Advisory Accountant

HM Revenue & Customs; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A governmental financial authority in the United Kingdom is seeking a qualified accountant for an exciting role providing complex financial accounting advice. You will engage with various stakeholders, support litigation, and develop training programs. The ideal candidate will have strong accounting experience and a full qualification from a recognized body. This role offers hybrid work arrangements, emphasizing work-life balance and professional growth opportunities.

Benefits

Hybrid working model

Flexible working hours

Inclusive workplace environment

Qualifications

• Qualified accountant with strong financial accounting experience from practice or industry.
• Experience dealing with complex technical financial matters.
• Clear understanding of accounting principles and application of GAAP in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Provide accounting advice for complex issues and challenge analyses.
• Engage with customers and assess accounting treatment for tax.
• Support litigation activity and provide expert reports.
• Develop and provide training to accountancy and tax professionals.
• Coach and mentor colleagues to foster growth.

Skills

Communication skills

Financial accounting knowledge

Analytical skills

Leadership

Expertise in GAAP

Education

Full qualification from recognized accounting body

Job description

Location

Belfast Regional Centre - Erskine House
Birmingham Regional Centre - Arena Central
Bristol Regional Centre - 3 Glass Wharf
Cardiff Regional Centre - Ty William Morgan
Croydon - Ruskin Square
Edinburgh Regional Centre - Queen Elizabeth House
Glasgow Regional Centre - Atlantic Square
Leeds Regional Centre - Wellington Place
Liverpool Regional Centre - Water Street
Manchester Regional Centre - Three New Bailey
Newcastle Upon Tyne - Benton Park View
Nottingham Regional Centre - Unity Square
Portsmouth - Lynx House
Stratford Regional Centre - Westfield Avenue

Job Summary

Are you a qualified accountant with strong financial accounting experience from working in practice or industry?

Will you bring commercial knowledge and an understanding of how businesses operate, and how accounting standards apply to sophisticated transactions?

Would the offer of hybrid work, actual flexitime and genuine work-life balance alongside captivating technical work interest you?

If so, we can offer you a role that offers exciting and ambitious work that has real impacts on Government tax policy decisions and makes a huge difference to the nation’s finances.

At HMRC we are committed to creating a great place to work for all our colleagues; an inclusive and respectful environment that reflects the diversity of the society we serve.

Our team of 150 accountants support HMRC’s teams and have previously worked in varied roles in practice or industry, including audit and financial accounting positions. Equivalent roles in the private sector will include managers in Big 4 Practice and financial accountants in industry.

Job description

Responsibilities

• Provide accounting advice for complex accountancy issues: analysing relevant customer facts, accounting frameworks and where appropriate, challenge customers’ accounting analyses.
• Engage with customers and work with other specialists to form a view and assess the impact of the accounting treatment for tax.
• Support litigation activity, acting as an expert accounting witness, case accountant, or witness of fact and be proactive in assisting others involved in litigation.
• You will prepare and review professional reports containing factual and opinion evidence, attend case conferences, meetings and court, acting with professionalism, integrity and independence.
• Develop and provide high‑quality training to accountancy and tax professionals, ensuring knowledge transfer and providing follow‑up support to delegates.
• Coach and mentor colleagues, fostering capability development and professional growth.
• Share knowledge and best practice, leveraging innovative methods and digital tools to enhance efficiency and consistency.
• Demonstrate leadership, expertise, and authority to credibly engage with key collaborators including agents, tribunals, colleagues, customers, and senior HMRC officers.

Person specification

This role requires strong financial accounting post‑qualification experience, gained and consolidated in either practice, industry, public sector or private sector, dealing with a range of stakeholders.

• Experience of working on complex technical financial accounting matters, including:
  • Analysing and interpreting financial records;
  • Preparing or reviewing financial statements;
  • Considering the appropriate accounting treatment of a variety of specific transactions.
• A clear understanding of accounting principles and the application of GAAP in the UK;
• Strong communication skills, including delivery of reports or briefings to senior stakeholders;
• Commercial knowledge and an understanding of how businesses operate including accounting systems.

Essential Criteria

Full and complete qualification from, and continuing membership of, at least one of the following professional accounting bodies:

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)
• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS)
• Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI)
• The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
• The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
• The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA)

Please Note: Part qualified accountants are not eligible for these posts.

You will be required to show evidence of your qualification and membership at interview.

Further Information

There may be a need to travel across the UK with occasional overnight stays being required and there may be a need for occasional travel for business purposes.

Transitional Sites

For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations.

If your location preference is for one of the following sites, it’s important to note that these are not long‑term sites for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.

These sites are:

• Benton Park View, Newcastle - moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle

You will be given more information about what this means at the job offer stage.

Leeds Locations

Moves Adjustment Payment will be available for this role, provided the successful applicant is a current HMRC colleague in Bradford and meets the eligibility requirements outlined in the HMRC’s Moves Adjustment Payment guidance.

Qualifications

Full and complete qualification from, and continuing membership of, at least one of the following professional accounting bodies:

• The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)
• The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS)
• Chartered Accountants Ireland (CAI)
• The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
• The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
• The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA)

Technical skills

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

• Please give an example (250 words) of when you considered complex accounting treatments in practice – include type of industry, your role, the standards applied, and alternatives/options considered. Include which role this relates to from your CV.

We only ask for evidence of these technical skills on your application form.

Application

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