HM Revenue & Customs
Finance and Systems Senior Assurance Officer
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About Us
Our Finance Analyst (FA) teams have three strategic objectives: to act as the finance keyholders for HMRC change programmes; to provide assurance to the CFO that changes to systems and processes meet finance requirements; and to build and sustain a high-performing team that supports wider government economic aims through HMRC’s work.
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.
Role Overview
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. You will work closely with colleagues and stakeholders to ensure that we design the systems and processes to support the delivery of change through key milestones by effectively managing risks, caveats, High Level requirements and produce monthly progress reports through development and production of KPI’s along with looking at ways of innovating our process.
Job Description
Lead all aspects of financial accreditation of the portfolio of projects/programmes assigned to you, ensuring high level requirements are met by the Change programme. Engage with SMEs, across several finance and specialist areas to ensure change requirements are delivered and tested to our standards. Provide expert advice and become 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. Acting as a mentor or line manager to more junior financial accreditation team members as the need arises.
You will join a welcoming and accomplished team of accreditors, who have a wide knowledge of tax and finance accounting systems and processes.
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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 programme 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.
We do this throughout the project lifecycle process, providing accreditation and assurance for changes to HMRCs financial systems and processes.
Person Specification
Being a finance project stakeholder ensuring finance requirements are delivered by the project team to attain a safe, secure and auditable financial journey. Experienced in managing risks, issues and prioritising your own work so that you manage multiple deadlines. Experienced in analysing information, summarising and using judgement on recommendations. 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.
Important: The role can require frequent travel including overnight stays, sometimes at short notice.
Essential Criteria
Good understanding of accounting principles and standards. Experience of working in a finance, project, audit or assurance role. A strong team player and independent analytical problem solver who builds effective working relationships, identifies solutions, and takes ownership to see tasks through to completion. Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all levels and explain technical concepts clearly and concisely. Experience of managing multiple deadlines and competing priorities from multiple sources. Experience of analysing information, summarising and using judgement to make recommendations. Ability to line manage and supervise the work of another member of the team.
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.
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.
Qualifications To be eligible for this role, you must be actively working towards a Level 4 qualification with AAT, CCAB, CIMA or equivalent.
Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Making Effective Decisions Communicating and Influencing Managing a Quality Service
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Benefits
Alongside your salary of £50,686 (London) or £45,544 (Nationwide) 28.97% contribution also by HMRC Pension Scheme of your base salary Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window)
How to Apply
After submission of the first stage of your application, you will be invited to complete a Civil Service Verbal Test. If you successfully pass the test, you will be invited to complete the final stage of the application.
Please complete the online tests as soon as possible (within 24-48 hours is recommended) and ensure you allow sufficient time to complete and submit the final stage of your application after submitting your online test.
The deadline for both the test and the application is 23:55 on 30/06/2026. As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:
A name-blind CV including your job history and previous experiences.
A 750-word Personal Statement which should be used to describe how your skills and experience would be suitable for the advertised role, making reference to the Essential Criteria and Person Specification as 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 Personal Statement.
At full sift your Personal Statement and your CV 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, you will be asked to prepare and deliver a 5-minute Presentation to assess your Skills and Experience, and how you will add value to this position. You will also be asked questions in order to assess your Experience.
You will be asked behaviour-based questions on Making Effective Decisions, Communicating and Influencing and Managing a Quality Service to explore in detail what you are capable of and strength-based questions to explore what you enjoy and your motivations relevant to the job role. This is an example of a strengths-based question:
“It is often said that the customer's needs should come first. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?” There is no expectation or requirement for you to prepare for the strengths-based questions in advance of the interview, though you may find it helpful to spend some time reflecting on what you enjoy doing and what you do well.
Interviews will take place virtually video link. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
Online Tests – Banked Scores
When an applicant has a banked score they are not asked to retake the same test, providing it is:
set at the same job level, and within the same system.
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