International Tax Specialist

Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Stratford

Do you have experience in either International Tax or Transfer Pricing? Are you eager to tackle some of the UK's most challenging tax issues and expand your expertise in these areas? Are you ready to make a real impact on the UK’s tax landscape, working with a team of experienced tax specialists?

If so, we have the perfect opportunity 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. This money helps pay for public services in the UK.

Large Business employs around 2,500 people to assure the compliance of HMRC’s 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.

Mid-Sized Business is part of Wealthy and Mid-Sized Business Compliance (WMBC). WMBC is responsible for the tax affairs of customer groups including the UK’s wealthiest individuals, Mid-sized businesses, public bodies and charities. MSB supports and assures the compliance of these businesses, which includes a variety of multinational, complex customer groups and their tax obligations.

We currently have vacancies in Large Business (LB) and Mid-Sized Business (MSB).

As an International Tax Specialist, you will play an integral role in strengthening HMRC’s 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 UK’s 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.

In this role you will have an opportunity to aid capability building of tax specialists through mentoring, training and knowledge sharing and contribute to building of the International Tax community.

Travel may be required from time to time to fulfil this role, for example to attend customer meetings.

• Good recent experience of International Tax or Transfer Pricing work in HMRC, industry or practice.
• Good communication skills – both written and verbal.
• Good stakeholder management and collaboration skills – ability to work across a range of stakeholders both internally and externally.

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…