – we offer interesting and engaging work that makes a real difference to people every day.
Across the organisation, you’ll encounter friendly, welcoming faces. We’re proud that our teams draw on a diverse range of experiences and backgrounds. We welcome all perspectives and believe diversity is one of our core strengths.
We’re interested in your behaviours and ability, not your previous job title. You may be working in a similar role already – we welcome applications from other civil servants. Or you could have transferrable skills or experiences that will help us, even if insolvency is new to you. If you’re looking to change career, try something new, or move into the Civil Service, we’d love to hear from you.
More about our roles
We work in six key operating groups. Each group has a director and senior leadership team. The six groups are made up of smaller teams, and every team contributes to our success as an agency.
Find out more about the roles of our teams, and how we work together to protect the UK economy.
Insolvency
The Insolvency team deals with personal bankruptcies and company liquidations. No two days in Insolvency are the same, as every case is unique.
Our examiners are responsible for administering and investigating insolvency cases. That means tracking down assets and making returns to creditors. They need an eye for detail and the confidence to ask difficult questions.
Our deputy Official Receivers provide senior oversight.
Our Official Receivers play a vital role as court-appointed office holders, acting as trustee or liquidator. They help protect the economy by professionally handling bankruptcies and company liquidation cases.
Our Insolvency team roles include:
- administrative officers
- analysts
- tracers
- examiners
- office managers
- official receivers
Enforcement
Our Enforcement group includes Investigation Services and Legal Services. They deal with thousands of interesting cases every year.
We take civil and criminal action to tackle corporate misconduct and financial wrongdoing, and have a range of powers to investigate companies and individuals.
The team helps secure criminal and civil sanctions, including confiscation and compensation orders.
The group includes a mix of investigators, lawyers, administrators and cyber-crime experts. They work together to root out wrongdoing and bring bad actors to justice.
Typical roles in the Enforcement group include:
- investigators
- lawyers
- intelligence officers
- paralegals
- business support
Corporate and Operational Services
The Corporate and Operational group is the heartbeat of the agency.
The group includes the Redundancy Payment Service, Adjudicator’s office and payment protection insurance teams, change professionals, technology specialists, and property experts who deliver enhancements to our estate, ensure our physical safety and the sustainability of the agency.
Data is a big part of the agency, and this group has cyber security and information governance teams. Many of the agency’s significant technology contracts are managed by the service governance team.
There are several operational delivery opportunities at both administrative and leadership levels.
Typical roles in Corporate and Operational group include:
- project managers
- project support officers
- applications architects
- information technology contract managers
- product managers
- operational support
Governance, Policy and Insight
The Governance, Policy and Insight group helps shape the insolvency landscape. They have an influential role in the agency, and with our partners.
They provide policy and technical advice, governance, and help deliver our strategy. They track our progress against our targets and report on our performance.
They provide regulatory oversight, and manage our statutory frameworks.
They also brief ministers, and publish statistics and research via GOV.UK. They help coordinate our work across Government and with our partner organisations.
Our Governance, Policy and Insight roles include::
- policy advisors
- technical advisers
- regulatory officers
- strategy managers
- analysts
- data engineers
People and Communications
Our people teams help colleagues grow and thrive. They develop policies, manage pay and rewards, support capability-building and they lead recruitment – helping people join, develop, and succeed in their careers with us.
The communications team issues the right messages to inspire the behaviours and actions needed to deliver our goals. We regularly work with the media, our stakeholders, and our people.
Our user-centred design team helps us understand our customers. They use evidence and feedback to improve our services and communications. They have content design, user research, and customer insight skills.
Across all our areas, you’ll find welcoming teams, varied career paths, and plenty of ways to develop your skills.
Typical roles include:
- human resources business partner
- recruitment officer
- casework adviser
- customer insight specialist
- capability manager
- communications business partner
Finance and Commercial
Our Finance and Commercial teams are fundamental to making our agency a great place to work.
Our vital roles include strategic planning, producing our annual report, managing risk, and financial forecasting. We put great commercial practices at the heart of decision-making to procure goods and services that deliver value to the taxpayer.
You will find great career paths in Finance and Commercial, with lots of opportunities for you to develop your skills.
Typical roles include:
- finance business partner
- cost centre manager
- estate income and system accountants
- commercial business partner
- commercial business analyst
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