Deputy Director Large Business Tax Compliance - Leeds
2 days ago
Leeds
About the job Job summary As senior leaders in Large Business, Deputy Director Compliance (DDC) play 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 also 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 frequent 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., • 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. • HMRC Tax Specialist Programme or Equivalent (Direct Tax) or 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 • 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) (opens in a new window), • 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