About the job

Job summary

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About our Team 

Based in Nottingham and part of Business, Assets and International – Assets, Residence & Valuation (AR&V), Shares and Assets Valuation's (SAV) job is to provide specialist valuations on everything from chattels and livestock, to shares and intellectual property as part of HMRC compliance activity.  

The role of a HMRC valuer involves providing specialist valuation expertise when working with other stakeholders across HMRC as well as while negotiating effectively with customers and their appointed valuation experts.

Job description

Your role within SAV will be as a Valuer in the Intangibles and Intellectual Property Team, specialising in the valuation of goodwill, software, licences and intellectual property such as trademarks, patents and technical know-how. 

With your transferrable skills and drive and ability to improve your specialised area of valuation knowledge, we will fully support you with a training plan to better you as a Valuer. 

Most valuations you will take ownership of, will involve multi-national enterprises and require the need to consider international tax issues such as transfer pricing and fair value accounting. 

You will liaise with customers verbally and in writing on valuation and tax technical matters, putting your knowledge and skills into practice.  

You will provide clear leadership on valuation aspects while using your soft skills to manage high profile  stakeholders, both internal and external, providing challenge where necessary.  

Over the years SAV has developed a level of expertise and the breadth of the work undertaken by SAV requires the Valuer to be experts not only in valuation methodology but to have finely honed negotiation skills too. 

The role of a Valuer in business valuation is encompassed within the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and we will support you in becoming members of this organisation. We will also support you through your RICS Assessment of Professional Competence for the Business Valuation Faculty leading to full RICS membership.

Person specification

As an Intangibles and Intellectual Property Valuer, you will lead on the following:-  

• Taking ownership on the valuation of a number of high value, complex or sensitive valuations. 
   
• Working with HMRC’s Customer Compliance Group, particularly Large Business and Mid-sized Business and collaborating with HMRC’s Technical teams including Accountancy and Transfer Pricing where valuation issues arise. 
   
• Developing a deep understanding of the evolving valuation principles involved in this area of work whilst collaborating with other Valuers by sharing technical knowledge and providing coaching. 

Essential Criteria  

• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing. 
• Demonstrate an understanding of complex valuation, tax or accountancy issues. 
• Excellent evidence-based decision-making skills and confidence in owning and communicating those decisions. 
• Evidence of complex business value experience or Tax Compliance experience.
• Hold one of the following qualifications (or equivalents) and be able to show a history of post qualification experience dealing with valuation, taxation or accountancy issues. 

• Associate RICS
• Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA)
• Chartered Accountant (ICAEW, ICAS, CAI, ACCA)
• Successfully completed the HMRC Tax Specialist Programme or one of its predecessors (TPDP, IDP, ITS2, CPT, FT2)
• Be a qualified solicitor with relevant post qualification experience

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £54,439, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £14,698 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

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

How to Apply 

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following: 

• A name blind CV
• A 750-word personal statement.

Your CV should cover your job history with a brief summary of what you delivered and any key achievements in each role (max 100 words per role). You will be scored against the Job description part outlined in the advert.

Your Personal Statement should be used to describe how your skills and experience would be suitable for the advertised role, making reference to the Person Specification and the Essential Criteria outlined in the advert making attention to focus on your impacts and outcomes with a wordcount of 750.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form. 

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

A full sift of CV, and your Personal Statement will be assessed, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.  

We may also raise the score required at any stage of the process if we receive a high number of applications.

Interview

During the panel interview, your experience will be assessed, and you will be asked behaviour-based questions to explore in detail what you are capable of. Your technical skills ability will also be assessed.

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.

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.

Merit List

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.

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. 

Click here for more information on how we make this happen.

Important information for existing HMRC contractual homeworkers:

Please note that this role is unsuitable for contractual homeworkers due to the nature and/or requirements of the role.

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

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

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.