Senior International Tax Specialist

Do you have experience in complex Transfer Pricing and/or wider International Tax work?

Do you want to use your skills to tackle some of the UK's most challenging tax issues?

Are you looking for an opportunity to lead a team of experienced tax specialists and make a real impact on the UK's tax landscape?

If so, we have the perfect role for you at HMRC! Watch our video to discover what its like working as an International Tax Specialist within HMRC.

Summary

At HMRC, we want everyone to feel welcome and valued. We aim to be a place where everyone can do their best work, regardless of their background. We offer flexible work options to help you fit work into your life, and we're always looking for ways to make HMRC a great place to work.

HMRC is one of the UK's biggest government departments. Almost everyone in the UK has some interaction with us. Each year, we collect over £800 billion from millions of people and businesses. This money helps pay for public services in the UK.

What We Offer

At HMRC, we care about our people and their work-life balance. We offer a 37-hour working week with the option of hybrid working, allowing you to work both from the office and from home. We also offer flexi-time, giving you the freedom to manage your working hours to suit your lifestyle. We provide excellent holiday entitlement, giving you the time you need to relax and recharge. We care about the well-being of our employees and offer a range of support and resources to help you look after your physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Joining HMRC is an exciting opportunity!

We will support you as you move to HMRC and offer on-the-job training and development to help you achieve your career goals. We are a large organisation, so there are many opportunities to change roles and advance your career.

We currently have vacancies in Large Business (LB) and Mid-Sized Business (MSB).
Large Business employs around 2,500 people to assure the compliance of HMRCs 2,000 largest and most complex customers. The size and global reach of our customers places international tax issues at the forefront of our work to ensure they comply fully with their tax obligations.
Mid-Sized Business is part of Wealthy and Mid-Sized Business Compliance (WMBC). WMBC is responsible for the tax affairs of customer groups including the UKs wealthiest individuals, Mid-sized businesses, public bodies and charities. MSB supports and assures the compliance of these businesses, which includes a variety of multinational, complex customer groups and their tax obligations.

The Senior International Tax Specialist role involves working with the most complex customers and youll be leading on risk assessment and enquiry work end-to-end.

You will play an integral role in strengthening HMRCs efforts to close the tax gap. Leading and supporting on some of the most ambitious, technical, and high-profile enquiry cases for some of the UKs largest multinational groups.

Your workload will be varied, consisting of risk assessment, enquiry work, real-time working, and will involve interacting with external customers and their representatives across a range of industries. You will work as a team with a number of key colleagues across the organisation including Customer Compliance Managers, cross-tax regime technical specialists, policy, economists and accountants.

Successful applicants will be responsible for technical leadership of a team of experienced International Tax Specialists (ITSs) and Corporation Tax Specialists (CTSs); focusing on building their capabilities through mentoring, training, and knowledge sharing.

In this role there will be opportunities to influence policy, contribute to the international tax compliance strategy, develop innovative solutions and build the international tax community.

This is a technical leadership role with no line management responsibilities.

Travel may be required from time to time to fulfil this role, for example to attend customer meetings.

• Significant recent experience of Transfer Pricing of multinational enterprises gained in HMRC, industry or in practice; and/or
• Significant recent experience in a wider International Tax work in respect of multinationals in HMRC, industry or in practice.
• Excellent understanding of international tax and OECD Frameworks.
• Proven ability to successfully manage and lead complex enquiries or projects end-to-end.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills ability to work across a range of stakeholders both internally and externally plus mentoring junior colleagues.

Qualifications

You should hold one of the following qualifications (alternative qualifications will be considered on their merits):

- HMRC Tax Specialist Programme or previous equivalent (Direct Tax) or an external equivalent qualification such as:
- Chartered Tax Advisor (CTA)/Associate of the Taxation Institute Incorporated (ATII),- or Advanced Diploma in International Taxation (ADIT) or
- an external qualification such as Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) membership qualification, for example Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales (ICAEW), Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland (ICAS), Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountancy (CIPFA), Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), where direct tax matters make up a substantial part of your professional experience or,
- qualification as a Solicitor, Barrister or CILEX Lawyer (including the Professional stage Business and Commercial Law module) in England and Wales (or equivalents in Scotland and Northern Ireland), provided that direct tax matters make up a substantial part of your professional experience.

The panel may consider significant relevant experience of tax in place of the formal qualifications listed above, if it can be demonstrated that a lead role has been taken over many years and this will be considered and judged on its own merits.

Alongside your salary of £66,957, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £19,397 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

The above is an illustration of the salary and employer pension contribution you would receive if you were paid at the minimum of the salary payband. If you are paid above the salary payband minimum then the corresponding figures will be higher. Below are further benefits of the role:

• An environment with flexible working options.
• We offer a generous leave allowance, starting at 25 days and increasing by a day for every year of qualifying service up to a maximum of 30 days.
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
• Learning and development tailored to your role.

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