Hmrc Customs and International Trade Tax Specialist

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

- 355464**Salary**:

- £54,439 - £60,183- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HMRC - CCG - Large Business**Type of role**:

- Tax Profession**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 4Contents

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- Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Liverpool, Nottingham, Birmingham, Cardiff, BristolAbout the job

**Job summary**:
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HMRC, the UK's tax, payments, and customs authority, is looking for skilled CIT Tax Specialists to join our Compliance Group.

Our role is vital, to bring in the money to pay for the country’s public services and give financial support to people. Our vision is simple, to be a trusted, modern tax and customs department. An organisation that makes it easy for our customers to get tax right, and hard for anyone to bend or break the rules.

LB is responsible for ensuring the tax compliance of the UK's largest businesses, managing tax risks and ensuring compliance through expert analysis and impactful negotiation. Be at the forefront of significant tax decisions influencing the nation's economy. Each business is allocated a Customer Compliance Manager (CCM) who works collaboratively with the businesses to help them get their tax right.

LB operates a regional structure with each region having a Deputy Director (DD) who is accountable for driving forward and delivering spending review commitments, the large business strategy, and to help manage fundamental changes in our organisation by building capability and engagement.

The G7 CIT Tax Professional will be responsible for supporting the DD and working with other members of their regional CIT team and Senior Leadership to deliver on their accountabilities.

**Job description**:

- The G7 CIT Tax Professional will provide critical expertise and leadership to support and lead case teams within their region in tackling non-compliance and delivering improved customer compliance, whilst being an active and visible presence in the wider HMRC CIT community, working flexibly across LB regions and CCG directorates in collaboration with key stakeholders in other areas of HMRC and externally.
- **The specific responsibilities of the role will include**:

- Drive delivery of the LB work programme, LB compliance projects and LB Business Risk Review (BRR) commitments.
- Identify and address new areas of risk, focussing on current compliance project risk areas as well as potentially developing new areas of risk for future inclusion as compliance projects.
- Work with CCMs, customers and policy to deliver on national priorities and meet business objectives, providing critical support during a period of significant change in UK Customs.
- Act as lead specialist on sensitive and complex CIT technical issues, supporting CCMs in discussions with customers, leading technical discussions with legal advisers and policy owners, taking the lead role in progressing cases through HMRC governance and supporting the HMRC legal team through the litigation process.
- Lead HMRC engagement with industry bodies and other external stakeholders.
- Work with policy and other HMRC stakeholders to develop UK policy and systems.
- Provide leadership to the LB CIT community and build capability across LB to address critical and sensitive regime issues.
- Build CIT capability within teams, acting as coach and mentor to Tax Specialists of all grades and playing a key role with regional CIT Leads and managers in building and developing team capability and performance delivery.
- Build upon current projects addressing risk areas in the CIT regime and drive forward future project work aimed at addressing non-compliance, utilising and refining data led compliance approaches.
- Report to regional and national groups on role activity.

**Person specification**:
You will have opportunities to interact with external customers and representatives, collaborate with cross-functional case teams, and contribute to building the professional tax community through mentoring, training, and knowledge sharing. We offer varied responsibilities consisting of resolving tax disputes, leading teams, shaping future tax policies, and interacting with senior business figures.

**Essential Criteria**:
**Experience**

**Leader** - demonstrable record of effective tax technical leadership of teams in a Customs tax compliance environment, providing strategic direction to ensure successful outcomes, including the