Finance Director – Customer Compliance Group

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is one of the UK’s largest employers, with over 66,000 employees across the country. We are responsible for collecting taxes from individuals and businesses; over £814bn last year. The money we collect in tax pays for our public services and helps to fund schools, hospitals, build roads and public buildings, and support communities.

We also protect the workforce by enforcing minimum wage and we look after those in need by administering a range of benefits including child benefit, tax-free childcare, statutory pay, and tax credits.

With more than twenty-seven thousand staff, bringing in tens of billions of pounds of tax that would otherwise go unpaid, our Customer Compliance Group is one of the biggest delivery units in government. CCG’s role is to help safeguard a tax system that relies on public trust. Taxpayers, rightly, want to know we will step in to enforce the rules where necessary, creating a level playing field for individuals and businesses. The quality of our customers’ experience is vital in helping us to build trust – as is our ability to recognise the personal circumstances that sometimes lie behind unpaid tax. Our aim is to work with customers promptly and professionally, so we can get them back on the right track

Reporting to the Director General of the Customer Compliance Group, the FD will be responsible for overseeing all finance and accounting activity within a directorate of over 280 staff. They will operate as a member of the CCG’s senior leadership team and work closely with senior stakeholders across HMRC and beyond, providing sound advice on finance, governance, and risk. Pivotal in this is their role as a key member of the Chief Financial Officer’s finance network.   Alongside this, the FD CCG will play a key role in transformation activities, acting as a financial subject matter expert, as HMRC transitions into a more digital, more automated organisation.

This role will suit a qualified accountant (CCAB, CIMA, ACA, ACCA or equivalent) with a successful track record as a senior financial leader within an organisation of significant scale and complexity and experience of operating as part of a senior leadership team.  The role demands the ability to see the bigger picture, contributing to wider strategy and corporate development, and to optimising business delivery.  Likewise, the successful candidate will bring a substantial track record of supporting complex transformational change. 

This is an exciting opportunity to operate at the heart of government, working with stakeholders at the most senior levels and play a key role in building a modern HMRC that is crucial to the UK’s economic progress.  

At HMRC we are committed to creating a great place to work; a diverse, inclusive, and vibrant organisation, where everyone is supported and valued. 

We want to maximise the potential of everyone who chooses to work for us, and we offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make a fulfilling career at HMRC accessible to all. 

We welcome applications from all people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role. 

For further information about the role and to download the candidate pack, please go to https://micro.green-park.co.uk/hmrc-fd/how-to-apply/

Whatever 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 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 : Katie Faulkner
• Email : Katie.faulkner@green-park.co.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Katie.faulkner@green-park.co.uk