Senior Associate - Innovation Taxes

Our client is looking for enthusiastic professionals with an interest in developing a career within Innovation Taxes (R&D and patent box) / science / technology to join a high profile team within our clients London office.

The role would be a mixture of fee earning work and BD / marketing. Ideally the person will get involved with the following:

Technical

• Preparation of R&D claims and how to maximise the tax benefits
• Help with technical queries
• Preparation of Patent Box calculations and modelling of future patent box benefits

Business development

• Maintenance of the 'R&D' and 'Patent Box' website pages
• Refreshing the R&D case studies each year
• Reviewing and updating tax flyers: 'R&D'; 'Patent Box'; 'Making the most of your assets'; 'Invent it, make it, sell it'
• Maintaining and updating the R&D report template and patent Box calculator
• Identifying post 1 April / Budget/ other technical changes and disseminating these internally and externally
• Assistance with innovation tax related tax alerts / articles for press
• Collating annual statistics and annual 'credentials'
• Help running the Innovation Taxes meetings
• Drafting of social media comments (tweets / LinkedIn)

Requirements:

• Experienced in working with a business unit with internal and external clients
• Excellent communication skills ( both written and verbal) and people skills with the ability to translate complex ideas into non-technical concepts
• Strong numerical ability
• Be highly proactive in the approach to new work opportunities
• Team player and ability to work to own initiative
• Ability to demonstrate a high level of commercial awarenes