HM Revenue & Customs
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Job Description
Sitting within the Financial Management Division within the CDIO Strategic Services Division, this role is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated, proactive finance professional, who enjoys working in a dynamic and challenging environment, to both deliver exceptional finance service and to lead and influence organisational change through strong financial management.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing specialist financial advice – engaging with IT experts and providing advice on key financial planning, processes, and budget setting.
- Taking responsibility for providing financial information to the business with clear advice and recommendations, using all available data and analytics tools.
- Supporting the development and implementation of credible financial plans that are consistent with HMRCs strategic direction, performance and delivery plans.
- Attending and influencing senior leader boards and committees, providing robust challenge that considers the wider financial position of both the CDIO Group and HMRC.
- Involved at the start of the idea pipeline, engaging early in solution development and supporting the creation and approval of business cases through strong financial insight throughout the process.
- Driving evidence-based decisions through challenging and supporting the business to enhance decision-making,
- Providing coaching and feedback proactively to identify gaps in the financial knowledge of the business and finance colleagues and increasing performance through informed and objective advice.
- Horizon scanning to identify potential issues and helping CDIO directorates develop financially viable solutions.
- Management of team members and/or oversight of others work and developing leadership skills within and across teams.
- Driving cultural change to improve SSD leadership by role-modelling behaviours that inspire, motivate, empower, support, celebrate successes and tackle inappropriate behaviour/ poor performance.
- Influencing and driving cultural change to improve financial information, innovation, processes, systems, assurance and financial capability.
- Working collaboratively and building strong relationships with the HMRC Transformation Portfolio, Programme and Finance community, to influence and drive finance effective change.
Essential Criteria
- CCAB (includes CIMA, ACCA CIPFA, ACA) or equivalent fully qualified chartered accountant.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate financial data into meaningful insight to support analysis and decision making.
- Excellent IT/Excel, oral and written skills.
- Proven experience of working in a large and complex organisation.
- Excellent collaboration skills with the ability to support wider business stakeholders.
- Confident communicator, comfortable with robustly challenging senior business leaders and decision-makers.
- Ability to work in a culture of change, to think strategically and work comfortably with risk.
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Desirable Criteria
- Understanding of ERP systems.
- Previous experience of working within or supporting an IT organisation from a finance perspective.
- Previous experience of working within a public sector or not-for-profit organisation's finance team.
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.
Office Closures
If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it’s important to note that these are not long-term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.
- Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle
- Telford Plaza, Telford - moving to Parkside Court, Telford
You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.
Leeds Location
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
- CCAB Fully Qualified Chartered Accountant with CIMA, ACCA CIPFA, ACA or equivalent UK professional body.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Leadership
- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
Technical Skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Technical Skills question relating to the key responsibilities listed in the advert.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £58,541, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £16,959 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
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.
How To Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:
- A name-blind CV including your job history, Qualifications and previous experiences.
- A 1000-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 the Essential Criteria and Person Specification 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.
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Online Tests
After submission of the first stage of your application, you will be invited to complete a Civil Service Verbal Test and a Civil Service Numerical 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 20/10/2026
Please be aware that the Online Tests on this campaign will not be accessible during the hours of 4pm to 7pm on Sunday 11th October 2026
Please do not attempt to launch the test during those times, as you may experience technical issues and we may not be able to assist you before the closing date and time.
Eligibility
Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. Mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we may not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form, or have withdrawn yourself in error and need your application reinstated whilst the campaign is still live, please contact us via: unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk – Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example – ‘Please re-open my application – [insert vacancy ref] & vacancy closing date [insert date]’.
To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before submitting your application.
Exceptionally, candidates who are not successful at this grade may be considered for appointment to similar roles at a lower grade where the eligibility criteria are met. If this applies, we will contact you directly.
Contact point for applicants
Job Contact
Name : Josie Mulhern
Email : josie.mulhern@hmrc.gov.uk
Recruitment team
Email : unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk
Further information
Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. You have the right to complain if you feel there has been a breach of the Recruitment Principles.
In the first instance, you should raise the matter directly via ubsrecruitmentcomplaints@hmrc.gov.uk. Please note that we do not accept complaints or appeals regarding scoring of outcomes of campaigns unless candidates can provide clear evidence that the campaign did not follow the Recruitment Principles.
If you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their website.
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