Deputy Director VAT Policy (VAT Reliefs & Financial Services and Insurance Premium Tax)
HM Revenue and Customs
Apply before 11:55 pm on Tuesday 7th May 2024
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Job summary
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.
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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
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.
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Selection process details
To apply for this post, you will need to complete an online application by submitting the following:
- A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years.
- A Statement of Suitability explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the criteria in the person specification.
Your CV and Statement of Suitability should reflect your most relevant and recent skills and experience in relation to the role. Therefore, we recommend that each document is no more than two A4 pages long.
By not submitting a CV and a Statement of Suitability will mean we only have limited information to assess your application against the person specification. Please ensure both documents contain your full name.
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.
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.
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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Job contact :
- Name : Sarah Hawes
- Email : scs.resourcing@hmrc.gov.uk
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- Email : scs.resourcing@hmrc.gov.uk
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