You Will Ensure The Team Delivers Its Ambitious Objectives Leading a Culture Of Innovation, Customer Service And Professionalism.

More Specifically You Will

• Provide support to the IGP team on technical advice and leading on the team's most challenging technical issues.
• Joint lead on high profile insolvency work such as provisional liquidations and Part 26A restructuring plans.
• Have oversight in supporting insolvency operations to increase engagement with Insolvency Service and Companies House on joint initiatives to tackle contrived insolvency and abusive phoenixism risks.
• Manage relations and service provision with insolvency leads in specific HMRC directorates.
• Work with specific HMRC directorates:
  • To develop and maintain HMRC guidance for the external insolvency profession.
  • To ensure insolvency is considered in both developing new tax and insolvency policy areas.
  • To modernise and reform internal processes for both internal and external insolvency professionals.

You will contribute to other areas of IGP's work, building the team's capability to enable them to deliver the teams commitments.

• Developing, quality assuring and delivering internal learning, including the quality assuring of learning material for Years 3 & 4 of the Insolvency Profession Exam Programme (IPEP).
• Drafting, and quality assuring, guidance, and technical material for internal dissemination.
• Contributing to policy reviews.

The post offers a unique opportunity to use your experience and skills to make your mark in a critically important function for HMRC, and the UK, working with a motivated team of insolvency experts. You will influence the direction and capability of the UK's most significant creditor in insolvency proceedings, ranging widely across HMRC and other stakeholders to reduce billions of pounds in tax debt write offs, tackle those who misuse company structures to evade tax, and improve the customer journey for insolvency practitioners.

Applicants who wish to work alternative working patterns are welcome to apply. The preferred working pattern may or may not be available, agreement will be subject to business need, and any request to work an alternative working pattern must be made and agreed prior to your acceptance of the provisional offer.

Person Specification

You will be resourceful and self-motivated and have great people skills. You are most likely to be non-co-located with IGP colleagues or your manager so you will need to be resilient, adaptable and organised. As part of a small team, working within a larger directorate, you will need to show flexibility and planning.

Developing others and supporting them to succeed will motivate you. You will need strong communication, problem-solving and teamworking skill. You will thrive on supporting a small team in delivering its wide range of challenging objectives, driving up quality and ensuring that HMRC's insolvency professionals have access to the best advice and support.

Essential Criteria

The vacancy is for an insolvency profession specialist post. You must be able to demonstrate an expert knowledge of insolvency regimes, HMRC's powers as a creditor and how HMRC can work with insolvency practitioners to deliver HMRC's functions.

You must also already have passed;

• HMRC - Insolvency Profession Exam Programme (IPEP)
• IPA Certificate of Proficiency in Insolvency
• IPA Certificate of Proficiency in Personal Insolvency and Certificate of Proficiency in Corporate Insolvency
• ICAEW certificate in Insolvency
• Joint Insolvency Exam
• An Insolvency Service equivalent qualification

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.

Additional Security Information

Please note that if you are appointed to 100 Parliament Street, as a condition of working in this location you will be required to obtain Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) level clearance.

To obtain this level of clearance, you will normally need to meet the minimum UK residency period, which for CTC is 3 years UK residency prior to your vetting application.

You may not be able to start in the location until clearance is granted.

If you have any questions about this residency requirement, please speak to the vacancy holder for this post.

Office Closures

For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.

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.

These Sites Are

• Waterview Park, Washington - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle
• Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle
• 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.

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:

• Working Together

Technical Skills

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

• Presentation

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. 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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