Deputy Director Large Business

As Deputy Director you will be one of the most senior tax leaders in the Department and will play a key part in leading delivery of high-quality tax compliance outcomes, both within the directorate, and also working alongside colleagues across HMRC. In addition, as part of HMRC’s senior leadership in either the Midlands or North East and Yorkshire, the Deputy Director will be influential in moulding the future of the Department.  Therefore, alongside strong leadership skills, the role requires excellent stakeholder management and a broad tax technical understanding.

Each Deputy Director (DD) will be one of the most senior tax leaders in the Department and will play a key part in leading delivery of LB performance measures in line with the LB business plan, with colleagues within the directorate, but also working alongside colleagues across HMRC. Each DD will need to engage with CCG colleagues to influence and deliver cross-CCG initiatives and priorities.

Accountabilities:

• A member of the Large Business Leadership Team (LBLT), contributing to the corporate and collective leadership of the directorate; developing, determining and leading LB strategic direction.
• Leading either the LB Midlands or North East and Yorkshire region, setting the strategic, inclusive cultural and behavioural direction to deliver LB objectives.
• As one of the department’s senior leaders, inspire people and help to build an inclusive culture within our regional centres and create a great place for all of our people to work.
• Play an active role as a senior leader in LB and across HMRC, setting strategic direction, driving innovation, leading capability building and taking specific responsibility for an LBLT portfolio.
• Ensure resources are deployed flexibly and effectively, in line with the highest priority risks and, working with other areas of LB, balance priorities effectively.
• Overall management responsibility for all LB colleagues in their region, approx. 300-350 in each.
• Direct peer management of SCS (PB1) Deputy Directors who have responsibility for key compliance work within LB and across CCG.
• Manage regional delivery, finances and budget, ensuring appropriate governance and cost control.
• Resolve significant, sensitive or potentially high-profile complaints and other compliance issues, using judgment and experience to handle swiftly and carefully.

We are looking for someone with a passion for developing colleagues and leaders of the future, promoting an empowering and inclusive culture that gives their teams space and authority to deliver and rewards innovation and initiative.

Essential Criteria:

• Excellent leadership skills with the ability to deliver stretching objectives through nurturing and building capability within teams and motivating and inspiring the team and delivery partners.
• Experience of formulating, leading and implementing strategies, policies and programmes which cross organisational boundaries.
• 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 and influencing skills to engage confidently in a wide range of situations at all levels of our organisation.
• 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.

Desirable Criteria:

• Tax and Compliance experience of working on the most challenging and complex tax technical issues, and the ability to quickly develop an understanding of the Large Business operating model.

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.

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.

Job contact :

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

Recruitment team

• Email : scs.resourcing@hmrc.gov.uk