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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Finance and Systems Senior Assurance Officer - **Company:** HM Revenue & Customs - **Location:** Leeds, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** £45,544.0 - £55,157.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Accounting Systems, Databases, Online Service Provider - **Published:** June 18, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9a45e110c5cacc65 ## About the Role * Good understanding of accounting principles and standards. * Experience of working in a finance, project, audit or assurance role. * A strong team player and independent analytical problem solver who builds effective working relationships, identifies solutions, and takes ownership to see tasks through to completion. * Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all levels and explain technical concepts clearly and concisely. * Experience of managing multiple deadlines and competing priorities from multiple sources. * Experience of analysing information, summarising and using judgement to make recommendations. * Ability to line manage and supervise the work of another member of the team. Desirable Criteria * Ability to demonstrate either project management, audit or assurance skills. * Experience of working on transformation programmes, in a project change environment or working knowledge of one or more areas of taxation., To be eligible for this role, you must be actively working towards a Level 4 qualification with AAT, CCAB, CIMA or equivalent., * Making Effective Decisions * Communicating and Influencing * Managing a Quality Service, 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., Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks. ## Description Discover a career in your hands at HMRC. Whether you're seeking purpose, growth, or a workplace that gives you a true sense of belonging, hear from some of our employees as they share their story about what it’s really like to work at HMRC. Visit our YouTube channel to watch the full series and come and discover your potential. Our Finance Analyst (FA) teams have three strategic objectives: to act as the finance keyholders for HMRC change programmes; to provide assurance to the CFO that changes to systems and processes meet finance requirements; and to build and sustain a high-performing team that supports wider government economic aims through HMRC’s work. As a principal keyholder of HMRC’s finance systems, we ensure that all changes meet our standards, summarised in five key guardrails, and provide assurance to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) that these standards are upheld. We provide expert advice and support on accounting treatments, financial controls, and risk management to programmes throughout the end-to-end (E2E) change lifecycle, ensuring that all financial aspects of change are robust, compliant, and well-governed. You will work in a fast-paced environment, building relationships, and providing specialist financial advice and support to assist in driving forward effective transformation of HMRC’s finance systems and processes. You will specify finance requirements for change initiatives and ensure they are delivered. This will allow HMRC to account for, receive and pay out money in accordance with strategy and Accounting Standards. This role gives an outstanding opportunity to develop key leadership, assurance and collaboration skills. Our vacancy sits in one of the FA Teams, which forms part of Finance Systems Strategy and Change in Risk, Control & Financial Accountant (RCFA). Our team plays a key role in HMRC Transformation by ensuring excellent financial management and control throughout the HMRC Change process by accrediting changes to financial systems and processes. You will work closely with colleagues and stakeholders to ensure that we design the systems and processes to support the delivery of change through key milestones by effectively managing risks, caveats, High Level requirements and produce monthly progress reports through development and production of KPI’s along with looking at ways of innovating our process., * Lead all aspects of financial accreditation of the portfolio of projects/programmes assigned to you, ensuring high level requirements are met by the Change programme. * Engage with SMEs, across several finance and specialist areas to ensure change requirements are delivered and tested to our standards. * Provide expert advice and become a 'critical friend' with key HMRC Change Delivery programmes, whilst acting in a sensitive and diplomatic manner. * Ensuring that the financial journey delivered by the project is safe, secure, auditable and allows HMRC accounts to be produced accurately. * Communicate with senior management using appropriate styles, methods and timing, to maximise understanding and impact. * Acting as a mentor or line manager to more junior financial accreditation team members as the need arises. You will join a welcoming and accomplished team of accreditors, who have a wide knowledge of tax and finance accounting systems and processes. Successful candidates will undertake a bespoke training programme enabling you to: * Represent Finance in a project change environment, introducing and driving forward our requirements. * Influence the financial accreditation process as the team adapts to the pace of HMRC Change and the way we deliver Financial Accreditation. * Develop the skills needed to build co-operative partnerships with project and programme teams to ensure finance requirements are understood and developed. Critically you'll then be assuring the subsequent changes made to ensure that they align with internal and external standards. We do this throughout the project lifecycle process, providing accreditation and assurance for changes to HMRCs financial systems and processes., * Being a finance project stakeholder ensuring finance requirements are delivered by the project team to attain a safe, secure and auditable financial journey. * Experienced in managing risks, issues and prioritising your own work so that you manage multiple deadlines. * Experienced in analysing information, summarising and using judgement on recommendations. * Ensuring that changes made to Finance systems and processes meet Finance strategy. * Working with an expert team of accreditors, to continually build capability that will ensure efficient delivery that meets the future demands of HMRC. Important: The role can require frequent travel including overnight stays, sometimes at short notice., During the panel interview, you will be asked to prepare and deliver a 5-minute Presentation to assess your Skills and Experience, and how you will add value to this position. You will also be asked questions in order to assess your Experience. You will be asked behaviour-based questions on Making Effective Decisions, Communicating and Influencing and Managing a Quality Service to explore in detail what you are capable of and strength-based questions to explore what you enjoy and your motivations relevant to the job role. This is an example of a strengths-based question: “It is often said that the customer's needs should come first. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?” There is no expectation or requirement for you to prepare for the strengths-based questions in advance of the interview, though you may find it helpful to spend some time reflecting on what you enjoy doing and what you do well. Interviews will take place virtually video link. Sift and interview dates to be confirmed. Online Tests – Banked Scores When an applicant has a banked score they are not asked to retake the same test, providing it is: * set at the same job level, and * within the same system. Scores will be banked for six months, or until a new score benchmark is applied, whichever is sooner. This means that if a candidate applies for another vacancy at this grade they may not have to retake the test within that time, and their previous score will be used for the new vacancy. Eligibility Please take extra care to tick the correct boxes in the eligibility sections of your application form. Mistakes sometimes happen but if you contact us later than two working days (Monday-Friday) before the vacancy closes, we may 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. Exceptionally, candidates who are not successful at this grade may be considered for appointment to similar roles at a lower grade where the eligibility criteria are met. If this applies, we will contact you directly. Sponsorship We have assessed this role against both Home Office and HMRC criteria and we are unable to offer sponsorship for a Skilled Worker Visa. This means the vacancy is not open to applicants who require visa sponsorship., If you have an HMRC online account already, sign straight in using your ID and password. If not, you can prove your identity by answering some questions or providing your photo ID. You’ll then be able to access the app quickly and easily by signing in using a 6-digit PIN, your fingerprint, or facial recognition. You can find guidance for technical issues on GOV.UK: Technical support with HMRC online services. 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, merit lists will be created for each location advertised within the vacancy. If you are successful at interview, you will be placed on the merit list for any locations you have expressed an interest for. Appointments from each merit list will be made in strict merit order. 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., 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 . The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences. Any instances of plagiarism or other forms of cheating will be investigated and, if proven, the relevant application(s) will be withdrawn from the process. Recording of interviews is prohibited unless explicit agreement is sought in line with the UK General Data Protection Regulations. Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert. Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment. A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government. New entrants will join on the minimum of the pay band. Please note that, if you are applying for roles on a part-time basis, the salary agreed will be pro-rata, reflective of the working hours agreed within your contract. If you experience accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section. For more Information for people applying for, or thinking of applying for, roles at HM Revenue and Customs, please see link: Working for HMRC: information for applicants - GOV.UK. 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