Senior Financial Accountant, HMRC, Southend-on-Sea

About HMRC

HMRC is the UK's tax, payments and customs authority and we have a vital purpose: we collect the money that pays for the UK’s public services and help families and individuals with targeted financial support.

About Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance fulfils a vital role at the heart of HMRC. We are responsible for ensuring that HMRC plans and manages its performance, makes good decisions and is held to account on accurate financial and performance data. Our activity helps HMRC account excellently for everything HMRC does.

Your Role

As part of Corporate Finance, you will take up a key position within the External Reporting and Analysis Team, playing a crucial role in providing both Financial and Management information across all areas of the Department, accounting for over £600bn of tax revenue.

Your role provides an excellent opportunity to work within a small future focused team, helping to drive the transformation of tax accounting, initially by working on changes required through EU Exit.
As an experienced accountant you will aid transformation and at the same time, gain assurance that the newly developed systems and processes will correctly account for tax, and report accurate data.

Over the next 3/4 years HMRC will be transforming its tax accounting by moving everything from old legacy accounting systems onto a modern IT platform. This will support HMRCs goal to become one of the most digitally advanced tax administrations in the world. Additionally, EU Exit and devolution will motivate changes to the way we account for certain taxes.

Key Responsibilities

This is a pivotal time for you to join HMRC Finance, and will provide a unique and useful insight into the work HMRC undertakes, in the collection and accounting for taxes.

The key areas of responsibility are recognised as but are not limited to:

• Providing expert accounting advice and support to teams responsible for signing off HMRC system/process changes on risks/issues and appropriate financial controls, to ensure accounts production requirements are met, maintaining a future focused readiness for the development of EU Exit accounting systems;

• Working with partners to ensure that any recommendations from NAO auditors and EU inspectors in relation to Accounting systems and processes are dealt with in a timely and effective manner; providing helpful, professional advice on complex accounting issues;

• Ensuring all regulatory and statutory requirements are met and HMRC policies and procedures are adhered to;

• Maintaining a detailed overview of account production processes and data flows relevant to the tax accounts, monitoring any areas of risk identified;

• Working alongside, and assisting, other Senior Financial Accountants, helping to resolve problems and covering workloads when required.

Essential Criteria:

• Minimum of two years post qualification experience;
• Experience of accounts preparation and taking care of auditors;
• Good working knowledge of accounting standards;
• Excellent communication and report writing skills;
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and concisely.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of using SAP/Oracle;
• Experience of IT systems development;
• Public sector finance experience;

Qualifications

Full professional qualification through one of the following six bodies:

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