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LocationLeeds, Newcastle-upon-TyneAbout the jobSummaryLarge Business is responsible for HMRC's compliance work with the largest and most complex business customers, businesses which account for some 40% of HMRC's annual revenues.
Our strategy is applied to the UK's 2,000 most complex businesses, which have each been allocated a Customer Compliance Manager (CCM) reflecting our resource intensive, cooperative compliance approach. Using this approach we subject these businesses to an exceptional level of scrutiny and are actively investigating more than half of them at any one time.
This is an exciting and challenging time to be part of Large Business. The taxation of multinationals remains the focus of keen media and Parliamentary interest. We are in the process of implementing a package of measures to increase large business tax compliance and transparency, including the legislative changes flowing from the OECD-led base erosion and profit shifting agenda. In addition we have recently implemented our new enhanced approach to risk assessment.
Large Business is fully engaged with HMRC's transformation programmes which will provide opportunities to build our compliance capabilities. You will play a key role in influencing and implementing these changes. Large Business is currently organised into six regions and two specialist teams, each headed by an SCS PB1 Deputy Director who with the Director of Large Business form the Large Business Leadership Team (LBLT).Job descriptionAs senior leaders in Large Business, Assistant Directors play a key role in leadership within the region and you will be one of the most senior tax professionals in the Department. The role therefore requires strong leadership skills, excellent stakeholder management and a broad tax technical background.
You will provide technical, strategic and corporate leadership across the region, Large Business as a whole and the wider HMRC.
Assistant Directors manage HMRC's relationship with the UK's largest and most complex business customers who are high profile, household names.
This involves overseeing the department's interaction with their significant customer operations, their very large tax/duties payments, large multi-national aspects, frequent politically sensitive issues and regular large scale mergers and acquisitions.
These customers also have a tendency to push avoidance boundaries and use novel tax-engineering transactions.
Assistant Directors also lead on specific tax or wider leadership issues across the Directorate or the wider Department.
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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.
- Ensure CPD is up to date and share expertise with HMRC colleagues.
- Ringmaster communications and interventions, including appropriately involving HMRC's specialists, ensuring successful delivery of outcomes.
- Active member 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.
- Coach and mentor Customer Compliance Managers and tax professional colleagues, building capability and troubleshooting complex cases.
- Support and deliver corporate objectives and initiatives within Large Business, Customer Compliance Group and HMRC.ResponsibilitiesAs senior leaders in Large Business, Assistant Directors play a key role in leadership, building technical capability, engagement and facilitating change.
You will be able to demonstrate:
- Leadership - Experience of providing visible leadership to support long term strategies, with a proven ability to develop a motivated, engaged and high performing workforce and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Strategic awareness - Experience of formulating, leading and implementing strategies, policies and programmes which cross organisational boundaries.
- Communicating and influencing - The ability to manage effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders at senior level, strong collaboration and influencing skills to build an effective network of key stakeholders quickly. Excellent communication skills to engage confidently in a wide range of situations.
- Delivering at Pace - Strong customer service ethos and focus on delivery with the ability to respond quickly to changing circumstances and tight timescales as priorities evolve and escalate issues for resolution.
- Specialist knowledge and experience - Recent compliance experience of working on the most challenging and complex tax technical issues.
- Academic/Professional Qualifications - The post requires the individual to have either:
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), Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).QualificationsThe post requires the individual to have either:
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), Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).BenefitsWhatever your role, we take your career and development seriously, and want to enable you to build a successful career with the department and wider Civil Service.
It is crucial that our employees have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead, and you'll benefit from regular performance and development reviews to ensure this development is ongoing.
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 Queen's Birthday.
- Interest-free loans allowing you to spread the cost of an annual travel season ticket or a new bicycle.
- 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.
- Flexible working patterns and access to Flexible Working Schemes allowing you to vary your working day as long as you work your total hours.
- Generous paid maternity and paternity leave which is notably more than the statutory minimum offered by many other employers.
- The use onsite facilities (where applicable).
- Occupational sick pay.Things you need to knowSecuritySuccessful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.Selection process detailsTo apply for this post, you will need to complete an online application by submitting the following:
A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements (no longer than two pages). Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years.
A Statement of Suitability (no longer than 1250 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the criteria in the person specification.
Please ensure that your CV and Statement of Suitability do not include your name. Failure to submit a CV and a Statement of Suitability will mean we only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
• relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
• certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

Further information on nationality requirementsWorking for the Civil ServiceThe Civil Service Code 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.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.Apply and further informationThis vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment.Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.Contact point for applicantsJob contact :

• Name : Sarah Hawes
• Email : sarah.huckle@hmrc.gov.uk

Recruitment team :

• Email : sarah.huckle@hmrc.gov.uk

Further informationAppointment 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/
DetailsReference number 217437 Salary71,000GBPGradeSCS Pay Band 1Contract typePermanentBusiness areaHMRC - CCG - Large BusinessType of roleOperational Delivery
Senior leadership
Tax ProfessionWorking patternFlexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-timeNumber of posts1