HM Revenue & Customs
Finance and Systems Assurance Officer
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We have an exciting opportunity to join one of our Financial Accreditation (FA) Teams.
As a principal keyholder of HMRC’s finance systems, we ensure that all changes meet our standards, summarised in five key guardrails, and provide assurance to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) that these standards are upheld. We provide expert advice and support on accounting treatments, financial controls, and risk management to programmes throughout the end-to-end (E2E) change lifecycle, ensuring that all financial aspects of change are robust, compliant, and well-governed.
You will work in a fast-paced environment, building relationships, and providing specialist financial advice and support to assist in driving forward effective transformation of HMRC’s finance systems and processes. You will specify finance requirements for change initiatives and ensure they are delivered.
This will allow HMRC to account for, receive and pay out money in accordance with strategy and Accounting Standards. This role gives an outstanding opportunity to develop key leadership, assurance and collaboration skills.
Our vacancy sits in one of the FA Teams, which forms part of Finance Systems Strategy and Change in Risk, Control & Financial Accountant (RCFA). Our team plays a key role in HMRC Transformation by ensuring excellent financial management and control throughout the HMRC Change process by accrediting changes to financial systems and processes.
As a Finance and Systems Assurance Officer, you will act as the finance assurance stakeholder for change initiatives across HMRC. You will assess proposed solutions, challenge design decisions, define financial requirements and review evidence to determine whether changes meet Financial Accreditation standards and can be delivered safely into the live environment.
Job Description
Become an expert in financial accreditation processes, ensuring high level requirements are met by the Change programme for the portfolio of projects/programmes assigned to you.
- Engage with Subject Matter Experts (SME), across several finance and specialist areas to ensure change requirements are delivered and tested to our standards.
- Being a 'critical friend' with key HMRC Change Delivery programmes, whilst acting in a sensitive and diplomatic manner. Ensuring that the financial journey delivered by the project is safe, secure, auditable and allows HMRC accounts to be produced accurately.
- Communicate with senior management using appropriate styles, methods and timing, to maximise understanding and impact.
You will join a welcoming and accomplished team of accreditors, who have a wide knowledge of tax and finance accounting systems and processes.
Successful candidates will undertake a bespoke training programme enabling you to:
- Represent Finance in a project change environment, introducing and driving forward our requirements.
- Influence 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 programs teams to ensure Finance requirements are understood and developed.
Critically you'll then be assuring the subsequent changes made to ensure that they align with internal and external standards.
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Person Specification
Responsibilities
Working closely with experienced Accreditors, HMRC Change leads and Finance/IT specialists you will be responsible for:
- Leading the accreditation of change initiatives.
- Being a finance project stakeholder ensuring finance requirements are delivered by the project team to attain a safe, secure and auditable financial journey.
- Managing risks, issues and prioritising your own work so that you meet critical deadlines.
- Ensuring that changes made to Finance systems and processes meet Finance strategy.
- Working with an expert team of accreditors, to continually build capability that will ensure efficient delivery that meets the future demands of HMRC.
Essential Criteria
You will need to have:
- Finance skills in one or more of the following areas, risk management, systems, processes, general ledger, or change.
- Ability to assess the financial impact of changes to systems, processes or services and identify associated risks, controls and assurance requirements.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and concisely.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to challenge constructively and build effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple deadlines and conflicting priorities from multiple sources.
- Ability to analyse information, summarise and use judgement on recommendations.
- Actively working towards or willing to complete Level 4 qualification with AAT, CCAB, CIMA or equivalent.
Desirable Criteria
- Ability to demonstrate either project management, audit or assurance skills.
- Experience of working on transformation programmes, in a project change environment or working knowledge of one or more areas of taxation.
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.
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 HMRC’s Moves Adjustment Payment guidance.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Making Effective Decisions
Alongside your salary of £37,682, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £10,916 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
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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Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Ability and Experience.
Stage 1: Short Application form
You Will Be Asked To Complete
- A basic application form, detailing your personal details and confirming whether you meet the eligibility criteria.
Stage 2 - Online tests
After submission of the first stage of your application, you will be invited to complete the Civil Service Verbal Test. If you successfully pass the tests, you will be invited to complete the final stage of the application.
- Please complete these tests as soon as possible (within 24-48 hours is recommended), the closing date for the campaign, including the completion of the full application form, stated below is 01/10/2026 at 23:55.
- If you fail to complete the online tests and full application form before the deadline your application will be withdrawn. Guidance for the tests will be available when you are invited to take them. The tests are administered online and accessed via the CS Jobs website.
- We reserve the right to increase the scores for all tests. You will be informed if you have passed or failed the raised standard.
Successful candidates will be invited to the next stage of the selection process.
Stage 3 - Full Application Form
A name-blind CV including your job history and previous experiences of up to your last 3 roles with no more than 100 words per role.
- A 750-word Personal Statement. Your personal statement should be used to describe how your skills and experience would be suitable for the advertised role, making reference to how you meet the Essential Criteria outlined in the advert.
- Please evidence any Desirable Criteria where applicable (up to 250 words max). This is not essential for the role but may be considered by the vacancy holder where candidates have the same score at interview.
Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.
Sift
In the event of a large number of applications being received, an initial sift may be held on your CV.
- At full sift your CV and your Personal Statement will be assessed, with the successful candidates being invited to interview.
- We may also raise the score required at any stage of the process if we receive a high number of applications.
Interview
During the panel interview, your experience will be assessed and you will be asked Behaviour-based questions to explore in detail what
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