• Provide objective and independent accounting advice relating to criminal and civil investigations and anti-money laundering interventions, including acting as an independent expert witness.
• Support activities targeting alcohol, supply chain and duty evasion fraud utilising your commercial experience.
• Communicate with and advise internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop, support and provide quality bespoke accountancy training to key partners.
• Coach and mentor colleagues.
• Share knowledge and best practice, using innovative methods and digital tools.
• Demonstrate expertise, experience, and authority to credibly engage with courts, tribunals, accountants, colleagues, customers, and senior HMRC officers.

Essential Criteria

The candidate will have strong financial accounting experience gained in practice, industry, public sector or private sector and specifically including:

• Experience of analysing and interpreting a range of financial records, of preparing or reviewing financial statements and of considering the appropriate accounting treatment of a variety of specific transactions (applying UK GAAP).
• Commercial knowledge and an understanding of how businesses operate including accounting systems.
• Excellent digital skills including the ability to use Excel and other tools for complex analysis.
• Attention to detail and precise analytical skills; ability to review information, figures and calculations thoroughly to draw clear, concise conclusions and accurately identify accountancy risks.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to produce high quality written outputs.
• Mandatory Accountancy Qualifications and memberships are required for this role (see below for details).

Desirable Criteria

Experience of Forensic accounting, Money Laundering issues and Illicit Finance issues would be beneficial to the role.

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.

Office Closures

If your location preference is for the following site, it’s important to note that this is not a long-term site 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.

This Site Is

• Lynx House, Portsmouth – moving to an alternative office in Portsmouth.

You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.

Qualifications

You must already have full and complete qualification from and continuing membership of one of the following professional accounting bodies:

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)
• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS)
• Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI)
• The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
• The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
• The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA)

Please Note: Part qualified accountants are not eligible for these posts.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing

Technical Skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Technical statement will be required at application stage.

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.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.

Hybrid working at HMRC

HMRC is an office-based organisation, and colleagues are expected to spend 60% of their working time in the office. Our offices provide opportunity for interaction, collaboration which aids learning and development and a sense of community. Where the role allows it, and where the home environment is suitable, colleagues can work from home for up to 2 days a week, averaged over a calendar month (or a proportionate amount of time for colleagues who work less than full time).

For more information and to apply, please visit our website via the apply button below.