Are you a qualified accountant with strong financial accounting experience gained and consolidated in either practice or industry? Will you bring commercial knowledge and an understanding of how businesses operate and how accounting standards apply to complex transactions? Do you want to be part of a team where flexible working is the norm? We are currently looking for advisory accountants to join our growing team, supporting HMRC’s Customer Compliance group. We can offer you a range of work that will allow you to utilise your commercial and technical knowledge and breadth of experience to understand and explain a wide range of transactions and issues. Our team of 150 accountants have previously worked in varied roles in practice or industry, including audit and financial accounting positions. We use our technical and commercial knowledge in a range of interesting and exciting work - work that has real impacts on Government tax policy decisions, makes a difference to the nation’s finances and touches the lives of many in the UK. We pride ourselves on undertaking CPD and share best practice both within the team and with customers. We are running an additional campaign for Forensic Accountants. If you wish to apply for both, you will need to submit applications for each campaign. However, if you are successful at sift then you will need to sit one technical assessment and interview. We will use your outcomes from this for both campaigns. See what it’s like to work at HMRC: find out more about us or ask our colleagues a question. Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert. As an Advisory Accountant you will act as a visible leader within and outside HMRC, promoting the work of HMRC's Customer Compliance Group. You will provide accounting advice for complex accountancy issues - analysing relevant customer facts, accounting frameworks and, where appropriate, challenge customers’ accounting analyses. You will support litigation, acting as an expert witness, case accountant or witness of fact and be proactive in assisting others involved in litigation. You will prepare and review professional reports with both factual and opinion evidence, attend case conferences, meetings and court acting with professionalism, integrity and independence. You will develop and provide quality accountancy training to accountancy and tax professionals, offering follow-up support to delegates. Responsibilities: Use your commercial acumen to support risk activities, including reviewing financial statements and commercial and accounting information. Work with Customer Compliance tax specialists to understand the impact for tax and forming your own independent view on accountancy matters. Play a key role in litigation where accountancy is relevant to cases. This could include acting as an independent accountancy expert witness. Collaborate closely on accountancy issues with internal and external stakeholders. Coach and mentor colleagues Share knowledge and best practice, using innovative methods and digital tools. Demonstrate expertise, experience, and authority to credibly engage with courts, tribunals, accountants, colleagues, customers, and senior HMRC officers.