Working to the Director of Indirect Tax within Customer Strategy & Tax Design Group, the job holder will lead a team of around 40, undertaking priority policy work, ensuring VAT Reliefs, Financial Services and Insurance Premium Tax are optimised to deliver essential revenues and Ministerial and Departmental objectives.
The post-holder will ensure that the policies for which they are responsible are designed to meet Ministerial, Government and Departmental aims. They will make evidence-based decisions on complex policy, technical and legal issues with a range of competing stakeholders and priorities to consider. This will include protecting the VAT regime against boundary pushing, working with a range of experts in their team and across the Department.
The jobholder will be a member of the Indirect Tax SLT and provide inspirational, confident, empowering, and visible SCS leadership for their teams, across the Directorate and wider organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Working with HM Treasury on VAT Reliefs, Financial Services and Insurance Premium Tax to achieve the government’s fiscal and policy objectives and identifying and delivering reforms to support delivery of HMRC’s strategic objectives.
- Where appropriate act as Senior Responsible Officer for the operational delivery of policy measures, ensuring that customer, compliance, and efficiency implications are fully considered.
- Build collaborative and productive working relationships with a broad range of HMRC colleagues, HM Treasury officials and Ministers.
- Engaging across government and externally, representing HMRC professionally, taking opportunities to influence.
- Play a key role in embedding new ways of working for VAT such as VAT Regime Ownership for example.
- Lead a team of 40 including tax and policy experts to defend policies and protect revenue from boundary pushing, mis interpretation and mis application.
- Continue their teams’ development and support them to deliver their objectives.
- Person specification
- We are seeking an experienced leader with deep policy knowledge and a demonstrable track record of delivering results. We want to hear from candidates with a real passion for leadership, developing technical and policy experts and empowering them to successfully design policy, with the gravitas to inspire and influence senior stakeholders.
The successful applicant will need to demonstrate relevant experience and effective delivery of the following essential criteria.
Essential Criteria:
- Proven leadership skills with a focus on engagement, development, and collective ownership of strategic objectives.
- Demonstrable experience of policy leadership, including leading teams of policy experts in collaboratively designing effective policies in a complex, fast-paced environment.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills including at ministerial level or equivalent, and with internal and external or cross -Government stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills at all levels, and in writing, ensuring that complex issues are set out in a simple and accessible way that is influential and authoritative.
Desirable criteria:
- Knowledge and experience of working on VAT.
- Experience of working with Ministers and the fiscal event process.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £75,000, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £20,250 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
As a Civil Service employee, you’ll be entitled to a large range of benefits.
This includes:
- 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.