EY BTS - QS Tax Senior 

India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai 

770158263

This opportunity is ideal for driven individuals with a background in IT, software, engineering, or technology, wishing to leverage and apply their technical expertise in a new way. It will also require you to have strong, board technical industry knowledge and hands on experience in IT, software, or high-technology sectors. This role will suit experienced and enthusiastic engineers who are driven to learn about new technologies and industry trends, widen their technical knowledge and have more, broader client and commercial exposure.

You will be required to work closely with our client’s C-suite executives, technologists, and engineers across a diverse range of sectors, such as technology, social networking, telecommunication, cloud computing, 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 project. You will play an active role in client discussion and creation of technical deliverables for our clients’. You will collaborate with your team in Ireland to deliver R&D tax claims for clients and will be offered the opportunity to work with the EY’s global R&D network to deliver multi jurisdiction projects aligned to the global nature of the Engineering/IT/software sector.

Your key responsibilities

As part of our Ireland Advisory for R&D Incentives team, you will advise clients on the use of public funding for global and local innovation and sustainability projects. Wide range of tasks involved in this role are:

Facilitate application of Irish Revenue’s guidelines to identify which R&D projects or aspects of projects are eligible for tax relief.

Writing detailed technical project reports describing the technological objectives, advancements, and uncertainties of the clients’ projects, to support the R&D tax claim.

Ability to provide practical approaches and solutions to situations and apply critical thinking to ensure the delivery of the project work products.

Responsible for high-quality delivery of advice and solutions to major clients, ensuring management of risk and reputation.

Building and maintaining relationships with clients to provide high levels of client service.

Maintaining up to date technical knowledge.

Skills and attributes for success

To qualify for the role, you must have

Previous R&D tax knowledge is NOT required for this role although this would be highly advantageous.

Relevant qualifications in the specific area of expertise required. For example, bachelor’s or master’s in computer science/IT.

In-depth technical expertise in your discipline and understanding the commercial/technical issues faced in the technology sector.

You have experience in dealing with technological challenges faced by professionals in the field during the design, development, implementation and testing of technological solutions.

Ability to identify and manage areas of risk, know when to refer upwards, demonstrate good judgement, objectivity, and independence.

Strong client relationship management skills with the ability to understand client’s needs and deliver quality outputs to clients.

Have excellent technical report writing, interpersonal, communication, interviewing skills and presenting ability.

You must feel comfortable discussing technical themes with clients in a personable and professional manner.

A keen desire to adapt and flex existing knowledge to different engineering sectors and build on the core capabilities.

You have the ability to swiftly adapt to and learn about different technologies utilised by our clients, such as: SOCs, semiconductors, Hadoop/Spark, Docker, cloud technologies, database engineering, database technologies, programming languages (such as .NET, JSON, SQL, Python, Java, Perl, C++, JavaScript, Objective-C, Ruby, C, Haskell, R, Scala, GoLang etc), Big Data Processing (Lambda architecture), scripting languages, as well as web and mobile technologies.

Strong attention to detail and first-time accuracy is essential.

You are proficient in the use of Microsoft Office applications.

Ideally, you’ll also have

Ideally, you will have hands on experience in the engineering, IT, technology, data and software sectors.

What we look for

The flexibility to constantly learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment.

Outgoing with good relationship skills and the ability to deliver quality output.

Continuous learning:You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.

Diverse and inclusive culture:You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.