Overview
Deputy Director Corporation Tax Strategy & Transformation – Birmingham
About the job
Job summary
HMRC is the UK’s tax and customs department. We collect the money that pays for the UK’s public services and provides financial support to people. Our work is central to the business of government and we’re proud of our track record. We’re an historic and yet modern department, undergoing ambitious transformation which affects all our colleagues and customers.
Due to the complexity and direction of the role, if you would like to enquire about the role prior to applying please email scs.resourcing@hmrc.gov.uk
In Customer Strategy and Tax Design, we are working to build a trusted, modern tax administration system- one that brings in revenue for public services, makes it easy to get it right, is valued and trusted, and which promotes sustainable economic growth.
Business Assets and International (BAI) is a policy directorate made up of around 500 colleagues overseeing various taxes and duties, including corporation tax, Stamp Duty Land Tax, inheritance tax, capital gains tax and aspects of income tax. The work of the directorate is high profile and often in the news.
The largest tax for which BAI is responsible is corporation tax which brings in around £90 billion annually for the Exchequer. This challenging and exciting role is responsible for establishing and developing a team that will lead corporation tax transformation and regime ownership in HMRC.
Job description
This exciting opportunity is for a highly motivated and experienced leader to join CS&TD’s Business Assets and International Directorate as the Deputy Director for Corporation Tax Strategy and Transformation. In this critical role, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping the future of Corporation Tax administration in the UK, directly impacting revenue collection, customer experience, and public trust. You will design and implement key strategic initiatives, drive change, and lead a team to deliver exceptional results.
- Driving Regime Ownership: Embed corporation tax regime ownership across the end to end regime. Regime ownership is a key departmental priority within the directorate and you will also be required to influence the wider departmental model. This includes leading secretariats, developing and maintaining data dashboards, overseeing the corporation tax strategy and ensuring robust analysis and evidence based decision making to improve the health of the corporation tax regime through small change.
- Leading Strategic Transformation: Develop and implement a strategy to modernise Corporation Tax, aiming to maximise revenue, simplify compliance, provide great customer experience and foster public trust. This includes supporting current technological change and developing a future vision in line with HMRC’s Transformation Roadmap.
- Leadership and Culture: Lead a new team of multi-skilled specialists spread across the UK. You will be responsible for the team’s budget and will contribute to the BAI Senior Leadership Team, fostering a positive, inclusive, and high-performing culture.
- Strategic Collaboration: Work with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders-including Ministers, software providers, and other HMRC business areas and other government departments-to ensure effective end-to-end service delivery and address regime risks.
Person specification
The successful applicant will need to demonstrate relevant experience and effective delivery of the following essential criteria:
- Experience or Knowledge of Corporation Tax: Experience or knowledge of Corporation Tax is a key requirement for this role.
- Technological Change Experience: Experience of working with technological change is a key requirement for this role.
- Strategic Leadership: Proven ability to develop and implement long-term strategic plans and translate complex objectives into actionable strategies. Experience driving organisational change and policy development is desirable.
- People Leadership: Demonstrable people leadership skills with a proven ability to lead and develop teams of experts, particularly in ambiguous environments.
- Stakeholder Management & Communication: Strong senior stakeholder management skills, including experience at a ministerial level or equivalent. Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, are essential.
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £81,000, HM Revenue and Customs contributes £23,465 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Pension
Your Civil Service pension is a valuable part of your total reward and is one of your biggest benefits.
When you join the Civil Service, you get access to the alpha pension with a generous employer contribution of 28.97% and some of the lowest member contributions in the public sector.
Please visit Civil Service Pension Scheme for more information.
Annual Leave and Bank Holiday Allowance
25 days annual leave, increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service (allowance pro-rata for part-time colleagues).
This is complemented by one days paid privilege leave to mark the King’s Birthday and is in addition to your public holidays.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
The Civil Service values and supports all its employees.
At HMRC we want to create great places to work that are welcoming to all – where there is a strong sense of belonging and community.
Our HMRC equality objectives 2024-2028 describe how we are working to become a more inclusive and representative organisation reflective of our values.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
This campaign is being managed by HMRC’s Executive Resourcing team. All applications should be submitted via Civil Service Jobs no later than 23:55 on Monday 13th October 2025 and must include:
- A CV detailing your career history, key responsibilities and achievements accounting for any employment gaps within the last two years.
- A Statement of Suitability (no longer than 2 pages) demonstrating how your experience meets the essential criteria.
Your CV and suitability statement will be assessed against the criteria set out in the person specification. Please include your full name on both documents.
Assessment
If shortlisted, you will take part in the following assessment:
- Individual Leadership Assessment – a combination of psychometric assessments
Assessments are designed to support the panel’s decision making and highlight areas for further exploration at interview and do not result in a pass or fail decision.
Interview
You will attend a panel interview for a more in-depth discussion of your previous experience and professional competence. This will include a 5-minute verbal presentation (further information will be issued in advance).
Interviews are expected to take place in person virtually via Microsoft Teams.
All Criminal Record Checks applications are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.
As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
