Deputy Director, Corporate Tax Team

4 weeks ago

Darlington, United Kingdom HM TREASURY Full time

If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives, HM Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK

About the team

The Corporate Tax team is a welcoming, friendly and open team. We have responsibility for the Corporation Tax regime, tax issues specific to the Financial Services sector, and other UK taxes levied on incorporated businesses.

We work on high-profile, stretching, and politically relevant measures that help support different economic and fiscal objectives. Those objectives include encouraging business investment and innovation, supporting UK competitiveness, and raising revenue through protecting the UK tax base from avoidance.

Our work is often fast paced, wide-ranging and requiring of engagement with external partners and other areas of Whitehall, and it involves development of policy in areas of the tax system that are complicated and that interact with accounting, company law or industry regulation. Our team has always been made up of people with a diverse set of backgrounds and experience, and there is substantial support and on the job training to help you develop the skills needed for the role.

About the role

Key accountabilities

  1. Lead, empower and manage a team of around 15 individuals, with direct line management responsibility for 3 Range E2s (Grade 6s).
  2. Working closely with HMRC, lead the team to originate, design, implement and evaluate changes to the corporate tax regime to support different economic and fiscal objectives, including promoting growth, supporting the UK’s international competitiveness, ensuring sustainable tax receipts, and countering avoidance and aggressive tax planning by multinational groups.
  3. Ensure your team enacts effective and appropriate taxation of different parts of the financial sector, taking account of their outstanding characteristics, their specific regulatory regimes, and their role in the wider UK economy.
  4. Support your team to advance the UK’s interests on international corporate tax matters (e.g. the allocation of taxing rights, effective protection against base-erosion, improving tax certainty and administrative cooperation) in the various different fora, most notably the OECD Committee of Fiscal Affairs and the OECD BEPS Inclusive Framework.
  5. Build trusted and effective relationships with external partners and international counterparts and use those relationships to help support the aforementioned responsibilities.
  6. As a member of the BIT GMT, play an active role in promoting a positive culture in BIT to improve wellbeing and engagement, shaping and delivering the BIT business plan and ensuring that BIT is an encouraging, stretching and fun place to work.

    About you

    Our ideal candidate:

  7. Will have experience of developing policy in a technically fast paced area, preferably within tax.
You'll have a track record in leading hard-working teams to deliver against challenging objectives within tight timescales or uncertain environments. You'll be able to explain technical issues to a range of audiences with a view to informing and influencing their decisions. You will also be skilled at creating a strong network of contacts, with the ability to use that network to help inform, deliver, and land detailed policy reforms. Lastly, you'll need to bring good judgement to advise on complicated and time sensitive issues. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you

About us

HM Treasury is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We know that having a range of experiences, ways of working and thinking makes us a stronger organisation, better at developing policy that is reflective of the communities we serve. We embrace different views and experiences and value the fresh perspective that people from a variety of circumstances bring to the work we do. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.

Some of the Benefits our people love

25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours) Generous parental and adoption leave packages Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 27% Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity (e.g. women in the Treasury, ethnic minority network, LGBT* network, faith and belief network)

For more information about the role and how to apply, please follow the apply link.

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk

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