AddressWe are a leading provider of tax and business rates relief advice. Established within the last five years, the company has grown to an 80-person firm with multiple product lines and aspirations of further product and geographical diversification in the short-to-mid-term. Our swift ascent has been due to a strict adherence to service delivery and exacting standards. This role joins us at an important and exciting stage of our growth story.
Roles and Responsibilities
This Head of Department role is for an experienced professional (with either a tax/finance or engineering/technology background) with extensive experience in the application and operation of the UK R&D Tax Incentives regime. We are specifically seeking an individual that has a proven track record working across a diverse range of industries in which our clients operate and who is seasoned at managing a team or teams of R&D tax consultants.
Required duties will include:
- Leadership of the team including team recruitment, mentoring and training along with development of our operational practices.
- Inclusion in team budgeting and forecasting of team output revenues on a monthly and annual basis
- Lead engagement teams and further develop robust claim methodologies to support R&D Tax Incentive claims that will be submitted to HMRC. This will include managing the overall client engagement, identify and mitigate any inherent risks and overseeing the technical and costing aspects.
- Review documentation to support the R&D Tax Incentive claims, including technical and financial deliverables along with complex calculations supporting the quantification of the qualifying expenditure in accordance with the tax legislation.
- Work with our Compliance team to respond to HMRC enquiries into R&D Tax Incentive claims.
Our ideal candidate will have:
- Significant experience in managing technical staff up to Manager level
- Significant experience in R&D Tax Incentives, with a background in Corporate Tax and/or Engineering/Technology having extensive knowledge of relevant legislation and HMRC guidance
- Extensive experience of leading engagement teams and developing methodologies to support successful R&D Tax Incentive claims that will be submitted to HMRC across multiple sectors.
- Strong attention to detail, to enable you to review complex technical information before submission to the client and/or HMRC, whilst maintaining an overall strategic and customer service focused perspective, for all deliverables we produce for our clients.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to quickly adapt to a range of situations and audiences from both written and oral perspective.
- Experience providing clear and constructive guidance to the teams with which you work to ensure the efficient delivery of high-quality work to our clients and HMRC.
- Knowledge of wider innovation incentive regimes (e.g. Patent Box, Grants and/or Capital Allowances) would be advantageous.
The package on offer is:
- Negotiable base salary, depending on experience
- Quarterly bonus scheme
- Generous profit share scheme
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per year with an additional day awarded for your birthday. Holiday entitlement will increase by 2 days after 2 years and 1 day per annum of service thereafter to a maximum of 30 days
- Life insurance and health insurance policies
- Company pension contributions are 5%
- Enhanced parental leave
