Assistant Director Large Business – Tax Compliance and Dispute Resolution

Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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 HMRC’s relationship with some of the UK’s 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 department’s 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.

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.

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.

This role requires you to hold at least one of the following 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)

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

Alongside your salary of £75,000, HM Revenue and Customs contributes
£20,250 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.
• 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.

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.

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Job contact :

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

Recruitment team

• Email : scs.resourcing@hmrc.gov.uk