National Insurance Fund Accounts Assistant

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

- 402157

**Salary**:

- £34,093 - £36,461
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- HMRC - CFO - Risk, Control and Financial Accounting

**Type of role**:

- Accountancy

**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**:

- Stratford

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
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As part of Finance Operations, the Tax Accounts team play a crucial role in providing both Financial and Management information across all areas of HMRC. We accounted for over £843 billion of tax revenue in 2023-24. The team has responsibility for production and assurance of all HMRC Tax Accounts. These include the Trust Statement (TS), National Insurance Fund (NIF) accounts for Great Britain (GB) and Northern Ireland (NI), the Isle of Man (IoM) accounts, the Whole of Government Accounts (WGA), monthly in-year tax management accounts, and the financial statements for the European Commission.

**Job description**:

- The role is for the National Insurance Fund Team, part of Risk, Control and Financial Accounting Directorate in Corporate Finance and are responsible for producing the National Insurance Fund Accounts (NIF) for GB and NI.

**Person specification**:
The role supports the production of the annual NIF financial statements and helps to produce and maintain a strict timetable of key deliverables by:

- Working to agreed HM Treasury timetables and to the quality expected by the NAO;
- Engaging with stakeholders to ensure timely collection of data and monitoring responses for quality and accuracy;
- Maintaining good records to corroborate the financial statements produced;
- Working with others to review and improve systems, processes, and controls;
- Helping to resolve problems and covering workloads when required;
- Working with key stakeholders to ensure that any recommendations from NAO auditors are dealt with in a timely and effective manner;
- Alerting the team to potential issues and helping to resolve them;
- Helping to provide and analyse management information for decision making;
- Assisting with urgent and important ad-hoc queries.

**Essential Criteria: -**

Accountancy Qualification - Either AAT qualified, currently studying AAT, or pursuing another professional accountancy qualification.
- Financial Reporting Experience - Experience in supporting the production of financial statements.
- Accounting Software Knowledge - Hands-on experience in using an accounting system and processing journal entries.
- Advanced Excel Skills - Such as a high level of proficiency in VLOOKUPs, pivot tables, IF formulas, and the use of macros.

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £34,093, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £9,876 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
- Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
- Family friendly policies.
- Personal support.
- Coaching and development.

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**Things you need to know**:
**Selection process details**:
**How to Apply**
- A name-blind CV including your job history and previous experiences. Your CV will be scored.
- A 750-word personal statement. Your personal statement should explain how you meet the Essential Criteria for the role, formatted in the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) layout, so that we can clearly see what you did and what the outcome was.

**Sift**

**Interview**

During the panel interview, your Experience will be assessed.**

Interviews will take place face to face in Stratford. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

**Eligibility**

**Reserve List**

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles - if this applies to you, we’ll let you know via your Civil Service Jobs account.

**Merit List**

After interview, a single merit list will be created, and you will only be considered for posts in locations you have expressed a preference for. Appointments will be made in strict merit order in line with t