Company Background
About us
We are Visiativ, a global companymaking a huge impact in accelerating digital transformation. We arealso one of the world’s leading tax incentive and innovationmanagement advisors who secure funding for companies undertakingResearch and Development (R&D) and innovative activities.We now manage £1billion of global tax incentives annually forclients, including some of the world's best-knownbrands.
Why not check out our website for furtherdetails:
https://www.visiativ.com/en/about-us/
Yournew role
We are looking for atalented individual with a background in Software Development tojoin our experienced operations team of Innovation FundingExperts.
This opportunity would ideally suitsomeone who has a 2+ year background in Software Development,looking for a new opportunity or a change of focus. The opportunitywill enable you to use your technical knowledge and experience in acreative way across many sectors. This role will require you towork within a team-based consultancyenvironment.
It will also require you to havestrong technical report writing skills, interpersonal andcommunication skills, project management skills and clientrelationship-building abilities. Business travel will also berequired to some extent.
MainDuties and Responsibilities
Therole will involve writing of R&D project descriptions forsoftware companies for R&D tax credit claims for submissionto HMRC. You will obtain the necessary information in discussionswith our clients’ within the software industry. You will also berequired to gather relevant background details to complementtechnical reports.
Full training will be providedon joining the company and initially you will be work closely withour Software team:
* Meet with clientsto gather business and project information (this can be eitherremotely or face to face).
* Develop a strongunderstanding of government guidelines / legislation and Revenueguidance in regard to R&D activity, and critically assessclient projects.
* Produce technical andfinancial documentation to accurately and concisely support theR&D Tax Relief claim, ensuring claims are concluded in atimely manner.
* Review and interpret theorganisation's financial accounts, with support from our Financedepartment.
* Engage with HMRC and prepareadditional financial and technical documentation as required, if anenquiry is raised on a claim submitted.
* Maintain regular and effective communications with clientpersonnel during the claim process, and ensure clients arecommunicated with outside the claim period for improved workingrelations.
* Completion of internal system onclient activity.
* Participation in theon-boarding process, i.e., screening of prospects, utilisingknowledge and experience to inform likelihood of aclaim.
EssentialCriteria
* 2+ yearsSoftware Industry Experience
* Applicants musthave previous experience dealing with clients
* Proven experience of report writing skills
* Educated to a degree level
* Strongattention to detail
* Adept at using MicrosoftOffice packages
What’sin it for you?
* Excellent base starting salary (depending onexperience)
* Yearly salary reviews (around Julytime)
* Companywide bonus - this entails 4elements - individual, team, company and behavioural, and sits at£1,200 per year (depending on overall performance of thecompany).
* Health Insurance (including dental& eyecare)
* Life Assurance
* 5-day training allowance, being a combination of team andindividual training
* Holiday allowance of 33days, with up to an additional 1 day after 2 years service, 1 dayafter 3 years service and 1 day after 4 years service, giving atotal of 36 days per each calendar year + additional specialday.
* Company pension scheme with option forenhanced contributions
* Enhanced long-term sickpay
* Hybrid working arrangement - 2 days officebased/3 days home based
* Flexible workingenvironment
* Apple MacBook Laptopprovided
* Fun & friendly teamevents!
* Travel opportunities to variousoffices from time to time
* Opportunity to movelocation if required
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