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As senior leaders in Large Business, Assistant Directors play a key role in leadership within the region. Assistant Directors are peer led by the Regional Deputy Director, the successful candidate will provide technical, strategic and corporate leadership across the region, Large Business as a whole and the wider HMRC.
The role also involves effectively delivering the Large Business customer strategy by leading HMRCs relationship with some of the UKs largest and most sophisticated business customers who are prominent, household names. This responsibility spans across all taxes and duties ensuring that the right amount is paid at the right time. Our Assistant Directors lead all aspects of the departments interaction with these customers significant UK operations, their very large tax/duties payments, large multi-national aspects, frequent politically sensitive issues and frequent large-scale mergers and acquisitions. As well as working with individual businesses, our Assistant Directors are also responsible for leading significant national projects that cover a large number of customers across multi-layered customer groups, or specific risk themes.
Job description
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 HMRCs 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 HMRCs values to make Large Business a great place to work and feel confident were 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.
Essential 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)
- Tax professional learning and CPD ensuring up to date and share expertise with HMRC colleagues
Benefits
- 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 Kings 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.
- Use of onsite facilities (where applicable).
- Occupational sick pay.
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Selection process details
All Criminal Record Checks applications are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.
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 both documents contain your full name.
If you encounter any issues with your application or dont receive an acknowledgement within 48 hours, please contact sarah.huckle@hmrc.gov.uk
Guaranteed Interview Schemes
Candidates applying under the Disability Confidence Scheme are guaranteed an interview if they meet the minimum criteria outlined in the person specification.
This scheme works in conjunction with the Great Place to Work for Veterans, for former members of the armed services, and the Redeployment Interview Scheme for existing Civil Servants at risk of redundancy. Each scheme works in the same way.
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 18th September 2023 and a shortlist decision is expected to be made by 29th September 2023. All candidates will be notified of the outcome shortly afterwards.
All shortlisted candidates will be offered an opportunity to have an informal conversation with the vacancy holder, Vicky Topps. This is not an assessment phase but is an opportunity for each candidate to gain greater insight into the context of the role. This is optional, but highly recommended.
Use of Data
As part of the recruitment process, we may share your data and assessment results internally with our SCS Talent team.
This will provide insight into how to support your development and wider talent management, should you be successful in your application.
If you do not want your data to be shared please email sarah.huckle@hmrc.gov.uk
Assessments:
If shortlisted for interview, you will be asked to take part in an Individual Leadership Assessment (ILA).
Assessments dont result in a pass or fail decision. Rather, they are designed to support the panels 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 16th October 2023 and will be held in person at our Nottingham Regional Centre (full instructions will be issued prior to interview).
Regardless of the outcome, we will notify all candidates as soon as possible once all interviews have concluded.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Sarah Hawes
- Email : sarah.huckle@hmrc.gov.uk
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- Email : sarah.huckle@hmrc.gov.uk
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