Deputy Director Large Business Tax Compliance

Location Bristol, Cardiff About the Job As senior leaders in Large Business, Deputy Director Compliance (DDC) plays a key role in leadership within the region. DDCs are peer-led by the Regional Deputy Director; the successful candidate will provide technical, strategic, and corporate leadership across the region, Large Business as a whole, and the wider HMRC. The role 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 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. Job Description 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 The successful candidate will have recent experience of complex tax compliance or working in a complex compliance-based environment. 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 £76,000, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £22,017 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. As a Civil Service employee, you’ll be entitled to a large range of benefits: 25 days annual leave on entry, increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years’ service. This is in addition to your public holidays. This will be complemented by one further day paid privilege entitlement to mark the King’s Birthday. Interest-free loans allowing you to spread the cost of an annual travel season ticket or a new bicycle. Flexible working patterns and access to Flexible Working Schemes allowing you to vary your working day as long as you work your total hours. A competitive contributory pension scheme that you can enter as soon as you join and where we will make a significant contribution to the cost of your pension. Your contribution comes out of your salary before any tax is taken and will continue to provide valuable benefits for you and your family if you are too ill to continue to work or die before you retire. Generous paid maternity and paternity leave which is notably more than the statutory minimum offered by many other employers. Use of onsite facilities (where applicable). Occupational sick pay. For more information and to apply please visit our website via the apply button below.

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