You will join a welcoming and accomplished team of accreditors, who have a wide knowledge of tax and finance accounting systems and processes.  
 
You will be a stakeholder for Risk, Controls and Financial Accounting (RCFA) representing and working with finance areas and to ensure change requirements are delivered and tested to our exacting standards. You will hold responsibility for making sure that the financial journey delivered by the project is safe, secure, auditable and allows HMRC accounts to be produced accurately.    
 
Successful candidates will undertake a bespoke training programme. enabling you to:  

• Represent RCFA in a project change environment, introducing and driving forward our requirements.  
• Influencing the financial accreditation process as the team adapts to the pace of HMRC Change and the way we deliver Financial Accreditation.  
• Develop the skills needed to build co-operative partnerships with project and programme teams to ensure finance requirements are understood and developed. 
 
While this isn’t an accounting role, knowledge of accounting and/or accounting systems would be advantageous.       
 
As a department committed to continuous professional development this role will also provide you with opportunities to learn, expand or further develop knowledge to support you reach your potential. 

Person specification

We will support you to develop your skills so that you can lead on the accreditation of small/low risk changes and/or work in partnership with Senior Officers to accredit more complex, higher risk changes, developing an extensive range of contacts and being involved in a wide variety of subjects, which reach across the whole of HMRC.  
 
We want you to lead/work in partnership with Senior Officers to develop and introduce the finance requirements to be delivered by the project, to meet finance standards. Ensuring that changes to HMRC accounting systems and processes are robustly tested and test evidence is analysed. 
 
You will do this by:  

• Maintaining engagement with the project team throughout the project change cycle to ensure risks and issues are managed, prioritising yours and your teams work so that you meet critical deadlines.  
• Working with an expert team of accreditors, subject matter experts and IT specialists, to make sure requirements are delivered.  
• Providing updates and summaries of documents to support seniors on Project Boards or when senior decisions are needed.  

Important: The role can require frequent travel including overnight stays, sometimes at short notice.  
 
Essential Criteria: 

• Highly developed interpersonal skills with evidence of influencing and engaging with senior partners in a large, dispersed organisation. 
• Demonstrate one or more of working in a project, finance, audit, or assurance role.  
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and concisely.  
• Strong leadership, communication, and relationship-building skills.  
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines and conflicting priorities.  
• Ability to analyse information, summarise and use your own judgement to make recommendations.  

Desirable Criteria:

• Worked in a project change environment.  
• Working knowledge of one or more areas of taxation  
• Good knowledge of accounting and project management principles, including desirable qualifications as follows:  
• Part/fully qualified accountant (CIMA or equivalent).  
• Part/fully qualified Association of Accounting Technician (AAT).  
• Audit qualification(s).  
• Project Management qualification(s) 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,092, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £9,474 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 27% of their salary.
•    Family friendly policies.
•    Personal support.
•    Coaching and development.

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