Policy Adviser – HMRC Strategic Spending

About the Team

The Tax Administration, Spending and Reform (TASR) team is an outstanding, friendly, and diverse team responsible for HMRC spending and for tax policy on compliance, wider reform of the tax system, and tax administration.

HMRC plays a critical role in delivering Government priorities – including raising tax revenue to fund public services, tackling tax avoidance and evasion, and supporting the continued reform of the UK customs system. TASR’s work is of fundamental importance to the Treasury, the Chancellor, and wider government.

About the Job

This is a stretching and exciting role within the Strategic Spending Branch of the HMRC Spending Team, TASR. The postholder will have the opportunity to play a critical part in delivering the funding settlement for HMRC at the next Spending Review, building positive relationships and collaborating with a range of finance, spending and policy teams across HMRC and HM Treasury. They will also lead HM Treasury’s oversight and scrutiny across significant aspects of HMRC’s ambitious transformation and modernisation agenda, as well as ensuring HMRC deliver the outcomes of the Chief Secretary’s Productivity Review.

The key responsibilities are as follows, with scope to adapt these to reflect particular experience or interests:

1. Support the team’s scrutiny of HMRC’s Spending Review bids and help negotiate with HMRC to secure an appropriate funding settlement for the department.
2. Lead work to determine HMRC's funding baseline for the next Spending Review period.
3. Lead the development and response to various HMRC workforce and savings exercises for the team.
4. Lead the assurance of major HMRC digital and technology programmes and business cases.
5. Coordinate the teams work on HMRC spending at fiscal events.
6. Lead HM Treasury’s oversight of HMRC’s estates strategy.  

About You

Our successful candidate will be a confident decision maker, with the ability to gather and analyse complex information and evaluate evidence to produce recommendations. In this fast-paced environment, you’ll need exceptional organisational skills, with the ability to manage a busy workload, prioritise effectively and deliver under pressure. At the same time, you’ll need to remain alert to the main factors and pressures driving work and to the strategic objectives; ensuring that these factors are captured when planning and executing work.

About Us

HM Treasury is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We know that having a range of experiences, ways of working and thinking makes us a stronger organisation, better at developing policy that is reflective of the communities we serve. We embrace different views and experiences and value the fresh perspective that people from a variety of circumstances bring to the work we do. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

• 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• Generous parental and adoption leave packages
• Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 27%
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity (e.g. women in the Treasury, ethnic minority network, LGBT* network, faith and belief network)

For more information about the Treasury, role, salary, benefits, who to contact and how to apply please follow the Apply link.    

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team at hrrecruitment@hmtreasury.gov.uk