Advisory Accountant

Join to apply for the Advisory Accountant role at HM Revenue & Customs. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience. Apply before 11:55 pm on Friday 23rd January 2026.

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.

Location: Belfast Regional Centre, Birmingham Regional Centre, Bristol Regional Centre, Croydon, Edinburgh Regional Centre, Glasgow Regional Centre, Liverpool Regional Centre, Manchester Regional Centre, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Nottingham Regional Centre, Portsmouth, Stratford Regional Centre.

About the job:

Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Are you a qualified accountant with strong financial accounting experience from working in practice or industry? Will you bring commercial knowledge and an understanding of how businesses operate, and how accounting standards apply to sophisticated transactions? Would the offer of hybrid work, actual flexitime and genuine work-life balance alongside captivating technical work interest you?

If so, we can offer you a role that offers exciting and ambitious work that has real impacts on Government tax policy decisions and makes a huge difference to the nation’s finances. At HMRC we are committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues; an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve.

Our team of 150 accountants support HMRC’s teams and have previously worked in varied roles in practice or industry, including audit and financial accounting positions. The Commissioners’ Advisory Accountant (CAA) is accountable for all accountancy advice to Tribunals and Courts and to HMRC policy units, and for the quality of advice given by Advisory and Forensic Accountants in operational directorates to HMRC officers in those operational directorates.

The CAA is supported by the CAA team which is responsible for providing accountancy advice in litigation and policy matters, and for the delivery of a high-quality accountancy service throughout HMRC. Its work impacts on most parts of the Department and HMRC customers. The team also represents HMRC with external professional bodies such as the ICAEW, ICAS and ACCA. We are expanding and looking for 2 accountants to join our growing CAA team.

Responsibilities:

• Provide accounting advice for complex accountancy issues: analysing relevant customer facts, accounting frameworks and, where appropriate, challenge customers’ accounting analyses.
• Engage with customers and work with other specialists to form a view and assess the impact of the accounting treatment for tax.
• Support litigation activity, acting as an expert accounting witness, case accountant, or witness of fact and be proactive in assisting others involved in litigation.
• Prepare and review professional reports containing factual and opinion evidence, attend case conferences, meetings and court, acting with professionalism, integrity and independence.
• Develop and provide high-quality training to accountancy and tax professionals, ensuring knowledge transfer and providing follow-up support to delegates.
• Coach and mentor colleagues, fostering capability development and professional growth.
• Share knowledge and best practice, leveraging innovative methods and digital tools to enhance efficiency and consistency.
• Demonstrate leadership, expertise, and authority to credibly engage with key collaborators including agents, tribunals, colleagues, customers, and senior HMRC officers.

Person specification:

This role requires strong financial accounting post-qualification experience, gained and consolidated in either practice, industry, public sector or private sector, dealing with a range of stakeholders. This should be demonstrated by:

• Experience of working on complex technical financial accounting matters, including:

• Analysing and interpreting financial records;
• Preparing or reviewing financial statements;
• Considering the appropriate accounting treatment of a variety of specific transactions.

A clear understanding of accounting principles and the application of GAAP in the UK; Strong communication skills, including delivery of reports or briefings to senior stakeholders; and Commercial knowledge and an understanding of how businesses operate including accounting systems.

If you are interested in applying, you must address all of the following essential criteria in your CV to be successful at the sift stage:

• Full and complete qualification from, and continuing membership of, at least one of the following professional accounting bodies:

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)
• The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland (ICAS)
• Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI)
• The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
• The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
• The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA)

Please Note: Part qualified accountants are not eligible for these posts. You will be required to show evidence of your qualification and membership at interview.

Further Information:

There may be a need to travel across the UK with occasional overnight stays being required and there may be a need for occasional travel for business purposes.

Qualifications:

Full and complete qualification from, and continuing membership of, at least one of the following professional accounting bodies:

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)
• The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland (ICAS)
• Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI)
• The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
• The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
• The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA)

Technical skills:

We will assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Please give an example (250 words) of when you considered complex accounting treatments in practice - include type of industry, your role, the standards applied, and alternatives/options considered. Include which role this relates to from your CV.
• A technical accountancy presentation. You will be provided details in advance of your interview.

Alongside your salary of £58,541, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £16,959 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs. We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.

Benefits:

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development.

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Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Accounting/Auditing

Industries: Government Administration and Government Relations Services.