Senior Associate – Innovation Taxes

Recruitment Avenue; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking enthusiastic professionals to join their London office, focusing on Innovation Taxes, including R&D and Patent Box. This exciting role involves a blend of technical work and business development, where you'll prepare claims, handle technical queries, and maintain essential resources. You'll also engage in marketing activities, including refreshing case studies and drafting social media content. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a high-profile team while developing your career in a dynamic environment that values proactive and skilled individuals. If you have a passion for science and technology, this role could be your perfect fit.

Qualifications

• Experience working with internal and external clients is essential.
• Strong communication skills to convey complex ideas simply.

Responsibilities

• Prepare R&D claims and maximize tax benefits.
• Maintain and update R&D and Patent Box website pages.

Skills

Communication Skills

Numerical Ability

Proactivity

Teamwork

Commercial Awareness

Job description

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