JOB SUMMARY

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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 customer’s 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.

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);
• HMRC’s 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.

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)’

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

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 HMRC’s governance framework to resolution at tribunal or by agreement in accordance with the department’s 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 London’s CT Regime Leader and CT Steering Group (which sets the CT Regime’s strategy) to improve the region’s 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.