Deputy Director Large Business Tax Compliance

As senior leaders in Large Business, Deputy Director Compliance (DDC) play a key role in leadership within the region. DDCs 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 DDCs 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 DDCs 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.

Person Specification

• The successful candidate will have recent experience of complex tax compliance or working in a complex compliance-based environment.
• 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.
• Recent experience of leading complex tax enquiries and resolving disputes.
• Experience of complex tax planning including consideration of anti-avoidance measures.

Qualifications

• Essential Qualifications: HMRC Tax Specialist Programme or Equivalent (Direct Tax) or 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.
• Solicitor, Barrister or CILEX Lawyer (including the Professional stage Business and Commercial Law module) in England and Wales (or equivalents in Scotland and Northern Ireland) with direct tax professional experience.

Alongside your salary of £81,000, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £23,465 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Pension

Your Civil Service pension is a valuable part of your total reward and is one of your biggest benefits. When you join the Civil Service, you get access to the alpha pension with a generous employer contribution of 28.97% and some of the lowest member contributions in the public sector. Please visit Civil Service Pension Scheme for more information.

Annual Leave and Bank Holiday Allowance

25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service (allowance pro-rata for part-time colleagues). This is complemented by one days paid privilege leave to mark the King’s Birthday and is in addition to your public holidays.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

The Civil Service values and supports all its employees. At HMRC we want to create great places to work that are welcoming to all – where there is a strong sense of belonging and community. Our HMRC equality objectives 2024-2028 describe how we are working to become a more inclusive and representative organisation reflective of our values.