Airport Opportunity: Customs and Excise Officer

Customs and Excise officer Current Vacancies

2006-11-23:

Customs officers work in sea, air, and postal customs locations examining and clearing passengers, baggage, freight or mail to ensure that there are no smuggled or excess goods.
They process customs documentation and when necessary attend court as official witnesses.
VAT assurance officers visit local businesses to provide technical advice and to check they are accounting for VAT correctly, and understand the relevant laws.
Customs, excise, and VAT assurance officers are classed as junior managers and may work independently or as a member of a team.
New areas of work in customs and excise develop with changes in business and trade.
Uniformed customs officers work shifts including evenings, nights and weekends.
Flexitime, job sharing or part-time work may be available.
In addition to working in offices, VAT and excise officers will travel to customers premises, and uniformed customs officers will sometimes work from customs halls and interview rooms.
The Customs and Excise department has around 23,000 staff based all over the country, working in tax, customs and excise. Officer. Higher Officer. Senior Officer.
Officers work right across our business, so there are countless areas and opportunities to specialise.
Wherever you're based, you can expect challenging work and every chance to develop your career.
View our current vacancies to see if we have any vacancies where you want to work.
If you have these qualifications, after an application sift and a work test, you?ll be offered an interview.
When filling these posts, we look for people who can demonstrate leadership potential and work well with others.
Border protection
Millions of people travel through Britain's ports and airports every year.
It is Detection's job, working with colleagues across HMRC, to stop them. Customs Officers.
Working at ports and airports, they act on intelligence to search vehicles and people's belongings, looking for illegal drugs and other prohibited items.
Dog-handling teams.
As well as drugs, our dogs are trained to detect money, tobacco and meat. Border patrol.
Policy.
We usually fill these posts from existing staff, but if we do recruit externally, the jobs will be advertised on our current vacancies page.
Where are the jobs?
It depends on the role you?re applying for.
The qualifications needed will be stated in the job advertisement.
When filling these posts, we look for professional and helpful people who enjoy team working. Graduate Opportunities
Starting salary ?23,929 (national), ?26,010 (London) rising after completion of the Programme to a salary band starting at ?42,586 (national), ?47,735 (London).
Graduate Opportunities
Starting salary ?23,929 (national), ?26,010 (London) rising after completion of the Programme to a salary band starting at ?42,586 (national), ?47,735 (London).
The complete works
Our Talent Recruitment Programme offers the complete package: Structured training.
Study for professional qualifications.
Rewards of being part of a business that helps keep the UK working. collecting Income, Corporation and Environmental Tax
distributing Tax Credits administering National Insurance and Student Loans Our work impacts on nearly everyone in the UK, and no other development programme offers you access to so many different organisations or customers.
As well as joining us through our Talent Recruitment Programme we also offer paid summer placements for undergraduates, including our award-winning Internship scheme.
Talent Recruitment Programme
A structured Programme (usually lasting four years).
Intellectually stimulating work, with early responsibility.
Contributing to a business which contributes to the UK's financial well-being.
An enlightened approach to balancing work and your personal life.
Inspector Development Programme. Locations
The Talent Recruitment Programme for 2006/07 closed on 4th December 2006. Next year's programme will open in early October 2007.
Internship Scheme
It?s an eight-week summer scheme offering a graduate-level work placement complete with structured training, mentoring, supervision - and pay.
Summer Training Experience for first year undergraduates from an ethnic minority background Ethnic minority people are under-represented at senior levels in HMRC.
It normally takes place in July and August and is a training and development programme which offers an opportunity to experience our business diversity. Hopefully, taking part in the Summer Training Experience will make you want to apply for the full Talent Programme. Administrative roles
Accountants
these specialists deliver expertise in two key areas:
Compliance - technical accounting issues, potential fraud and commercial accountancy including accounts preparation, record keeping and audit investigation Financial Management (FM) - helping the business best manage its resources.
All accountants are CCAB qualified, and vacancies are advertised within the Accountants page, in local and national press plus various accountancy publications.
Economists
provide advice on tax change proposals to Ministers and Senior Administrators, and help us with policy evaluation and research. Lawyers
Service. Researchers
We recruit many researchers through the Government Operational Research Service.
Statisticians
We recruit statisticians through the Government Statistical Services (GSS).
Communications and marketing specialists in communications, marketing and design work to enhance and protect the HMRC reputation.
We advertise these posts directly and through the Government Communications Network.
Information technology
We occasionally recruit senior level IT specialists and when we do, these vacancies are advertised on the current vacancies page, in the National press and in various computing publications.
Administration jobs
Administration staff are the backbone of our organisation and many people working here joined at our administration level, even some of our most senior colleagues.
