HMRC - Senior Indirect Tax Specialist
HM Revenue and Customs
About the job
Job summary
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HMRC is the UK's tax, payments and customs authority.
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We are committed to crafting a phenomenal place to work for all our colleagues; an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve.
We want to improve the potential of everyone who chooses to be part of the HMRC family. We offer a range of flexible working patterns and support to make an exciting career at HMRC accessible to you.
Different perspectives and experiences are essential to our success, and we encourage applications from all people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role.
Job description
About our Team
Large Business (LB) is a directorate within Customer Compliance Group (CCG) in HMRC. LB is responsible for over 2,000 of the largest businesses in the UK, bringing in over £9bn in compliance yield per annum.
This an exciting time to join a fast paced, ambitious role in a technical and complex environment.
You will be welcomed into our specialist indirect tax team in Large Business in London where we mainly deal with financial services businesses.
As one of our Senior Indirect Tax Specialists, you will lead on some of our most high risk and sensitive interventions as well as coordinating and supporting cases being worked by other VAT specialists. Working closely with our Customer Compliance Managers and providing co-ordination and technical leadership across the whole of our regional VAT community.
Want to learn more about what an HMRC Senior Indirect Tax Specialist does?
or gain advice on the Recruitment or Application Process?
Speak to Alkis Michael or Dom Stewart who are both leaders within HMRC's Tax and Large Business Community to assist you with those queries around the role itself. Or speak to the Recruitment Partner for this role Matt Mickler while the role is live. Reach us all through specialistresourcingteamsrt@hmrc.gov.uk
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Person specification
Are you a Motivated Indirect Tax aficionado who thrives in deeply technical environments?
Do you challenge tax risks looking for resolution of complex issues through dispute resolution or litigation?
Are you a Subject Matter expert on wider Tax and Commercial issues across the Finance Sector able to tackle VAT risks and identify future ones?
Do you lead on tax disputes, able through partnering and collaboration with a range of stakeholders to reach desired outcomes?
Are you an inspiring leader, more than a bean counter or button pusher who can see the bigger picture, advocating and mentoring others as you improve on your craft?
If so, read on.....
- Providing technical and operational leadership in addressing the largest VAT risks in LB London, ensuring that they are worked in a project way.
- Influencing the strategic direction for the LB London’s VAT community.
- Leading on all aspects of high priority VAT enquiries, involving complex and often contentious issues, such as the interpretation of the finance exemption and the operation of multi-sector partial exemption methods used by global businesses.
- Supporting others in making considered, fully evidence-based decisions, in conjunction with a range collaborators and team members. Standing by and leading on your decisions in litigation when required.
- Coordinating the profiling and prioritisation of VAT risks in LB London, working with other tax specialists, Customer Compliance Managers, and others to ensure a unified approach.
- Coaching and Influencing others to a detailed level around indirect tax, proven by an appropriate professional qualification and/or considerable relevant experience.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £73,806, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £19,927 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
How to Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:
- A CV including your job history maximum of 1000-words.
Please provide your most recent and relevant experience on how you meet the "Person Specification" part of the advert with examples through your career experience. Please remove all personal details that may identify you or others.
Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. We understand mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we will not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake, please contact us via: ubsrecruitmentexcellence@hmrc.gov.uk – Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example – ‘Please re-open my application – [insert vacancy ref] & vacancy closing date [insert date]’
To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before submitting your application.
Sift
The sift will be based on the CV.
Interview
Candidates successful at sift will proceed to an Interview. They will be required to deliver their own created brief presentation, which should demonstrate their technical awareness. Full details will be provided on the expectations of this in good time within the invitation to interview.
Interviews will take place via video link. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles – if this applies to you, we’ll let you know via your Civil Service Jobs account.
After interview, a single merit list will be created, and appointments will be made in strict merit order until the set demand is filled in each location. If successful, you will be informed which locations are available when we reach your position on the merit list.
Applications received from candidates with a criminal record are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.
Reasonable Adjustments
We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:
- Contact the UBS Recruitment Excellence Team via ubsrecruitmentexcellence@hmrc.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
Diversity and Inclusion
At HMRC we are committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues and creating an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve.
Diverse perspectives and experiences are critical to our success, and we welcome applications from all people, from all backgrounds, with the experience and skills needed to perform this role.
We’re committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues here at HMRC and want everyone to feel valued and supported to achieve their potential.
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Important information for existing HMRC contractual homeworkers:
This role may be suitable for existing HMRC employees who are contractual homeworkers. Occasional attendance to the office will be required where there is a business need. Please consider the advertised office locations for this role when applying and only select locations from the ‘location preferences’ section that you can travel to.
Terms and Conditions
Customer facing roles in HMRC require the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English and/or Welsh where required. Where this is an essential requirement, this will be tested as part of the selection process.
HMRC has a presence in every region of the UK. For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.
The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences.
Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant application(s) will be withdrawn from the process.
Recording of interviews is prohibited unless explicit agreement is sought in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulations.
Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
New entrants will join on the minimum of the pay band.
If you experience accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). 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.