Deputy Director Large Business Tax Compliance

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 435733

**Salary**:

- £81,000
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- SCS Pay Band 1

** Contract type**:

- Permanent

** Business area**:

- HMRC - CCG - Large Business

** Type of role**:

- Senior leadership
Tax Profession

** Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

** Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

** Location**:

- Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

** About the job**:
** Job summary**:

- **As Deputy Director Large Business (LB) Compliance, North East & Yorkshire, you will play a key part in providing technical, strategic and corporate leadership for a Directorate of more than 2,000 people, working with colleagues within the Directorate and across HMRC. As well as working with individual businesses, our Deputy Directors Compliance (DDCs) are also responsible for leading significant national projects that cover many customers across multi-layered groups, or specific risk themes.**
- The Large Business team is responsible for HMRC’s compliance work with the largest and most complex business customers; businesses which account for some 40% of HMRC’s annual revenues.

** Job description**:

- 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**:

- **Essential Criteria**:

- 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.

** Essential Qualifications**:

- 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** Benefits**:

- 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.- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28