Job Description

Details

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Reference number

435733

Salary

81,000
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
GBP

Job grade

SCS Pay Band 1

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

HMRC - CCG - Large Business

Type of role

Senior leadership

Tax Profession

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

1

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Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information

Location

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Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

About the job

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Job summary

As Deputy Director Large Business (LB) Compliance, North East & Yorkshire, you will play a key part in providing technical, strategic and corporate leadership for a Directorate of more than 2,000 people, working with colleagues within the Directorate and across HMRC. As well as working with individual businesses, our Deputy Directors Compliance (DDCs) are also responsible for leading significant national projects that cover many customers across multi-layered groups, or specific risk themes.

The Large Business team is responsible for HMRC's compliance work with the largest and most complex business customers; businesses which account for some 40% of HMRC's annual revenues.


Our strategy is applied to the UK's 2,000 most complex businesses, which have each been allocated a Customer Compliance Manager (CCM) reflecting our resource intensive, cooperative compliance approach. Using this approach, we subject these businesses to an exceptional level of scrutiny and are actively investigating around half of them at any one time.

Job description

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.

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. Ensure CPD is up to date and share expertise with HMRC colleagues.

Person specification

The successful candidate will have recent experience of complex tax compliance or working in a complex compliance-based environment

Essential Criteria:

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. Experience of leading complex tax enquiries into matters across different tax regimes including VAT.

Essential Qualifications:

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

Benefits

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Alongside your salary of 81,000, HM Revenue and Customs contributes 23,465 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.Learning and development tailored to your role An environment with flexible working options A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Things you need to know

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Selection process details

Application:

This campaign is being managed by HMRC's Executive Resourcing team. All applications should be submitted via Civil Service Jobs no later than 23:55 on Monday 1st December 2025 and must include:

A CV detailing your career history, key responsibilities and achievements accounting for any employment gaps within the last two years.

Your CV will be assessed against the criteria set out in the person specification. Please include your full name on the document.

Shortlist

The panel will assess the evidence provided in your CV and statement. Candidates whose applications best meet the essential criteria will be selected for interview.

Assessment

If shortlisted, you will take part in the following assessment:

Individual Leadership Assessment

- a combination of psychometric assessments.

Assessments are designed to support the panel's decision making and highlight areas for further exploration at interview and do not result in a pass or fail decision.

Interview

You will attend a panel interview for a more in-depth discussion of your previous experience and professional competence. This will include a 5-minute verbal presentation (further information will be issued in advance).


Interviews are expected to take place in person virtually via Microsoft Teams.

All Criminal Record Checks applications are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.



Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.




As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

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

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.



We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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Contact point for applicants

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Job contact :

Name : Sarah Hawes Email : scs.resourcing@hmrc.gov.uk
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Recruitment team

Email : scs.resourcing@hmrc.gov.uk

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles. You have the right to complain if you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles. In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly with the department concerned. If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitment/complaints/