Deputy Director Large Business Tax Compliance

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of customers and their business drivers, including attitudes to risk and compliance, influencing their thinking and approach to tax.
• Discuss, explore and resolve conceptual tax/tax planning issues; identifying and resolving any differences of the risk view between the business and HMRC, encouraging a 'low risk' approach.
• Carefully lead complex, sensitive and potentially challenging reputational issues. Lead large scale national projects across customer groups, sectors or risk themes to deliver great compliance outcomes.
• Ringmaster communications and interventions, including appropriately involving HMRC's specialists, ensuring successful delivery of outcomes.
• Active membership of the regional senior leadership team supporting performance delivery and creation of an inclusive, diverse and professional culture.
• Role model Our Commitments and live HMRC's values to make Large Business a great place to work and feel confident we're doing the best for our customers.
• Ensure CPD is up to date and share expertise with HMRC colleagues.

Person specification

The successful candidate will have recent experience of complex tax compliance or working in a complex compliance-based environment

Essential Criteria:

• Experience of providing visible leadership to support long term strategies, with a proven ability to develop a motivated, engaged and robust workforce and a dedication to diversity and inclusion.
• Experience of formulating, leading and implementing strategies, policies and programmes which cross service or professional boundaries.
• Able to handle effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders at senior level, strong collaboration and influencing skills to build an effective network of key partners quickly.
• Strong customer service ethos and focus on delivery with the ability to respond quickly to changing circumstances and tight timescales as priorities evolve and advance.

Qualifications
Core Professional Training or be 'Fully Trained' Inspectors or Chartered Tax Adviser, AIIT (Including Paper 4*) or CCAB or a Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies membership qualification e.g. Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales (ICAEW), Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland (ICAS), Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountancy (CIPFA) or, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
or

Tax professional learning and CPD - ensuring up to date and share expertise with HMRC colleagues

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £76,000, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £22,017 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

As a Civil Service employee, you'll be entitled to a large range of benefits.

This includes:

• 25 days annual leave on entry, increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years' service. This is in addition to your public holidays.
• This will be complemented by one further day paid privilege entitlement to mark the King's Birthday.
• Interest-free loans allowing you to spread the cost of an annual travel season ticket or a new bicycle.
• Flexible working patterns and access to Flexible Working Schemes allowing you to vary your working day as long as you work your total hours.
• A competitive contributory pension scheme that you can enter as soon as you join and where we will make a significant contribution to the cost of your pension. Your contribution comes out of your salary before any tax is taken and will continue to provide valuable benefits for you and your family if you are too ill to continue to work or die before you retire.
• Generous paid maternity and paternity leave which is notably more than the statutory minimum offered by many other employers.
• Use of onsite facilities (where applicable).
• Occupational sick pay.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

Application:

To apply for this post, you will need to complete an online application by submitting a CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements.

Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years. The panel will assess the experience shown in your CV against the essential criteria in the person specification.

By not submitting a CV covering your experience and previous roles we will only have limited information to assess your application against the person specification. Please ensure the document contains your full name.

Shortlist

An application pre-sift will be conducted by the SCS Recruitment Team followed by an in-depth review by the Vacancy Holder and Panel.

The panel will assess and select applicants who demonstrate the best fit with the role by considering the evidence provided against the criteria set out in the Person Specification. Failure to address any or all of these may affect your application. The closing date for applications is 2nd December 2024 and a shortlist decision is expected to be made by 20th December 2024. All candidates will be notified of the outcome shortly afterwards.

Assessments:

If shortlisted for interview, you will be asked to take part in an Individual Leadership Assessment (ILA).

Assessments don't result in a pass or fail decision. Rather, they are designed to support the panel's decision making and highlight areas for further exploration at interview.

Full details of the assessment process will be made available to candidates if shortlisted for interview.

We will send you a copy of any report for any assessment that you may have undergone as part of the recruitment process (where applicable).

Interview:

You will be asked to attend an interview for a more in-depth discussion of your previous experience and professional competence.

We will also ask you to prepare a 5-minute verbal presentation. Details will be issued in advance of your interview.

Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 20th January 2025 and will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams.

Regardless of the outcome, we will notify all candidates as soon as possible once all interviews have concluded.

All Criminal Record Checks applications are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.

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

This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

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 : Sarah Hawes
• Email : scs.resourcing@hmrc.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : scs.resourcing@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 a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles. In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly with the department concerned. 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 web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitment/complaints/

Attachments
Deputy Director Large Business Tax Compliance - Candidate Pack Opens in new window (pdf, 1257kB)