HM Revenue & Customs
Senior Intellectual Property Valuation Specialist
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Based in Nottingham and part of Business, Assets and International - Assets, Residence and Valuation (AR&V), Shares and Assets Valuation's (SAV) job is to provide specialist valuations on everything from chattels and livestock, to shares and intellectual property as part of HMRC compliance activity.
Job Description
The role of a Senior Intellectual Property Valuation Specialist involves providing specialist valuation expertise when working with other stakeholders across HMRC on the most high profile cases, as well as negotiating effectively with customers and their appointed valuation experts. Your role is within the Intangibles and Intellectual Property Team, specialising in the valuation of goodwill, software, licenses and intellectual property such as trademarks, patents and technical know-how.
Most valuations you take responsibility of will involve multi-national enterprises and require the need to consider international tax issues such as transfer pricing and fair value accounting.
You will provide leadership on valuation matters, leading on the largest and most complex referrals, including those within the High Risk Corporate Programme. Using strong stakeholder management and influencing skills you will engage with senior internal and external stakeholders, providing challenge where appropriate, and take a key role in identifying, managing and communicating valuation risks to senior leaders and governance forums including Tax Assurance Commissioners.
You will engage confidently with customers on complex valuation and tax technical matters, communicating effectively both verbally and in writing. You will use your expert valuation knowledge alongside your negotiation skills to influence outcomes, resolve disputes and support the delivery of HMRC's objectives.
You will represent HMRC at International forums, discussing valuation principles with other tax authorities.
You will play a key role in supporting and developing other valuers, which may include attending both internal and external meetings. You will assist in building valuation capability and expertise across the wider team.
The role of a Senior Intellectual Property Valuation Specialist in business valuation is encompassed within the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). If not already, as part of the role we will support you in becoming a member and completing the RICS Assessment of Professional Competence for the Business Valuation Faculty leading to full RICS membership.
Person specification
As a Senior Intellectual Property Valuation Specialist, you will lead on the following:-
- Taking ownership on the valuation of a number of high value, complex and sensitive valuations.
- Working with HMRC's Customer Compliance Group, particularly Large Business and Mid-sized Business and collaborating with HMRC's Technical teams including Accountancy and Transfer Pricing where valuation issues arise.
- Developing a deep understanding of the evolving valuation principles involved in this area of work whilst collaborating with other Intellectual Property Valuation Specialists by sharing technical knowledge and providing coaching.
- Be integral in upskilling the team, providing technical support where appropriate while acting as a strong role model.
- Represent HMRC at international forums with other tax authorities.
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Essential Criteria:
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills.
- Excellent evidence-based decision-making skills and confidence in owning and communicating those decisions.
- Substantial experience and understanding of intellectual property within a complex valuation or international tax environment.
Please also refer to the Mandatory Qualifications
Qualifications
- RICS (Associate (AssocRICS) or Member (MRICS))
- Advanced Diploma in International Taxation (ADIT) or Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA)
- Successfully completed the HMRC Tax Specialist Programme or one of its predecessors (TPDP, IDP, ITS2, CPT, FT2) or
- Be able to demonstrate significant experience of intellectual property within a complex valuation or international tax environment.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £71,725, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £20,778 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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How To Apply
As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:
- A name-blind CV. This should cover your job history for your last 5 roles with a brief summary of what you have delivered and any key achievements in each role relating to the job role (max 100 words per role). You will be scored on your CV's relevance and suitability.
- A 750-word Personal Statement. Your Personal Statement (max 750 words) should show how your skills and experience meet the Personal Specification and Essential Criteria. This should focus on your impacts and outcomes.
Sift
At 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.
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Interviews will take place via video link.
Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.
Please note that circumstances may arise that require the planned interview format to change. We will endeavour to provide you with as much notice of any change as possible.
Eligibility
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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.
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Reserve List
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made for the same or similar roles - if this applies to you, we'll let you know via your Civil Service Jobs account.
Merit List
After interview, a single merit list will be created, and appointments will be made in strict merit order until the set demand is filled. If successful, you will be informed when we reach your position on the merit list.
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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).
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