Senior International Tax Specialist

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Do you have experience ineithercomplex Transfer Pricing or complex 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!  

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.

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.

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.

Essential Criteria

• 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:

• Chartered Tax Adviser (CIOT)

• Advanced Diploma in International Taxation (CIOT)

• AIIT (including Paper 4*)

• A Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) membership qualification including:

• Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales (ICAEW),  
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland (ICAS) 
• Institute of Chartered Accountants Ireland (ICAI) 

• Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) 
• Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)

• Post Graduate full legal qualification - in taxation matters

• For previous or existing HMRC employees TSP or predecessor qualification (TPDP, IDP, ITS2, CPT FT2) - (note - existing HMRC employees would only be eligible if they have completed the appropriate course to get them to G7 level (or above) as a tax professional).

• 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) with direct tax professional experience.    

• Equivalent overseas degrees/professional qualifications to the qualifications noted above.

The panel may consider candidates who can demonstrate a level of professional expertise and technical capability that is demonstrably equivalent to the qualifications listed above. This would normally be evidenced through substantial and sustained senior-level experience applying transfer pricing and/or international tax rules to complex financial transactions within the financial services sector. Any such consideration would be assessed rigorously on its own merits against the standards expected of the specified qualifications.

Further Location Information

Please ensure that you only apply for a location that you are willing and able to work from, as we will only make one offer of employment. Any additional notes included in a Further Location Preferences (optional) field within the application form, will not be considered. Please be aware that you cannot change your location preference after submitting your application.

Office closures

For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.

If your location preference is for one of the following sites, its important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.

These sites are:

• Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle

You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.

Leeds Locations

Moves Adjustment Payment will be available for this role, provided the successful applicant is a current HMRC colleague in Bradford and meets the eligibility requirements outlined in the HMRCs Moves Adjustment Payment guidance.