Golang Job: Technical Consultant

R&D Tax IT/Software Consultant

Team:

EY’s Innovation Incentives team is made up of tax, technology, engineering and science specialists who work on a wide variety of high profile clients. The team is growing from strength to strength and is not only involved in supporting companies with claiming the Research and Development Tax Credit, but also in making successful grant applications, Knowledge Development Box claims and Capital Allowances claims.

With the innovation incentive space growing rapidly, this has led to an increase in investment by companies in IT and technology. As a result, we are delighted to present an exciting opportunity for highly motivated and enthusiastic individuals with backgrounds in IT, Software, Advanced Mathematics or Engineering to join EY’s fast growing and highly successful National Tax practice. This position provides a unique opportunity for the successful candidate to work closely with our clients’ C-suite executives, technologists and engineers across a diverse range of sectors, such as telecommunications, social networking, data collection, big data analytics, cloud computing, advanced mathematics, financial services, software product development and so much more. Your role will involve being responsible for critically analysing the scientific and technological aspects of a client’s R&D IT/Technology project. You also will play an active role in detailed technical client discussions and creation of technical R&D deliverables for our clients. You will also have the opportunity to widen your technical and business skill set while working within a professional services environment and proactively contributing to building a business.

Opportunity:

This opportunity is ideal for individuals with relevant specialist qualifications or experience in IT, software, engineering or technology, wishing to leverage and apply their specialist technical skills in a new way. It will also require you to have strong technical industry knowledge and hands-on experience in IT, for example, in the areas of data mining, modelling, advanced mathematics or high technology sectors. This role will suit experienced and enthusiastic engineers/technologists who are driven to learn about new technologies and industry trends, widen their technical knowledge and have broader client and commercial exposure.

The successful candidate will get the opportunity to work as part of a growing and dynamic specialist practice with a diverse team of highly successful tax and science/engineering/technology specialists.

Responsibilities:

The successful candidate’s main responsibility will be to not only work very closely with the senior technical consultants on the team, but also clients’ senior engineering/technology and scientific personnel from across a range of industry sectors. Leveraging from their technical knowledge and experience, the successful candidate will be responsible for analysing technical aspects of clients’ projects, assisting in determining whether those projects are eligible for R&D tax relief, and documenting why those projects are qualifying R&D projects from a technical perspective. The successful candidate’s main responsibilities will include:

• Working with senior team members to conduct detailed technical interviews with the clients’ senior technical and engineering staff, to develop an understanding of the technical characteristics of the projects undertaken.
• Communicating directly with clients including scheduling technical interviews, issuing deliverables and answering queries.
• Creating detailed technical project reports describing the technological objectives, advancements and uncertainties of clients’ projects to support their R&D claim.
• Analysing, understanding and interpreting complex technical information provided by clients, to draw appropriate conclusions.
• Assisting in the provision of high quality advice and solutions to clients, ensuring management of risk and reputation.
• Ability to provide practical approaches and solutions to situations and apply critical thinking to ensure the delivery of high quality technical work products.
• Anticipating and identifying risks that require escalation and subsequently escalating these risks to more senior staff, as appropriate.
• Supporting the business in winning new clients through the preparation of proposal documents.
• Performing engagement management tasks and PMO tasks.
• Working as an effective member of a project team, exhibiting excellent communication skills and being able to work co-operatively and create synergies with other team members of different skill sets.
• Supporting in the successful delivery of technically complex and demanding consulting projects, ensuring technical excellence and practical/business driven approach taken.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science/Applications/Information Systems, Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Advanced Mathematics, Big Data Analytics or a related discipline (2.1 or higher).
• Master’s Degree or PhD in a relevant discipline would be an advantage.
• Previous R&D tax knowledge is NOT required for this role although would be highly advantageous.
• Experience working in a field of science or technology (again NOT required for this role) would be highly advantageous.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Demonstrate ability to quickly assimilate new knowledge.
• A track record in creating or reviewing technical documentation and have a sound grasp of Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Demonstrate good knowledge of their field of science or technology, and demonstrate an understanding of the commercial/technical issues faced in this field.
• Interviewing and presenting skills.
• Team player.
• An interest in other fields of science/technology would also represent an advantage
• Knowledge of or experience working with IT technologies and concepts such as, Cloud Computing, Network Security, Computer Networking, Database Engineering, Cybersecurity/Cryptography, Big Data, modelling and computational methods, programming languages (such as .NET, JSON, SQL, Python, Java, Perl, C++, C#, JavaScript, Objective-C, Ruby, C, Haskell, R, Scala, GoLang, etc)., Artificial Intelligence, Mathematical Techniques and Pattern Recognition.
• Maintaining and constantly upgrading technical knowledge and personal skills.
• Ability to identify logical or innovative solutions to complex or unusual problems.