Job description
Role Purpose:
1. Leading the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) Strategic Prioritisation and Insight (SP&I) team, turning evidence and analysis into the insight needed to set strategic compliance priorities and ensuring that these drive decisions about what we do to tackle our most significant compliance risks and Close the Tax Gap.
2. This means understanding data, its strengths and weaknesses, and making judgements about what that means and how it can support decision making. It also means continuing to develop our tools and approach to asking the right questions, improving the evidence available, and refining how we present key choices.
Key Responsibilities:
3. Developing our approach to strategic prioritisation, setting out clear recommendations to support the Customer Compliance Group (CCG) Senior Leadership Team and HMRC Executive Committee to set our compliance priorities to Close the Tax Gap.
4. Working across HMRC to ensure those priorities are evidence based, building relationships with a wide range of analytical, operational and policy colleagues to understand the information available and synthesise that into actionable decisions.
5. Support to colleagues across HMRC, including Accountable Risk Owners and Regimes Owners, to understand the risks they are responsible for managing including understanding longer societal and economic trends, to help prioritise and assess the appropriate approaches to manage those risks.
6. Develop our tools to support decision making and insight, including the provision of strategic analysis, and build the evidence base through work with Knowledge, Analysis and Intelligence teams, to establish our key evidence priorities looking across compliance objectives and risks, considering the ease of gathering new data, and understanding how that could impact on CCG activities.
7. Lead a small and agile team including analytical and policy capability. Create an inclusive team environment, with a focus on delivering objectives, supporting change and continuous development, encouraging cross-boundary working both across the department and within the Directorate.
8. Play an active role in leading the directorate as part of the Compliance Strategy Delivery (CSD) Senior Leadership team, including taking responsibility for corporate leadership (potentially including things like people group, change lead, or business planning lead) for the Directorate, and providing cover and support to other teams in CSD.