Join to apply for theSenior Insolvency Consultantrole atHM Revenue & Customs 5 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants Join to apply for theSenior Insolvency Consultantrole atHM Revenue & Customs Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. This range is provided by HM Revenue & Customs. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more. Base pay rangeDirect message the job poster from HM Revenue & Customs Locations: Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Stratford Insolvency Governance and Professionalism (IGP): In this role, you'll be part of the IGP team who sit within the Reviews and Corporate Services directorate. IGP is a team of insolvency experts responsible for the insolvency profession in HMRC. The insolvency profession is a multi-disciplinary insolvency function of 650 staff with specialisms in counter-fraud, tax, civil recovery, customer service and debt management. It spans many different regions and parts of HMRC, providing high-quality insolvency support to internal customers, and working closely with insolvency practitioners to deliver the best insolvency outcomes. IGP’s key responsibility is to build insolvency capability across the profession, providing technical leadership, and ensuring risk is managed through governance procedures. Key roles include: • Developing the capability of HMRC insolvency professionals (e.g. via digital classrooms, self-serve learning and delivery of HMRC's bespoke in house examination programme). • Central internal communications point and provision of departmental technical insolvency guidance. Governance responsibility for certain decisions including: • an independent governance role in the process to appoint external insolvency practitioners • managing requests for legal advice or litigation • managing risk in robust insolvency procedures such as provisional liquidation • HMRC authority for reporting poor conduct by insolvency practitioners to their licensing bodies • maintaining relevant insolvency profession infrastructure such as insolvency job profiles and professional standards. You will join a team of 15 insolvency experts, based in one of our key regional centres. Possibly non-co-located with IGP colleagues or your manager, you will be part of a small team, working within a larger directorate, at the heart of a growing HMRC insolvency professional community. This is a functional leadership role, in a governance, policy & professionalism position. You will be one of three technical leads and play a substantial leadership role across HMRC’s insolvency profession. You will ensure the team delivers its ambitious objectives leading a culture of innovation, customer service and professionalism. Key Responsibilities • Provide support to the IGP team on technical advice and leading on the team’s most challenging technical issues. • Support operational teams on high profile insolvency work such as provisional liquidations and Part 26A restructuring plans. • Quality assure technical insolvency advice provided by junior team members. • Support the Head of Profession in cross-government engagement, particularly with Insolvency Service and Companies House, on joint initiatives to tackle contrived insolvency and abusive 'phoenixism' risks. • Manage relations and service provision with insolvency leads in specific HMRC directorates. • Work with specific HMRC directorates: - o to develop and maintain HMRC guidance for the external insolvency profession. o to ensure insolvency is considered in both developing new tax and insolvency policy areas. o to modernise and reform internal processes for both internal and external insolvency professionals. You'll also contribute to other areas of IGP’s work, building the team’s capability to enable them to deliver the teams commitments. • Developing, quality assuring and delivering internal learning, including the quality assuring of learning material of the Insolvency Profession Exam Programme (IPEP). • Drafting and quality assuring, guidance, and technical material for internal publication. • Supporting internal insolvency policy reviews. This post offers a unique opportunity to use your experience and skills to make your mark in a critically important function for HMRC, and the UK, working with a motivated team of insolvency experts. You will influence the direction and capability of the UK’s most significant creditor in insolvency proceedings, ranging widely across HMRC and other stakeholders to reduce billions of pounds in tax debt write offs, tackle those who misuse company structures to evade tax, and improve the customer journey for insolvency practitioners. Person specification Ideally, you will be resourceful and self-motivated, have good people skills, and be resilient and flexible. Developing others and supporting them to succeed will motivate you. You will thrive on supporting a small team in delivering its wide range of challenging objectives, driving up quality and ensuring that HMRC’s insolvency professionals have access to the best advice and support. Relevant insolvency professional training ismandatory- this means youmustalready hold one of the Qualifications below. - IPA Certificate of Proficiency in Insolvency, - IPA Certificate of Proficiency in Personal Insolvency and Certificate of Proficiency in Corporate Insolvency - ICAEW certificate in Insolvency - Joint Insolvency Exam - An Insolvency Service equivalent qualification or HMRC Insolvency Profession Exam Programme (IPEP) passes will be acceptable. 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Senior Insolvency Consultant