**Consultant – Global Innovation and Investment Incentives (Gi3 UK)**

**The Opportunity**Are you interested to work with clients developing innovative and state-of-the-art technologies? Are you driven to contribute to the financing of new emerging technologies and applied sciences? Are you ready to fulfill your potential and have a significant impact to global initiatives?
If the answer to above is “Yes,” come join us!
Deloitte Tax Services India Private Limited started operations in June 2004. Since then, nearly all the Deloitte Tax LLP U.S. service lines and regions have been supported by Deloitte Tax in India. In very recent years, member firms, such as Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands or the United Kingdom have been supported within their tax practice by Deloitte Tax India practice.
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. We are looking for an open minded engineering professionals with both technical and R&D knowledge, coupled with excellent communication skills. Knowledge of the full engineering lifecycle is sought and an appreciation of the types of technical challenges encountered across this lifecycle.

**Work you’ll do**As a consultant within our team, you will be managing engagements, engaging with technical and financial teams, conducting technical interviews, undertaking analyses and utilize your communication skills to quickly understand the nature of their work and prepare high quality documentation to explain how this meets the definition of R&D for tax purposes. This will require you to draw on your existing engineering experience and knowledge, applying it to potentially new areas of science and industries.

You will work as part of a project team alongside tax practitioners to help companies to prepare their claims. You will work on multiple projects in parallel and will therefore have to manage several competing demands on your time.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will allow you to gain an understanding of a wide variety of cutting-edge innovations across different industries. Although this is not a “hands-on” design or product role, you’ll have the opportunity to take a different career route and to maintain exposure to/increase your knowledge of emerging areas of engineering and innovation.

**To list some of those key responsibilities:*** Conducting efficient technical interviews with clients’ technical experts to understand their R&D activity and then summarizing for a non-technical audience. Identify ways to improve efficiency of existing business processes.
* Working directly with clients, Deloitte Partners and Directors taking ownership of End-to-end engagement management of R&D tax claim projects
* Analyzing technical documentation and data from clients to support the development of R&D claim methodologies.
* Invest in, mentor and train a cohort of analysts/graduates.
* Champion the one-team culture across our UK and offshore delivery teams.
* Writing clear, compelling reports for appropriate authorities (typically HMRC), based on technical interviews to convey how a client’s technical activity is R&D.
* Lead projects to ensure R&D claims are delivered to time and within budget.
* Working effectively in diverse teams of tax technicians, costing specialists and technical personnel within an inclusive team culture where people are recognized for their contribution.
* Coordinate deployment and data automation for multiple projects concurrently.
* Develop technical expertise and aptitude towards innovation;

**The Team**Our “Global Investment and Innovation Incentives (Gi³)” service line is embedded within Deloitte’s T&L practice and focused on advising companies in their pursuit of the right incentives by developing and executing an effective incentives strategy for their specific needs. The large majority of our Gi³ team members are scientists and engineers. Gi³ team then offers specific related knowledge and added value consultancy. This expertise allows our clients to take advantage of various incentives and grants related to their priorities in terms of Research & Development [R&D], innovation and sustainability. Further development of their intellectual properties and R&D activities can then leverage on those governmental support.
To assist our clients in dealing with those government incentives, our team based in the UK proposes the services of a multi-disciplinary team of over 100 specialists (Lawyers, Economists, Scientists, Engineers or IT-specialists) highly experienced in assisting companies with multi-jurisdictions compliance, dealing with the complexities of local regulations and procedures – such as communicating with local grant and tax authorities, setting up new registrations and preparation & filling of government incentives applications.
We are principally a UK-based team with colleagues in the Deloitte USI at Bangalore and are looking to further build our Bangalore capability.

**What we’re looking for*** You must feel comfortable discussing technical themes with clients in a personable and professional manner.
* Be trained to degree level in any of the Core engineering disciplines.
* A corporate industry experience will enable you to quickly understand a wide range of different engineering practices and their application in a variety of business and industry sectors ranging from start-ups to global giants!
* A strong communicator both orally and through writing, being able to deliver high quality reports. You interact readily with other technical professionals, have outstanding interpersonal skills and excel in concise summary of information
* Demonstrable experience in running projects / client engagements to time and within budget
* Interest and ability to support market / business development activities
* Good interpersonal awareness skills, comfortable speaking with clients. You have excellent spoken and written formal business English, communicating clearly and concisely in meetings and via email.
* Be technologically curious, having a critical engineering mindset and able to apply appropriate scepticism.
* Have a structured and organised approach to work, complemented with an eye for detail.
* Be well organised, able to manage multiple projects and handling competing demands in a timely manner.

**Work Location:** Bangalore

**Shift Timings:** 11 AM to 8 PM IST

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