So where does Fraudjobs.co.uk fit into this?
To address fraud in many of these sectors, there has been a renewed focus upon developing fraud strategy, preventing and deterring fraud, identifying, investigating, and of course prosecuting fraud.

This has seen several public sector areas take ‘the bull by the horns’ and recruit, develop and evolve fraud and investigations teams. This is particularly noticeable within local authorities and in the DSS where recruitment has been rapid. The private sector is the same, where the banking sector has had fraud departments for many years, the insurance sector is now rapidly catching up as specialist teams quickly evolve. The gap is also being filled with many more professionals with fraud units that support public and private sector businesses with fraud services.

At fraudjobs.co.uk the quality of candidates has been improving quickly, the number of roles is constantly increasing and the skills’ requirement of each job has gradually been increasing over the last three years. Martin Jerrold at fraud jobs says “It is an exciting time, as the number of roles keeps growing, as the specialist provider of fraud skills in the market, it means that we can contribute to the maturing of the ‘fraud trade’ “.

In looking for fraud specialists, fraudjobs.co.uk recommends: -

• Use the right partner to help you in your search – i.e. a specialist recruiter is more likely to get to the candidates that you will want to see.
• Consider whether you need to buy in the skills full-time, part-time or indeed to use a third party specialist for a particular review or task.
• Interview candidates and if you like them always take up references – there would be nothing worse than having a fraudulent fraud specialist!
• Make sure that you know what type of fraud specialist you need as there are many. We see fraud auditor. Forensic accountants, fraud transaction screeners, internal (corporate fraud) investigators, fraud rules and decision-system experts, fraud policy/strategy developers, interviewing specialists, compliance specialists, fraud product marketers; or combinations of these and many others.
• Establish how much you want or need  to pay – As the ‘trade’ develops and grows and as there is competition for the right people out there, we have seen salaries rising in some areas, but falling in others. If you let fraudjobs.co.uk know what you want the team can help you with this.
• Is this appointment your complete solution of a stepping stone to building a fraud team that can keep saving you more and more money? If this is your first fraud appointee, they should be someone who is able to both find fraud for you AND be able to start to measure the extent of the problem and then sell the solutions for dealing with this to you.