Associate Director, Software Professional, Research & Development Incentives, Tax & Legal, UK wide

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Job description

Connect to your Industry

The UK government provides tax incentives to businesses performing R&D; Deloitte's R&D tax services group is a market leader in helping clients secure these incentives and is the most experienced team in the UK.

Continued market success has created new opportunities and we are looking for open minded information technology/software development professionals to join this successful team. You will have the opportunity to apply your technical knowledge across a wide range of areas and to help companies identify qualifying R&D and benefit from making claims for these incentives. R&D activity can be necessary across much of the software development lifecycle and in a variety of technology projects, both large and small, and across industry sectors.

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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise , we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete . To do this, we invest in outstanding people . We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds , and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

As a Associate Director you will be in a client facing role from day one, conducting technical interviews and preparing documentation to support R&D tax claims. This will require you to draw on your existing IT experience and knowledge, applying it to potentially new areas of technology and industries.

Although this is not a "hands-on" role, you will be able to gain an understanding of a wide variety of cutting edge technologies, with the opportunity to take a different career route and maintain exposure to and increase your knowledge of emerging areas of technology and innovation.

You will be working with senior technical and finance staff within our client companies where you will need to understand the nature of the work being performed and prepare high quality documentation to explain how projects meet the definition of R&D.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Analysing technical data and documentation from clients to support the planning and development of R&D claim methodologies
• Conducting efficient technical interviews with clients' technical experts to understand their R&D activity and then summarising the output from these interviews in documentation for a non-technical audiences.
• Work within a project team to ensure that the appropriate costs linked to the client's technical activity are captured within the R&D claims.
• Preparing clear reports for submission to HMRC to explain how our clients R&D claims have been prepared.
• Provide technical input into marketing and sales activity based on your area of technology knowledge and experience.
• Work effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution.
• Project managing a variety of projects at any given time and being able to delegate and work with the technical and finance team around you.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

• Be trained to degree level in an IT or computer science discipline - or equivalent, that will enable you to quickly understand a wide range of different technologies and their application in a variety of business and industry sectors ranging from tech start-ups to global giants!
• You will have developed a technical expertise in at least one area of technology and/or software development.
• Be a strong communicator, with good interpersonal awareness skills.
• Be able to work within multi-disciplinary teams, taking responsibility for the technical aspects of R&D claims on the behalf of companies from a variety of sectors, as well as generating high quality technical reports.
• Be technologically curious, having a critical engineering mindset and able to apply appropriate scepticism.
• Be well-organised, able to manage multiple projects and handle conflicting demands in a timely manner.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect to your business - Tax

Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that's exactly what you'll find at Deloitte. We're constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what's possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own.

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in any of our UK office locations with hybrid working. Our hybrid model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity. As well as remote working, you'll attend your local office, virtual collaboration spaces and client sites, depending on the requirements of the role.

Connect to your return to work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers