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Conduct a fraud risk assessment of the grants acquittal process

You are the Risk and Integrity Adviser in Corporate Services.

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The situation

What has happened

Two events have unsettled the audit and risk committee: an acquittal irregularity at Wimmera Community Transport where supplier invoices appear duplicated across two grants, and an internal audit finding of undeclared conflicts among regional assessors. The committee has asked for a fresh fraud risk assessment of the grants acquittal process before its October meeting. The fraud and corruption control plan commits the department to verify a sample of acquittals and to introduce payment analytics, but the analytics tool is still in evaluation. Theo Lindqvist, the fraud control officer, wants the process mapped, the risks rated, treatments proposed and the risks entered in the register.

Your brief. Map the acquittal process from final payment to verification, identify where a false or inflated claim could pass undetected, rate each fraud risk before and after existing controls, propose proportionate treatments with owners and dates, enter the risks in the risk register and write a short report the fraud control officer can table at the committee.
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Tasks

Deliverables

  • Acquittal process map with control points
  • Fraud risk assessment table with ratings before and after controls
  • Treatment plan with owners, costs and dates
  • Risk register entries
  • Committee report

Documents to use

Systems to use

Risk, Incident and Security Register

Holds enterprise and program risks, fraud risks, security and privacy incidents and WHS incidents with ratings, treatments, owners and due dates.

Grants Register

Records every grant application from receipt through assessment, decision, funding agreement, payment and acquittal across the four programs.

Compliance and Investigations Register

Tracks inspections, complaints about providers, incident reports and investigations with risk rating, officer and compliance action.

For trainers and assessors

Units of competency

Current on training.gov.au for the Public Sector Training Package as at 10 September 2026.

PSPFRU005Conduct fraud risk assessments
PSPFRU007Implement fraud control activities
PSPGEN134Coordinate risk management
PSPFRU013Anticipate and detect possible fraud activity
PSPGEN143Prepare high-level written communication

Qualifications

PSP50716Diploma of Fraud Control
PSP50122Diploma of Government
Assessor notes

What to look for

Evidence guide

The process map should show real control points and gaps, and the risk ratings should be consistent with the matrix and explained. Treatments should be proportionate and specific, not generic, and should reference the analytics procurement and the declaration changes already under way. The committee report must be concise, lead with what is being asked, and be classified correctly. Look for evidence the student used the Wimmera case to test the controls.

The student's evidence summary lists every record they created or changed in the systems named above, their notes and the tasks they ticked. Verify it against the deliverables and your own assessment tool.