Deputy Director Large Business Tax, South & Wales
HM Revenue and Customs
Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 14th October 2024
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Job summary
The Deputy Director (DD) will be a proven leader who will play a key role in the continued development and delivery of our Large Business Compliance Strategy, will help build the capability and skills of our people, and will motivate our people to deliver great service outcomes for our customers.
The DD will be one of the most senior tax professionals in the Department, will play a key part in leading delivery of high-quality tax compliance outcomes, both within the directorate, and also working alongside colleagues across HMRC.
In addition, as part of HMRC’s senior leadership in the South & Wales, the DD will be influential in moulding the future of the Department in Bristol and Cardiff. Therefore, alongside strong leadership skills, the role requires excellent stakeholder management and a broad tax technical understanding. The DD will have a passion for developing colleagues and leaders of the future, promoting an empowering culture that gives their teams space and authority to deliver and rewards innovation and initiative. The DD will engage with key customers and stakeholders, particularly in relation to the most complex and challenging tax technical cases.
The Deputy Director (DD) will lead delivery of LB South & Wales performance measures in line with the LB business plan, with colleagues within the directorate, but also working alongside colleagues across HMRC. The DD will need to engage with CCG and wider HMRC colleagues to influence and deliver cross-CCG initiatives and priorities.
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Key Responsibilities
- A member of the Large Business Senior Leadership Team, contributing to the corporate and collective leadership of the directorate; developing, determining and leading LB strategic direction.
- Lead the LB South & Wales region, setting the strategic, cultural and behavioural direction in support of LB objectives.
- As one of the department’s senior leaders, inspire people and help to build an inclusive culture within our regional centres and create a great place for all of our people to work.
- Play an active role as a senior leader in LB and across HMRC, setting strategic direction, driving innovation, generating influence, leading capability building and taking specific responsibility for an LB SLT portfolio.
- Ensure resources are deployed flexibly and effectively, in line with the highest risks and, working with other areas of LB, balance priorities effectively.
- Resolve significant, sensitive or potentially high-profile complaints and other compliance issues, using judgment and experience to handle swiftly and carefully.
- Manage regional finances and budget, ensuring appropriate governance and cost control.
- Direct line management of SCS (PB1) Deputy Directors Compliance who have responsibility for key compliance work within LB and across CCG.
- Overall management responsibility for all staff, approx. 380, in their locations.
Person specification
The successful candidate will possess recent compliance experience of working on the complex tax issues HMRC handles, and the ability to quickly develop an understanding of the Large Business operating model.
Essential Criteria:
- Excellent leadership skills with the ability to nurture and build capability within teams and the ability to motivate people towards stretching goals and inspire the team and delivery partners to engage fully with our business plans and HMRC’s long term vision.
- Experience of formulating, leading and implementing strategies, policies and programmes which cross organisational boundaries.
- The ability to manage effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders at senior level, strong collaboration and influencing skills to build an effective network of key stakeholders quickly. Excellent communication skills to engage confidently in a wide range of situations
- Strong customer service ethos and focus on delivery with the ability to respond quickly to changing circumstances and tight timescales as priorities evolve and escalate issues for resolution.
- Compliance experience of working on the most challenging and complex tax technical issues, and the ability to quickly develop an understanding of the Large Business operating model.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills to engage confidently in a wide range of situations.
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
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- Accountancy (CIPFA) or, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Tax professional learning and CPD – ensuring up to date and share expertise with HMRC colleagues
Benefits
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.
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Selection process details
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 the document contains your full name.
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 14th October 2024 and a shortlist decision is expected to be made by 28th October 2024. 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, Nicole Newbury. 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.
All Criminal Record Checks applications are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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
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