To apply direct for this role please visit civil service jobs We have an exciting opportunity to join HMRC's Financial Controls Assurance Team (FCAT).
You will work in a fast-paced environment, building relationships, and providing specialist process risks and controls advice and assurance on HMRC processes to administer UK taxes, duties and benefits.
Our exciting and interesting role would suit anyone who wants to work in a controls assurance environment, who has a desire to develop their knowledge of HMRC tax systems and processes.
The role will suit you if you like to collaborate with a range of stakeholders, are confident and able to articulate your view in a room of peers, assess processes and risks, appropriately challenge and want to make a difference by supporting continuous improvements to HMRC internal control environment.
This role gives an outstanding opportunity to develop key leadership, risk assessment, assurance and collaboration skills.
Important: This vacancy is only available at the specified locations; alternative locations are not available.
Your office location is contractual so if you are successful, there is an expectation that you will attend that office a minimum of 60% of your available working time.
About Us FCAT is part of Risk, Control & Financial Accounting Directorate within the HMRC Chief Finance Officer Group.
The Directorates vision in relation to assurance is to help steer HMRC towards a better understanding of its key risks and to ensure these are well controlled.
We are a small geographically-dispersed team whose remit extends across all HMRC taxes, duties and benefits processes, and all corporate processes which ultimately lead to payments in/out, or entries in the published HMRC financial statements.
We cover all processes in the customer journey including registrations, returns/declarations/claims, payments in, payments out, penalties, interest and debts.
We provide expert advice and challenge to help keep HMRC safe by assuring that robust financial controls, are designed and operating in processes and systems to mitigate internal fraud, external fraud, error and money laundering risks.
Job description The role involves: Working with an assigned portfolio of higher risk and complex Change projects with different timelines and implementation dates.
Influencing Change projects to meet standards for process controls and segregation of duties before their live implementation dates.
Working with assigned Business Groups to ensure they identify key risks and manage controls appropriately.
Providing expert advice, challenge and assurance, to ensure sufficient controls are embedded into the design and operation of processes.
Developing assurance plans and leading on assurance assignments.
Providing written updates and drafting briefing papers to support seniors on Governance Boards or when senior decisions are needed.
Providing support to team colleagues where needed, including cover during leave periods.
The role may include HR management responsibilities.
The role will involve some travel with occasional overnight stays.
The scope of our work excludes Project Management and project risk management.
Intelligence/business analysis.
Financial management (forecasting, budgeting, monitoring expenditure, process costs, reports production etc).
Accountancy.
Security Process and data mapping.
Dynamic/organisation-level risks.
Person specification They will Be a highly motivated self-starter who thrives on working in a fast-paced, dynamic demand-led environment.
Pro-actively manage their own workload and responsibilities, demonstrating effective leadership to manage multiple deadlines and conflicting priorities to ensure HMRC controls and segregation standards are met.
Have highly developed interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence, with evidence of excellent influencing in a large organisation.
Thrive on collaborating with team colleagues and Change projects / operational Business Groups across HMRC at a variety of grades, influencing stakeholders and building effective relationships to ensure robust controls and segregation are delivered in new/changing processes.
Be resilient when faced with work pressures and challenge, and confident in situations where there is no existing clear precedent, understanding both the detail and the bigger picture.
Have an inquiring mind and apply strong analytical/evaluation skills to understand processes being assured and segregation risks, identifying risk exposures / control weaknesses and working collaboratively to agree solutions.
Be passionate about making a difference by improving internal controls.
Be an excellent and credible communicator - proficient at simplifying complex concepts, tailoring communications to fit the audience and presenting facts (including assurance results) and recommendations verbally and in clear, succinct and persuasive papers.
Take pride in their work and seek to continually improve team processes and enhance the HMRC standards for controls and segregation.
The successful candidate is expected to: Remain in post for a minimum of 2 years.
Complete Government Counter Fraud training on Fraud Risk Assessments.
Essential Criteria Highly developed interpersonal skills with evidence of influencing, constructively challenging and engaging with senior partners in a large, dispersed organisation.
Ability to manage multiple, often changing, deadlines and conflicting priorities.
A broad understanding of the principles of process risk management and controls assurance.
Ability to communicate complex concepts simply and concisely.
Desirable Criteria Membership of the Government Counter Fraud profession.
Professional qualifications in Internal Auditing or Risk Management.
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