Job Description
Do you have excellent leadership skills and a strong understanding of tax policy? Are you looking for a new role in a highly dynamic, flexible and interesting place to work?
Want to make an application Make sure your CV is up to date, then read the following job specs carefully before applying.
We are recruiting for the role of Deputy Director - VAT and Excise to lead on a high-profile portfolio of work at the heart of HM Treasury's tax agenda.
In this role, your key accountabilities will include:
- Playing an active role in leadership of the group through membership of the BIT Group Management Team: promoting inclusion and wellbeing, playing a visible role connecting the Group with colleagues across the Treasury, and leading on corporate projects as needed.
- Leading the team, managing resourcing and supporting wellbeing to ensure a successful and effective team.
- Setting strategy for indirect tax in the context of HM Treasury's objectives for the tax system as a whole, including taking advantage of flexibilities in an indirect tax regime free from EU law.
- Advising the Chancellor and other Treasury Ministers on all aspects of the portfolio, building relationships of trust and ensuring high-quality, evidence-led advice which balances challenging objectives and priorities.
- Building outstanding and influential relationships
- Leading the UK's indirect tax relationships with international partners, in particular the OECD, to deliver UK priorities and shape international thinking on cross-border tax issues.
- Negotiating with the EU to achieve specific UK objectives on indirect tax.
We are looking for an outstanding leader and relationship builder with a track record of leading diverse teams to maintain motivation and performance.
Some of the Benefits our people love!
- 25 days' annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King's birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant)
- Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
- A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%
- Access to parental leave packages
- Onsite restaurant and coffee bar. The London office also offers a gym, showers and prayer room
- Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme, season ticket advances and payroll giving
- Access to a retail discounts and cashback site
- A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help meet the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes
- A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity (e.g. women in the Treasury, ethnic minority network, LGBT network, faith and belief network)
Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of appointment based on fair and open competition and appointment on merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners' Recruitment Principles. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact HMT Recruitment Team.
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.