basic accounts work such as creating invoices and matching payments keying in data and customer information
The work is varied and interesting and you?re providing a vital public service.
Administrative Assistant. Assistant Officer.
We are also able to offer part-time and term-time working, depending on the needs of the office.
Administrative Assistants: You need two GCSE passes (or equivalent) at A-C in Mathematics and English Language.
If you have these qualifications, and pass an initial sift, you?ll be offered an interview.
When filling these posts, we look for friendly and helpful people who work well with others.
Tax
Our administration teams oversee much of the calculation leaving our tax inspectors free to interpret the figures. Most trainee tax inspectors join us through our graduate level Talent Recruitment Programme.
Practical work experience in teams, on live assignments.
Tutor-led sessions, self-study and office work, as well as exams and practical work assessments designed to build up your knowledge of tax law and practice.
Tax inspectors work in most of our offices which are located in major towns and cities in the UK.
If you join the Talent Recruitment Programme, the starting salary is ?23,929 (national), ?26,010 (London) rising after completion of the Programme to a salary band starting at ?42,586 (national), ?47,735 (London).
When filling tax inspector posts, we look for people who enjoy tackling complex issues, using their intellect and solving problems.
Customer service
We have around 20 Contact Centres around the country offering advice and help to around 50 million callers a year. Our Contact Centre Advisers are usually the first ? and often, the only ? person here our customers speak to. You are helping customers with queries and giving them advice. We do not sell anything, so unlike most other call centres, there are no sales targets and no selling.
Our Contact Centres are at the following locations:
Bathgate (Edinburgh). Belfast. Blackpool. Bootle. Bournemouth. Bradford. Cardiff. Dundee. East Kilbride. Glasgow. Liverpool.
Livingston (Edinburgh). Longbenton (Newcastle-upon-Tyne). Manchester. Merry Hill (Dudley). Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Peterlee.
Portsmouth. St Austell. St Helens. Sunderland. Washington.
If you have these qualifications, and pass an initial sift, you?ll be offered an interview.
When filling these posts, we look for friendly and helpful people who have a genuine interest in offering good customer service.
Do you have an age limit for applications? Can I work part-time?
We are keen to make our posts accessible to people who wish to work part-time and have a number of options to suit individual needs.
Is relevant work experience needed before I apply to join HMRC?
The normal working week is 37 hours excluding meal breaks (36 in London).
Flexible working arrangements are available for most jobs but there are certain jobs which have specific attendance times.
Each job advertisement will outline the qualifications needed for that particular job.
Assistant Officers: You need five GCSE passes (or equivalent) at A-C. Officer: You need two A level passes at A-E and three GCSE passes (or equivalent) at A-C and you will also have to pass an Officer work sample test.
If you have these qualifications and, in the case of applying for an Officer post, pass the work sample test, you will be offered an interview. Are there any graduate programmes?
Management Fast Track, which develops and strengthens your management skills.
We also run an eight week paid Summer Training Programme for first year ethnic minority students and a Summer Internship Programme for penultimate year students.
Talent Recruitment Programme and Internship ? our website opens for applications on 3 October and closes at noon on 4 December Summer Training Programme - Feb/March
Can I transfer my existing pension?
The transfer value will buy a credit of reckonable service in the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
The scheme has discretion to refuse a transfer if it is deemed to be insufficient to cover the cost of your guaranteed minimum pension, if the transferring scheme is unable to comply with CSPS requirements or if you do not make your application within the relevant time limit.
You can get further information from the Civil Service Pensions website. Pay and benefits
How to apply
All our job advertisements tell you how to apply.
We advertise our job vacancies: within the current vacancies page - in national and local press - in specialist publications. Educational qualifications - If successful in the tests you will be invited to an interview.
People who do have the required qualifications go straight to interview if they pass the initial sift. Officers at junior management level earn 18,500 to 22,000 a year.
Those in more senior jobs can earn from 20,000 to more than 40,000 a year.
Additional allowances are paid for working unsocial hours. (Permalink)

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2007-04-29: Higher Officer. Senior Officer. Job details - Border protection. Graduate Opportunities. The complete works. Our Talent Recruitment Programme offers the complete package: Structured training. distributing Tax Credits - Talent Recruitment Programme. Intellectually stimulating work, with early responsibility. Inspector Development Programme. Job details - Administration jobs. Assistant Officer. Job details - Tax. Practical work experience in teams, on live assignments. If you join the Talent Recruitment Programme, the starting salary is ?23,929 (national), ?26,010 (London) rising after completion of the Programme to a salary band starting at ?42,586 (national), ?47,735 (London). Job details - Customer service - Can I work part-time?. Interested persons should apply to HM Revenue & Customs at http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/jobs/current-vacancies.htm (Permalink)