R&D Senior Manager

Job Description

Ideas | People | TrustWere BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions businesses need to navigate todays changing world.Well broaden your horizonsWorking hard and working together, our Tax team thrives on keeping busy. Friendly, driven and diverse, they service our clients across the country and around the world. By providing expertise in many different specialist areas of tax, they collaborate acrossBDO to deliver wider business solutions. From meeting clients evolving business needs to managing changes to legislation, there are always fresh challenges to face in the Tax team.Our Corporate and M&A team cover a wide spectrum of tax advisory matters including core compliance, transaction focussed advisory, tax risk, innovation and technology solutions. We work alongside the firms key sector teams. Our people have flexibility inthe areas and sectors they cover and are able to support the teams growth through their contribution.The firms specialist Innovation & Technology Group, a team within the London Corporate Tax department at the Baker Street office, comprises engineers, software developers and scientists as well as specialist finance professionals all of whom are experiencedin claiming R&D tax relief. The team works in close collaboration with our regional teams in the provision of the following services:

• Claiming R&D tax relief, R&D Tax Credits and RDEC.
• R&D Allowances (RDAs) - in collaboration with our specialist capital allowances team.
• Grants.
• Patent Box.
• International R&D relief.

This is a client-facing role where you will be liaising with key business stakeholders (CEO, finance director, technical director) from a wide range of industry sectors that undertake development activities.A key aspect of this role is the ability to build rapport with existing and potential clients, manage all aspects of the project and review the technical and financial aspects of the claim from both a quality and ethical standpoint. Depending upon the candidate,there may also be an element of sales and fee negotiation and prior experience would be useful.Responsibilities

• Leading and managing the preparation of technical and financial assessments for R&D tax relief claims.
• Identification of qualifying R&D projects and expenditure through participation in technical and financial discussions with existing and potential clients.
• Ensuring R&D claims meet the requirements of the relevant tax legislation and guidelines.
• Liaison with our corporate tax staff to assist with the preparation of the relevant tax documents to submit R&D claims to HMRC.
• Project management of claims (i.e. continuously liaising with clients, colleagues and key contacts at HMRC to ensure claims are optimised and deadlines are met).
• First point of contact with the client.
• Supporting R&D tax relief claims in the event of HMRC R&D enquiries.
• Attending meetings, building and developing effective working relationships with colleagues, intermediaries and other networks to develop further opportunities and business over time.
• As a senior manager, you would also be expected to be a role model and mentor and line manage more junior members of the team, giving them regular feedback to help them develop.
• As a senior manager, you will be expected to contribute significantly in business development activities: attending meetings with potential clients and referrers, developing new products, drafting proposals for our clients, increasing our brand and ourbusiness network and giving presentations.
• As a senior manager, you will be contributing to team wide issues and lead initiatives to help our team grow, improve our efficiency and quality or promote our brand.

Requirements

• Strong experience in the R&D tax relief services or industry equivalent
• Educated to degree level, and/or CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent or, alternatively, a holder of a university degree in science or technology, or computer science/ software development (BSc, MSc, and/or PhD). This in combination with a business degreewould be an advantage.
• Proven experience of managing several projects simultaneously and experienced in working within a business unit with internal (and external) clients.
• Proven experience of working independently on R&D tax relief claims for companies of all sizes, with proven record of comfortably liaising with Managing Directors, Financial Directors, CEOs , CTOs etc of such companies
• Understanding requirements of the relevant local tax legislation and guidelines
• Ability to guide and supervise less experienced colleagues in own area of expertise.
• Able to project a professional, credible image.
• Trustworthy and able to maintain strict confidentiality.
• Able to travel to clients premises for meetings and on-site reviews and other offices as required (and subject to BDO agile working processes).

Were in it togetherAt BDO, we believe that when our people feel valued and rewarded, their potential is unlimited. We offer highly competitive starting salaries and review remuneration packages regularly to ensure that our pay always positively reflects performance. As welloffering support with tuition and professional qualifications, we also provide the following benefits, as standard:

• 28 days holiday;
• access to a personal pension scheme, with matched employer contributions;
• life assurance cover and income protection insurance.
• buy up to ten days extra holiday;
• add on private medical, personal accident, dental insurance or travel insurance;
• receive an interest free season ticket loan or interest free graduate loan;
• access childcare vouchers;

Were looking forward to the futureAt BDO, were big enough to make the difference and collaborative enough to never lose sight of where were going. We know that its our people that make our success possible. Across our 17 UK locations, more than 5,000 of them work together to provide tax,audit, assurance and a range of advisory services that help our clients achieve their ambitious goals.

Keyskills :
R&Dresearch & developmentR&D taxinnovation & technologyR&D tax manager