International Tax Specialist

Location

Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Stratford

About the job

Job summary

Do you have experience in either International Tax or Transfer Pricing? Are you eager to tackle some of the UK's most challenging tax issues and expand your expertise in these areas? Are you ready to make a real impact on the UK’s tax landscape, working with a team of experienced tax specialists?

If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you at HMRC!

Job description

At HMRC, we want everyone to feel welcome and valued. We aim to be a place where everyone can do their best work, regardless of their background. We offer flexible work options to help you fit work into your life, and we're always looking for ways to make HMRC a great place to work.

HMRC is one of the UK's biggest government departments. Almost everyone in the UK has some interaction with us. Each year, we collect over £800 billion. This money helps pay for public services in the UK.

Large Business employs around 2,500 people to assure the compliance of HMRC’s 2,000 largest and most complex customers. The size and global reach of our customers places international tax issues at the forefront of our work to ensure they comply fully with their tax obligations.

Mid-Sized Business is part of Wealthy and Mid-Sized Business Compliance (WMBC). WMBC is responsible for the tax affairs of customer groups including the UK’s wealthiest individuals, Mid-sized businesses, public bodies and charities. MSB supports and assures the compliance of these businesses, which includes a variety of multinational, complex customer groups and their tax obligations.

What we offer

We currently have vacancies in Large Business (LB) and Mid-Sized Business (MSB).

As an International Tax Specialist, you will play an integral role in strengthening HMRC’s efforts to close the tax gap. Leading and supporting on some of the most ambitious, technical, and high-profile enquiry cases for some of the UK’s largest multinational groups.

Your workload will be varied, consisting of risk assessment, enquiry work, real-time working, and will involve interacting with external customers and their representatives across a range of industries. You will work as a team with a number of key colleagues across the organisation including Customer Compliance Managers, cross-tax regime technical specialists, policy, economists and accountants.

In this role you will have an opportunity to aid capability building of tax specialists through mentoring, training and knowledge sharing and contribute to building of the International Tax community.

Travel may be required from time to time to fulfil this role, for example to attend customer meetings.

Person specification

Essential Criteria

• Good recent experience of International Tax or Transfer Pricing work in HMRC, industry or practice.
• Good communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Good stakeholder management and collaboration skills – ability to work across a range of stakeholders both internally and externally.

Qualifications

You should hold one of the following qualifications:

• Chartered Tax Adviser (CIOT)
  
• Advanced Diploma in International Taxation (CIOT)
  
• AIIT (including Paper 4*)
  
• A Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) membership qualification including:
  Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales (ICAEW),
  Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland (ICAS)
  Institute of Chartered Accountants Ireland (ICAI)
  Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
  Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
  
• Post Graduate full legal qualification - in taxation matters
  
• For previous or existing HMRC employees TSP or predecessor qualification (TPDP, IDP, ITS2, CPT FT2) - (note - existing HMRC employees would only be eligible if they have completed the appropriate course to get them to G7 level (or above) as a tax professional).
  
• 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.
• Equivalent overseas degrees/professional qualifications to the qualifications noted above.

In October 2023, a decision was made that applicants for G7 Tax Professional roles must have successfully completed the Tax Specialist Programme or hold an equivalent qualification. To enable career development for experienced colleagues already in Tax Professional roles, if you have been successful in gaining a G7 Tax Professional role through open competition prior to October 2023, and you are not subject to any Performance Management action, you are now able to apply on level transfer for other G7 Tax Professional roles. Please note that if you applied for a non-tax professional role on promotion to Grade 7 prior to October 2023 but have tax experience, you would not be able to apply on level for tax professional roles.

The panel may consider candidates who can demonstrate a level of professional expertise and technical capability that is demonstrably equivalent to the qualifications listed above. This would normally be evidenced through substantial and sustained senior-level experience applying transfer pricing and/or international tax rules. Any such consideration would be assessed rigorously on its own merits against the standards expected of the specified qualifications.

Further Location Information

Please ensure that you only apply for a location that you are willing and able to work from, as we will only make one offer of employment. Any additional notes included in a ‘Further Location Preferences (optional)’ field within the application form, will not be considered. Please be aware that you cannot change your location preference after submitting your application.

Office closures

If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it’s important to note that these are not long‑term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.

These sites are:

• Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle
• Lynx House, Portsmouth – moving to an alternative office in Portsmouth

You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.

Leeds Locations

Moves Adjustment Payment will be available for this role, provided the successful applicant is a current HMRC colleague in Bradford and meets the eligibility requirements outlined in the HMRC’s Moves Adjustment Payment guidance.

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