Advisory Accountant

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HMRC are the UK’s tax, payments, and customs authority. Our vital purpose is to collect the money that pays for the UK’s public services. We help families and individuals with targeted financial support. Being impartial and increasingly effective and efficient in our administration, we help the honest majority to get their tax right and make it hard for the dishonest minority to cheat the system.

The Customer Compliance Group (CCG) brings all our compliance customer segment directorates into one group: Large Business, Wealthy and Mid-sized Businesses, Individuals and Small Businesses.

The group also includes several teams who work across business segments such as Fraud Investigation Service (FIS), Counter Avoidance (CA) and Risk & Intelligent Service (RIS).

CCG ensures that HMRC collects the full and correct amount of money due from UK taxpayers, investigates offenses against the tax system and takes action to identify and mitigate potential threats.

We strive to provide fair, lawful and impartial service by putting the customer experience at the heart of our compliance work. In CCG, we deliver on HMRC Charter commitments by applying the Compliance Professional Standards consistently to all of our work.

We commit to being professional, acting with integrity, showing respect and being innovative. We take real pride in making HMRC a great place to work, investing in our employees’ skills and career development, creating modern, state-of-the-art facilities, and offering a range of flexible working patterns and benefits.

We want everyone to feel valued, supported, and comfortable being their true self at work. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive employer, supporting social mobility giving opportunities to people no matter what their background. We have several staff diversity networks that cover race, disability, LGBTQ, gender, and carers.

You’ll be able join any of these networks when you join us and getting involved is easy.

We’ll give you the support you need to grow in confidence, help you enjoy your time inside and outside the workplace ensuring you have a good work-life balance. We believe that we are a great place to work.

Job description

Are you a qualified accountant with strong financial accounting experience from working in practice or industry?
 
Will you bring commercial knowledge and an understanding of how businesses operate, and how accounting standards apply to complex transactions?

Would the offer of hybrid working, actual flexitime and genuine work-life balance alongside fascinating technical work interest you?  

If so, we can offer you a role that offers exciting and challenging work that has real impacts on Government tax policy decisions and makes a huge difference to the nation’s finances.  

Our team of 150 accountants support HMRC’s Customer Compliance Group and have previously worked in varied roles in practice or industry, including audit and financial accounting positions.  Equivalent roles in the private sector will include managers in Big 4 Practice and financial accountants in industry.  

As an Advisory Accountant, you will:  

• Provide accounting advice for complex accountancy issues - analysing relevant customer facts, accounting frameworks and, where appropriate, challenge customers’ accounting analyses.
• Meet with customers and work with other specialists to form a view and assess the impact of the accounting treatment for tax.
• Support litigation, acting as an expert witness, case accountant or witness of fact and be proactive in assisting others involved in litigation.
• You will prepare and review professional reports with both factual and opinion evidence, attend case conferences, meetings and court acting with professionalism, integrity and independence.
• Develop and provide quality accountancy training to accountancy and tax professionals, offering follow-up support to delegates.
• Coach and mentor colleagues.
• Share knowledge and best practice, using innovative methods and digital tools.
• Demonstrate leadership, expertise, and authority to credibly engage with key stakeholders including agents, tribunals, colleagues, customers, and senior HMRC officers.

Person specification

Strong financial accounting experience gained and consolidated in either practice, industry, public sector or private sector, dealing with a range of stakeholders, and specifically including:  

• Experience of analysing and interpreting a range of financial records.
• Experience of preparing or reviewing financial statements.
• Clear understanding of accounting principles and the application of GAAP in the UK.
• Experience of considering the appropriate accounting treatment of a variety of specific transactions.
• Strong communication skills, including delivery of reports or briefings to senior stakeholders.
• Commercial knowledge and an understanding of how businesses operate including accounting systems.

Essential Criteria:

You must already have full and complete qualification from, and continuing membership of, one of the following professional accounting bodies:

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).
• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS)
• Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI)
• The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
• The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
• The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA)

Please Note: Part qualified accountants are not eligible for these posts.

Qualifications

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW).
• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS)
• Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI)
• The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
• The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
• The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA)

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• The interview will include an accountancy based technical test (to include both a presentation and a written output).

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £54,439, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £15,770 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

HMRC operates both Flexible and Hybrid Working policies, allowing you to balance your work and personal commitments. We welcome applications from those who need to work a more flexible arrangement and will agree to requests where possible, considering our operational and customer service needs. 

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. 

• Pension - We make contributions to our colleagues’ Alpha pension equal to at least 28.97% of their salary.
• Family friendly policies.
• Personal support.
• Coaching and development. 

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