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Large Business (LB) is responsible for over 2,000 of the largest businesses that pay a significant proportion of the total business taxes and duties that HMRC collects.
LB operates a regional structure with each region led by a Deputy Director (DD) who is accountable for delivering the LB Strategy, Operational Delivery and People Leadership across the regions.
LB London specialises in the Banking and Asset Management sector.
Every customer in Large Business has a Customer Compliance Manager (CCM) who is responsible for managing the overall relationship with the customer and all aspects of the customers tax affairs. Within this the CT Compliance team has a customer facing role with a significant emphasis on customer compliance.
Grade 6 CT Tax Professionals work as members of one or more teams that are usually multi-discipline, dealing with highly complex, tax affairs of major UK and International businesses, employers, individuals and public bodies, concentrating mainly on issues with either substantial amounts of tax at risk or significant points of principle.
The successful candidate will be expected to undertake self-led and supported learning to upskill themselves in the role particularly in relation to developing their commercial understanding of the sectors.
The role can be based at either our Croydon or Stratford Regional Centres.
Job description
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic, high performing team within Large Business.
You will be expected to provide key technical input to the risk identification and risk working in Large Business customers in the Banking and Asset Management sectors.
Key Responsibilities
G6 CT Tax Professionals will be required to work closely with Customer Compliance Managers and Tax Professional Managers to identify and progress our most complex and technically challenging risks by:
Using your technical knowledge and skills to lead the risk assessment work on our most complex and risky customers
Leading and developing the approach in our most technically challenging enquiries, and taking these forward directly or through others
Taking complex and contentious issues through HMRCs governance framework to resolution at tribunal or by agreement in accordance with the departments Litigation and Settlement Strategy
Acting as a consultant, providing technical advice and support to less experienced colleagues in their more difficult cases
Understanding the commercial factors influencing a business's tax compliance and building customer focus into projects and compliance checks undertaken
Representing Large Business in key discussions with the customer, big four advisors, governance panels, policy colleagues, solicitors and Counsel.
You will also play an active role in developing our approach to compliance in the region by:
Actively supporting LB Londons CT Regime Leader and CT Steering Group (which sets the CT Regimes strategy) to improve the regions direct tax compliance strategy and compliance processes, helping to drive forward national risks and priorities
Promote the range of compliance responses to emerging risks, including upstream and one to many approaches. Working with key stakeholders to develop the most efficient approach to addressing risk
Contributing to an improvement in compliance quality, ensuring quality of your own work and that of colleagues:
- adheres to HMRC policy and procedures
- leads to resolution within the Litigation and Settlement Strategy governance
- adheres to the compliance professional standards
Providing technical coaching and mentoring to develop people within your own team or across the Region
Training others by sharing your knowledge of the Banking and Asset Management sectors across all tax regimes at sector and regime forums and other training events.
There are no direct line management responsibilities.
Person specification
The successful candidate will work on tax risks within some of the UK's largest and most complex customers, which bring with it wider leadership responsibilities. These may include representing HMRC at meetings with industry bodies, ensuring HMRC operational and policy messages are aligned and delivered effectively and acting as a leader and role model within LBs CT community helping to improve the regions direct tax compliance strategy and compliance processes.
The prospective candidate will need to demonstrate:
Proven leadership of complex compliance risks in a direct tax environment
The ability to interpret complex legislation and apply tax knowledge to identify and drive forward complex tax risks and avoidance risks, taking these through to completion in a timely and effective manner
That they can build and maintain relationships with complex customers and other key internal and external stakeholders
The ability to act as a consultant, providing technical advice and support to less experienced colleagues in their more difficult cases
That they can use their experience, technical expertise and knowledge to improve our compliance processes, provide feedback, and build capability in others.
Essential Criteria:
The successful candidate will have:
Recent experience of leadership in a corporation tax compliance, tax policy or tax advisory role. This could have been gained within HMRC, private practice or in house
Recent compliance experience working on the most complex corporation tax issues.
Qualifications
You should hold one or more of the following qualifications:
Chartered Institute of Tax (CTA) or Management Accountants (CIMA);
Advanced Diploma in International Tax (ADIT);
HMRCs TSP or predecessor qualification (TPDP, IDP, ITS2, CPT, FT2);
Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies membership qualification (such as ICAEW, ICAS, CAI, ACCA, CIPFA,) or overseas equivalent;
Postgraduate legal qualification.
Desirable Criteria:
Recent experience of compliance working in the Banking or Asset Management sector is desirable but not essential as training will be provided.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
* Leadership
* Making Effective Decisions
* Developing Self and Others
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
* In addition we will assess your experience and Technical knowledge in Corporation Tax work by reference to a question (asked in a similar style to the behaviours) based on: The Tax Competency Framework: Application of Tax Knowledge (Level 3)'
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