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About HM Treasury

If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives across the country, the Treasury is the department for you! We sit at the centre of everything that the Government does and have provided advice on economic policy and decisions that affect the public finances throughout the country’s history. A Treasury career continues to offer an exciting opportunity to be part of the decision making that affects the whole of the UK.

Working at the heart of government, we collaborate with other departments to ensure public money is spent well and to drive strong and sustainable economic growth. Our work ranges from protecting customers through to the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, supporting people across the country through the COVID 19 furlough scheme and Plan for Jobs as well as helping first time buyers buy their first home.

HM Treasury is proud of a diverse and inclusive work environment, committed to fairness and the promotion of equality of opportunity for all. We know that having a range of experiences, ways of working and thinking makes us a stronger organisation, better at developing policy that is reflective of the communities we serve. We embrace different views and experiences and value the fresh perspective that people from a variety of circumstances bring to the work we do. We welcome applications from candidates who have not previously worked for the Civil Service, mid- and late-career changers with transferrable skills, people from all backgrounds and circumstances regardless of disability, gender, age ethnicity, LGBT+ identity and socio-economic status.

About the Group - Personal Tax, Welfare and Pensions

We work to create a tax and welfare system which supports the government’s goals of deficit reduction, economic growth and fairness. In doing so, we look after high profile areas including personal taxes, labour markets, welfare, tax administration, pensions, and savings. We also coordinate spending controls for both HM Revenue & Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions. The Group also has a wider role to assess the overall impact of changes made to taxes and benefit on households across the UK.

Our work means that we are often at the centre of ministers’ decision making, and we play an important part in the Budget and the Spending Review. Our group works closely with colleagues at HMRC, DWP and the Prime Minister’s office, and with a wide variety of external stakeholders.

About the Team

The Labour Markets and Distributional Analysis team is a friendly and diverse team of outstanding analysts and policy makers. We seek to bring together an understanding of households’ living standards and position in the labour market, with key labour market policies, such as the Plan for Jobs, DWP’s unemployment regime and tax-free childcare.

The advertised roles sit within the Distributional Analysis branch of the team. We analyse how tax, welfare and public service spending decisions will affect households’ living standards and advise Ministers accordingly. Whilst our approach on tax and welfare closely mirrors respected think tanks such as the Institute of Fiscal Studies, we also model the impacts of public services, such as NHS, schools and social care spending. This broader approach means we can consider a much wider range of ways to provide support to the poorest and most vulnerable households. This means we are involved in policy discussions in areas including social care, childcare, Universal Credit, personal tax, pensions, green taxes, and many more!

We play a key role in fiscal events (such as Budgets and Spending Reviews) where we inform Ministers on the overall impacts of a suite of policy decisions, and our analysis is published in Treasury’s high-profile distributional analysis reports, which regularly features in political exchanges and media reports. The rest of the year we concentrate on producing analysis for ongoing policy development, as well as building our modelling capability to ensure we stay at the cutting edge of what we do. As such, our work provides an attractive blend of high-profile cross-cutting policy thinking and detailed analytical challenge and would perfectly suit an analyst looking to stretch their analytical capability whilst working close to the centre of government.

Key Accountabilities

We are recruiting for 1 analyst position in the Distributional Analysis team (other similar roles may become available soon). This is a high profile team, and you will have the opportunity to work on a range of interesting, influential and challenging analytical projects.

The responsibilities of the role will be varied, and can be shaped to reflect the applicant’s experience, preferences, and the wider needs across the team. There is scope for this role to involve significant technical content, for example, including development and maintenance of the team’s microsimulation models. Equally, post-holders could focus primarily on deploying analysis for policy development. Overall, responsibilities are likely to involve one or more of:

• Building expertise in running the team’s microsimulation models, including our tax and welfare model (IGOTM) and public service spending (RDEL) model. This will also involve contributing to the continuous development of these models, ensuring the team’s continued capability to answer critical questions for policy making.
• Providing distributional analysis at fiscal events (Budgets and Autumn Statements), feeding into ministerial advice on the distributional impact of policies under consideration and producing analysis for the “Impact on Households” document published alongside each fiscal event (the most recent publication can be found here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1142917/FINAL_Impact_on_households_-_SB23.pdf)
• Producing high quality and accurate modelling of the impact of tax, welfare and public spending policy on households throughout the year, developing strong working relationships with policy leads, analysts, and subject experts both within and outside HM Treasury, ensuring that our analysis continues to inform and influence policy development at an early stage. Recent work has included analysis looking at the impact of the cost of living crisis on household incomes, and evaluating the distributional impact of Covid-19 support schemes.

Required Skills, Experience and Behaviours

The below criteria will be assessed in your application form:

The lead criterion is:

• Technical Skill: Experience in delivering robust quantitative analysis that influences decision making. Please provide evidence of your ability to produce quantitative analysis, including action you took to ensure it was relevant, and steps taken to ensure it was robust.

If we receive large volumes of applications, we will conduct an initial sift on the lead criterion only.

