Insolvency Practitioner

JR United Kingdom; Bristol; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A key government agency is seeking a Senior Insolvency Consultant to join their team in Bristol. This role involves providing technical leadership and ensuring high-quality insolvency advice within a motivated team. Candidates must possess relevant insolvency qualifications and have strong people skills. The position offers a unique opportunity to influence significant creditor functions, managing technical insolvency issues affecting the UK tax landscape.

Qualifications

• Must hold a relevant insolvency professional qualification.
• Experience in technical insolvency issues required.
• Excellent people skills needed.

Responsibilities

• Support IGP team with technical advice.
• Quality assure technical advice from junior members.
• Engage with cross-government initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Technical advisory

Customer service

Quality assurance

Flexibility

Education

IPA Certificate of Proficiency in Insolvency

ICAEW certificate in Insolvency

Joint Insolvency Exam

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Senior Insolvency ConsultantHMRCLocations:Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Stratford
Job description

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 HMRCs 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 teams 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 will also contribute to other areas of IGPs work, building the teams 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 UKs 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 HMRCs insolvency professionals have access to the best advice and support.

Essential Criteria:

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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