HMRC job roles
Here you can read about the different specialist roles available in the Grade 7 – Senior Tax Professional recruitment campaign. Please remember to state your preference(s) of specialism when you are completing your online application.
Employer Duties Specialist
Locations: Cardiff, Croydon, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham
(please note that there is flexibility with office locations, please state your preference on your application)
Starting salary £48,389 (National) - £54,461 (London) + excellent benefits
Join HMRC who are looking to recruit tax professionals currently working in external practice. You will possess relevant commercial experience in employment duties gained in either industry or in professional practice capacity across a wide range of business, organisations and arenas.
Required skills and experience:
- A broad range of experience of various remuneration and reward strategies as well as a detailed understanding of employment duty compliance requirements.
- Knowledge of payroll activity in Midsize Businesses (including payroll processes and systems) and of the administration of payroll benefits.
- Experience of working with a range of compliance issues including complex tax technical issues and the structural impacts on compliance with the knowledge of the drivers behind customers’ attitudes and behaviours in Employer Duties.
- Working with niche areas of reward such as Disguised Remuneration and Globally Mobile Employees, Share Schemes etc.
- Experience in training and mentoring staff in Employer Duties technical matters, developing and delivering training tailored to meet the requirements of the current Employer Duties landscape
Corporation Tax Specialist
Locations: Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham
(please note that there is flexibility with office locations, please state your preference on your application)
Starting salary £48,389 (National) - £54,461 (London) + excellent benefits
As part of the Corporation Tax Team, you will work turning your skills to complex and sometimes controversial tax affairs of UK and international businesses and individuals, you will be instrumental in reducing the tax gap which means you’ll play an integral role in ensuring vital public services are funded. What’s more, you’ll be recognised as a key leader, with scope to shape our future direction.
Required skills and experience:
- Being a visible leader as the area builds for the future.
- Leading or working as part of a team, carrying out risk-based compliance work into the tax affairs of customers e.g. UK & International businesses
- Carrying out quality compliance checks, establishing facts using an investigative approach.
- Working issues to resolution, using the full range of statutory powers that are available, as required.
- Working corporately across business streams to maximise the performance of HMRC, sharing good practice and information as appropriate.
- It is essential that you have a demonstrable track-record of working successfully at a senior level as a tax specialist in one or more of the following areas - Corporation Tax or Employer Compliance.
Key skills include:
- Managing customer / 3rd party relationships to secure appropriate tax & duty outcomes in a compliance environment;
- Interpreting complex legislation & holding persuasive arguments / discussions on relevant points of detail.
- In addition to your technical expertise you will have strong leadership skills e.g. providing technical support & advice for colleagues; acting as a role model, communicating a sense of direction with clarity and conviction.
- Coaching and mentoring colleagues.
- Adopting a collaborative approach to discussions and problem-solving.
Complex Evasion Specialist
Locations: Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Croydon, Glasgow, Manchester
(please note that there is flexibility with office locations, please state your preference on your application)
Starting salary £48,389 (National) - £54,461 (London) + excellent benefits
As part of the Evasion Team, you will work turning your skills to complex and sometimes controversial tax affairs of UK and international businesses and individuals, you will be instrumental in reducing the tax gap which means you’ll play an integral role in ensuring vital public services are funded. What’s more, you’ll be recognised as a key leader, with scope to shape our future direction.
Required skills and experience:
- An interest or aptitude in investigation work, and in tackling tax evasion. Experience gained in external practice of owner-managed businesses, and the families behind them, will be a particular asset.
- Strong analytical skills: Much of the work requires the critical evaluation of large amounts of information in diverse formats from a wide range of sources. Investigators need to draw the right conclusions and make the correct decisions, to identify tax risk and to pursue appropriate lines of enquiry. They must also apply complex legislation to the facts in front of them.
- Excellent communication skills: Investigators need to be confident and persuasive in advancing their thoughts and opinions, but able to consider and reflect on the views of others.
- Strong people skills: Team working is critical to success, and case leads must get the best out of their case teams, and the other specialists they draw on. The case lead must also manage customer and third party relationships to secure positive outcomes.
- Strong leadership skills: In providing technical support and tactical advice to team members, case leads must drive and give a sense of direction for each case with clarity and conviction. Case leads are viewed as role models, and coach and mentor less experienced colleagues.
- Good time management and organisational skills: Case leads must manage a portfolio of cases effectively, and make optimal use of all the resources available to them.
Civil and Criminal Fraud Investigator
Locations: Belfast, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham
(please note that there is flexibility with office locations, please state your preference on your application)
Starting salary £48,389 (National) - £54,461 (London) + excellent benefits
You will work as a Criminal or Civil Investigator in HMRC’s Fraud Investigation Service (FIS). We can offer you the chance to make a difference. The 2015 Summer Budget provided additional resourcing for criminal investigations into cases of suspected tax fraud, with a particular emphasis on criminal activity by the wealthy and the entities they control. Criminal investigations have an important part to play in addressing instances of tax fraud where a civil settlement would not be appropriate, while civil investigations use our civil intervention procedures and powers to reach a monetary settlement where possible, or to proceed to civil litigation if not. As an experienced tax professional in external practice you are uniquely placed to help us; you will contribute new ideas and different perspectives to our criminal and civil investigations as we look to improve operational efficiency using new work practices and team structures.
Required skills and experience:
- A good knowledge of Income Tax, Corporation Tax and Capital Gains Tax along with understanding of the impact of other tax and duty regimes, especially in relation to corporate entities controlled by individuals under investigation.
- Strong analytical skills. Much of the work requires the critical evaluation of large amounts of material obtained in the course of an investigation from diverse sources. The post-holder will need to confidently make decisions as to relevance of material, and to identify and pursue lines of enquiry. The post-holder will need to be able to assess complex and diverse tax risks that arise out of the information obtained.
- Excellent communication skills. Investigators need to be confident and persuasive in advancing their thoughts and opinions, but able to consider and reflect on the views of others.
- Knowledge and understanding of IT and how best to employ those tools.
- Good people skills, to work closely with and through partners and colleagues. Team working is critical to success, and you will need to manage customer and third party relationships to secure appropriate outcomes.
- Good time management and organisational skills. There needs to be flexibility to meet deadlines and to show a commitment to continuous improvement and working in a culture of change, both within FIS and the wider HMRC.
- Strong leadership skills. You will need to: provide technical support and advice to colleagues; act as a role model, communicating a sense of direction with clarity and conviction; and coach and mentor colleagues.
Please click "Apply now" below to submit your online application. Please remember to state your preference(s) of specialism when completing your online application.