We will assess the below further criteria in your application form;

• Making Effective Decisions: evidence of using a range of relevant, credible information from internal and external sources to support decisions, inviting challenge and where appropriate involve others in decision making.
• Delivering at Pace: evidence of the ability to prioritise and adapt in order to deliver and support the team, often under short deadlines, while maintaining progress against longer term aims
• Communicating and Influencing: evidence of the ability to explain complex ideas to others, and particularly senior colleagues, in a way that is easy to understand and persuasively impact policy decisions

Candidate Guidance on Completing your Application Form

Where will we assess success profiles across your application form:

• Behaviours – these will be assessed individually with a 250-word statement per behaviour. The application form will indicate which behaviour is being assessed each time you provide a statement, and we are ideally looking for an example using the below STAR method to demonstrate this behaviour in line with the full criteria stated
• Technical Skills - this will be assessed individually with a 250-word statement per technical skill. You will give the answer in a separate technical skills section, and be given direct guidance on the technical skill we are looking for you to demonstrate

All elements of the success profiles will be linked to a defined criterion that demonstrates the behaviour, experience or technical skills. It is beneficial to ensure your answer focuses on the full criteria, and not just the related success profile, to give you the best chance or providing the evidence the panel wants to assess.

In your statements, it is best to focus on one example in each section to allow you to provide enough detail in your answer and use all the words you have been allocated. Examples from a range of roles across your application will demonstrate that you have the skills, experience and behaviours we are looking for. We would also advise you to use examples that best meet the criteria, even if it is a few years old.

How to Structure your Answer

Please use the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) approach when writing your application answers.

• Situation – Describe the situation you found yourself in and what happened.
• Task – The Hiring Manager will want to understand what you tried to achieve from the situation that you found yourself in.
• Action – What actions did you take and how did you do it. Make sure to use “I”, not “we” to explain how your actions lead to a result.
• Result – Use facts and statistics to demonstrate the results that your actions produced. Explain whether it was a successful outcome, and if not, what you learned from the experience.

Notes to Candidates

• Please refer to the candidate FAQ document which is a link on the job advert – this will provide you with guidance on completing the application form. Please contact [email protected] if you have any issue accessing this document
• At HM Treasury, to maximise diversity and inclusion within our workforce, we operate a fair, open and anonymous recruitment process. This means that the sift panel will only be able to assess you on the written evidence supplied in your application answers. They will not have access to personal information.
• You may be asked to provide some CV details during your application; however these will NOT be assessed during the process, but will be used to support discussions at interview – please ensure you put all information you would like to be scored against in your behaviour, experience and technical skill statements
• You will be assessed on your skills, experience and behaviours through the online application form. When completing your application form, please outline how you meet the requirements as detailed in the ‘Essential Criteria ‘section of this job description. This will give you the best chance to provide the evidence that the panel wants to assess. More guidance can be found here – completing you application
• If we receive a large number of applications, applications will be assessed initially against the lead criterion alone. You will then be assessed against the other criteria if you have met the minimum score on the first criterion.
• Find out more about how the Civil Service assesses candidates and uses Success Profiles (opens in a new window) to test skills, experience and behaviours in applications and interviews.
• Applications are not reviewed until the closing date has passed. You will be notified of the outcome of your application as soon as the recruitment panel has reviewed all the applications.

Candidate Drop-In Sessions – Microsoft Teams

We will be running some candidate drop-in sessions for this role to give you greater insight about the role as well as the chance to learn more about HM Treasury and the recruitment process. If you would like to join us, then use the appropriate link below to join the call at the right time.

Tuesday 2nd May, 5-5:30pm: Click here to join the meeting

Friday 5th May, 1-1:30pm: Click here to join the meeting

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace
• Communicating and Influencing

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

• Experience in delivering robust quantitative analysis that influences decision making.

• 25 days’ annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King's birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant)
• Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%
• Onsite restaurant and coffee bar. The London office also offers a gym, showers and prayer room
• Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme, season ticket advances and payroll giving
• Access to a retail discounts and cashback site
• A Rental Deposit Advance Scheme to help meet the total costs of deposits for privately rented homes
• A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity (e.g. women in the Treasury, ethnic minority network, LGBT* network, faith and belief network)

Flexible Working Arrangements

HM Treasury views flexible working as essential in enabling us to recruit and retain talented people, ensuring that they are able to enjoy a long-lasting career with us. All employees have the right to apply for flexible working and there are a range of options available including; working from home, compressed hours and job sharing. Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month, providing you work enough hours to meet business need.

We also offer a generous parental and adoption leave package.

At HM Treasury we have an incredibly broad remit; our work touches every citizen of the country. So, it’s important our employees come from the widest possible range of backgrounds, bringing us the widest possible range of perspectives and ways of thinking. We are committed to ensuring that all staff are able to realise their potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Job contact :

Name :
Eleanor King
Email :
[email protected]

Recruitment team

Email :
[email protected]