Senior Asset Management Tax Specialist

Job summary

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Do you have expertise in UK asset management taxation, including the taxation of private capital managers or other alternative asset managers?

Are you ready to apply your industry or advisory experience to some of the UK’s most complex and high-profile tax challenges?

If so, HMRC’s Large Business directorate has an opportunity for you.

We are seeking a senior tax specialist to lead on tax risk assessment and enquiries for major UK and global asset management groups including private equity and hedge funds. You will work at the forefront of HMRC’s engagement with the asset management sector, influencing compliance strategies and shaping outcomes that protect the UK tax base. While the internal title is Senior Tax Specialist, this role is a Senior Asset Management Tax position.

Job description

The Senior Asset Management Tax Specialist involves working on the most complex customers and you'll be leading on risk assessment and enquiry work end-to-end for some of the UK’s largest and most sophisticated asset management businesses.

You will use technical and sector expertise to influence tax compliance approaches within the alternative asset management sector, particularly in identifying emerging and novel tax risks, and steering the resolution of complex, high-value tax disputes.

Your workload will be varied, consisting of leading customer case teams to set risk assessment priorities, enquiry work, real-time working and interacting with customers and their representatives. You will provide authoritative insights into sector-specific risks, commercial trends, and opportunities for HMRC to close the tax gap.

You will work with a team of key colleagues across the organisation including Customer Compliance Managers, cross-tax regime specialists, accountants, and policy teams to deliver joined-up solutions. You will provide tax leadership and mentoring to colleagues, building capability in asset management tax issues across HMRC.

In this role there will be opportunities to influence tax policy development, contribute to asset management tax compliance strategy and build the Asset Management tax community.

Person specification

This is a technical leadership role without line management responsibilities, but with significant influence and visibility across HMRC and the sector.

• Lead on the most complex and high-profile taxation issues for private capital asset managers, or other alternative asset managers
• Manage end-to-end risk assessment and enquiry activity for some of the UK’s largest and most sophisticated asset management businesses.
• Identify and assess emerging tax risks, novel structures, and sector-specific challenges.
• Drive resolution strategies for high-value tax disputes, ensuring robust technical and commercial analysis.
• Collaborate across case teams to set priorities and influence risk assessment approaches.
• Provide authoritative sector insights to senior leadership and external stakeholders.
• Mentor and develop team members, building technical capability and sector knowledge across the group.
• Contribute to shaping policy and strategic initiatives within the sector.

Essential Criteria

• Significant recent experience leading taxation issues relating to private capital asset managers or other alternative asset managers.
• Proven ability to successfully manage and lead complex tax issues or projects end-to-end.
• Strong commercial understanding of the asset management sector.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills – ability to work across a range of stakeholders both internally and externally.
• Ability to mentor and develop others, fostering a culture of technical excellence.

Qualifications

You must hold one of the following qualifications:

• Chartered Tax Adviser (CIOT)
• Advanced Diploma in International Taxation (CIOT)
• AIIT (including Paper 4*)
• A Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies (CCAB) membership qualification including:
• Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales (ICAEW),
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland (ICAS) 
• Institute of Chartered Accountants Ireland (ICAI) 
• Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) 
• Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
• Post Graduate full legal qualification - in taxation matters.
• Qualified Solicitor, Barrister or CILEX Lawyer (including the Professional stage Business and Commercial Law module) in England and Wales (or equivalents in Scotland and Northern Ireland) with direct tax professional experience.
• For previous or existing HMRC employees TSP or predecessor qualification (TPDP, IDP, ITS2, CPT FT2) - (note - existing HMRC employees would only be eligible if they have completed the appropriate course to get them to G7 level (or above) as a tax professional).

Technical skills

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

• You’ll be given a technical question at the start of the interview and will have 10 minutes to consider your response before presenting your answer to the panel.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £78,988, HM Revenue and Customs contributes

£22,882 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

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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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Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.

How to Apply

As part of the application process, you will be asked to provide the following:

• A name-blind CV including your job history (Last 5 roles). For each job role included, please provide a brief description of the role, key responsibilities and key achievements (max 300 words per role).

Please reference how you meet the essential criteria and display your qualifications.

Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Sift

At sift your CV will be assessed against the essential criteria, 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 against the person specification and essential criteria.

The interview will begin with a technical question. You’ll be given the question at the start and will have 10 minutes to consider your response before presenting your answer to the panel.

Interviews will take place via video link. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed.

Eligibility

Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. We understand mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we will not be able to reopen your application for you. If you do make a mistake with your eligibility form, or have withdrawn yourself in error and need your application reinstated whilst the campaign is still live, please contact us via: unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk – Use the subject line to insert appropriate wording for example – ‘Please re-open my application – [insert vacancy ref] & vacancy closing date [insert date]’.

To check that you are eligible to apply for this role, please review the eligibility information before submitting your application .

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 you will only be considered for posts in locations you have expressed a preference for. Appointments will be made in strict merit order in line with the set number of roles in each location.

Criminal Record Check

Applications received from candidates with a criminal record are considered fairly in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice and the Recruitment of ex-offenders Policy.

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).

Reasonable Adjustments

We want to make sure no one is put at a disadvantage during our recruitment process. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

Contact the UBS Recruitment team via unitybusinessservicesrecruitmentresults@hmrc.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.

Complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.

Important information for existing HMRC contractual homeworkers

This role may be suitable for existing HMRC employees who are contractual homeworkers. Occasional attendance to the office will be required where there is a business need. Please consider the advertised office locations for this role when applying and only select locations from the ‘location preferences’ section that you can travel to.

Terms and Conditions

Customer facing roles in HMRC require the ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English and/or Welsh where required. Where this is an essential requirement, this will be tested as part of the selection process.

HMRC has a presence in every region of the UK. For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations (opens in a new window) .

The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these princ