This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic, high performing team within Large Business.

You will be expected to provide key technical input to the risk identification and risk working in Large Business customers in the Banking and Asset Management sectors.

Key Responsibilities

G6 CT Tax Professionals will be required to work closely with Customer Compliance Managers and Tax Professional Managers to identify and progress our most complex and technically challenging risks by:
• Using your technical knowledge and skills to lead the risk assessment work on our most complex and risky customers
• Leading and developing the approach in our most technically challenging enquiries, and taking these forward directly or through others
• Taking complex and contentious issues through HMRC's governance framework to resolution at tribunal or by agreement in accordance with the department's Litigation and Settlement Strategy
• Acting as a consultant, providing technical advice and support to less experienced colleagues in their more difficult cases
• Understanding the commercial factors influencing a business's tax compliance and building customer focus into projects and compliance checks undertaken
• Representing Large Business in key discussions with the customer, big four advisors, governance panels, policy colleagues, solicitors and Counsel.

You will also play an active role in developing our approach to compliance in the region by:
• Actively supporting LB London's CT Regime Leader and CT Steering Group (which sets the CT Regime's strategy) to improve the region's direct tax compliance strategy and compliance processes, helping to drive forward national risks and priorities
• Promote the range of compliance responses to emerging risks, including upstream and one to many approaches. Working with key stakeholders to develop the most efficient approach to addressing risk
• Contributing to an improvement in compliance quality, ensuring quality of your own work and that of colleagues:
- adheres to HMRC policy and procedures
- leads to resolution within the Litigation and Settlement Strategy governance
- adheres to the compliance professional standards
• Providing technical coaching and mentoring to develop people within your own team or across the Region
• Training others by sharing your knowledge of the Banking and Asset Management sectors across all tax regimes at sector and regime forums and other training events.

There are no direct line management responsibilities.

Person specification

The successful candidate will work on tax risks within some of the UK's largest and most complex customers, which bring with it wider leadership responsibilities. These may include representing HMRC at meetings with industry bodies, ensuring HMRC operational and policy messages are aligned and delivered effectively and acting as a leader and role model within LB's CT community helping to improve the region's direct tax compliance strategy and compliance processes.

The prospective candidate will need to demonstrate:
• Proven leadership of complex compliance risks in a direct tax environment
• The ability to interpret complex legislation and apply tax knowledge to identify and drive forward complex tax risks and avoidance risks, taking these through to completion in a timely and effective manner
• That they can build and maintain relationships with complex customers and other key internal and external stakeholders
• The ability to act as a consultant, providing technical advice and support to less experienced colleagues in their more difficult cases
• That they can use their experience, technical expertise and knowledge to improve our compliance processes, provide feedback, and build capability in others.

Essential Criteria:

The successful candidate will have:
• Recent experience of leadership in a corporation tax compliance, tax policy or tax advisory role. This could have been gained within HMRC, private practice or in house
• Recent compliance experience working on the most complex corporation tax issues.

Qualifications

You should hold one or more of the following qualifications:
• Chartered Institute of Tax (CTA) or Management Accountants (CIMA);
• Advanced Diploma in International Tax (ADIT);
• HMRC's TSP or predecessor qualification (TPDP, IDP, ITS2, CPT, FT2);
• Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies membership qualification (such as ICAEW, ICAS, CAI, ACCA, CIPFA,) or overseas equivalent;
• Postgraduate legal qualification.

Desirable Criteria:

Recent experience of compliance working in the Banking or Asset Management sector is desirable but not essential as training will be provided.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions
• Developing Self and Others

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• In addition we will assess your experience and Technical knowledge in Corporation Tax work by reference to a question (asked in a similar style to the behaviours) based on: The 'Tax Competency Framework: Application of Tax Knowledge (Level 3)'

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £75,950, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £22,002 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs.

We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues' Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.

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Things you need to know

Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.

How to Apply

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:

• A name-blind CV including your job history and previous roles and experiences. Your CV should cover the roles you have held up to your last five roles (no more than 1000 words in total). Your CV will be scored against the experience required outlined in the advert.
• A 1000-word Personal Statement. Your Personal Statement should be used to describe how your skills and experience would be suitable for the advertised role, making reference to the Essential Criteria, Key Responsibilities and Person Specification outlined in the advert.

Please complete a separate statement (Max 250 words) for the Desirable Criteria where applicable. This is not essential for the role but may be considered by the vacancy-holder where candidates have the same scores at sift or interview.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

We acknowledge that AI can assist you in your application. Find our guidelines here.

Sift

In the event of a large number of applications being received, an initial sift may be held on the CV.

At full sift your CV and your Personal Statement will be assessed, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.

We may also raise the score required at any stage of the process if we receive a high number of applications.

Interview

During the panel interview, you will be asked questions based on the Behaviours listed below to explore in detail what you are capable of.
• Leadership
• Making Effective Decisions
• Developing Self and Others

You will also be asked strength-based questions to also explore what you enjoy and your motivations relevant to the job role.

This is an example of a strengths-based question:

"It is often said that the customer's needs should come first. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?"

There is no expectation or requirement for you to prepare for the strengths-based questions in advance of the interview, though you may find it helpful to spend some time reflecting on what you enjoy doing and what you do well.

In addition we will assess your experience and Technical knowledge in Corporation Tax work by reference to a question (asked in a similar style to the behaviours) based on:
• The 'Tax Competency Framework: Application of Tax Knowledge (Level 3)' - see attached document below for further information.

Interviews will take place via video link. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

Eligibility

Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. We understand mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days(Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we will not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form, please contact us via: unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk - Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example - 'Please re-open my application - [insert vacancy ref] & vacancy closing date [insert date]'.

To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before submitting your application .

Reserve List

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles - if this applies to you, we'll let you know via your Civil Service Jobs account.

Merit List

After interview, a single merit list will be created, and you will only be considered for posts in locations you have expressed a preference for. Appointments will be made in strict merit order in line with the set number of roles in each location.

Criminal Record Check

Applications received from candidates with a criminal record are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.

Reasonable Adjustments

We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

• Contact the UBS Recruitment team via unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the "Assistance required" section in the "Additional requirements" page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a Language Service Professional.

Important information for existing HMRC contractual homeworkers

This role may be suitable for existing HMRC employees who are contractual homeworkers. Occasional attendance to the office will be required where there is a business need. Please consider the advertised office locations for this role when applying and only select locations from the 'location preferences' section that you can travel to.

Terms and Conditions

Customer facing roles in HMRC require the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English and/or Welsh where required. Where this is an essential requirement, this will be tested as part of the selection process.

HMRC has a presence in every region of the UK. For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations .

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences.

Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant application(s) will be withdrawn from the process.

Recording of interviews is prohibited unless explicit agreement is sought in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulations.

Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant's details held on the IFD will be refused employment.

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

New entrants will join on the minimum of the pay band.

Please note that, if you are applying for roles on a part-time basis, the salary agreed will be pro-rata, reflective of the working hours agreed within your contract.

If you experience accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window) .

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Anthony Fawcett
• Email : anthony.c.fawcett@hmrc.gov.uk
• Telephone : 03000585911

Recruitment team

• Email : unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk

Further information
Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles. You have the right to complain if you feel there has been a breach of the Recruitment Principles.
In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly via ubsrecruitmentcomplaints@hmrc.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their website.

Attachments
Combined TC and OGD Pay English - July 2024 Opens in new window (pdf, 254kB) tax_competency_framework Opens in new window (pdf, 212kB)