Due to its continued growth and the success of its business, LEYTON SVERIGE AB wishes to recruit a dynamic and ambitious JUNIOR R&D Financial Consultant.
The primary focus of the role will be to provide financial support to Swedish Companies who invest in R&D. You will be working with existing and new clients to extend and expand their businesses in line with their business costs, helping them to identify if their work is technically qualifying for R&D in conjunction with our engineering/science team.
About Leyton
Leyton is a leading consultancy firm with a unique goal: to quickly improve the financial performance of its clients without impacting on their core business.
The services offered by Leyton are focused around this goal, and range from innovation financing (through tax incentives as well as grants & subsidies), energy-related services (procurement, certificates), business process outsourcing (for public and private sector), social charges, procurement and tax-related product (VAT,local tax).
Leyton is now present in 16 countries (Belgium, Canada France, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands,Poland, Spain, United Kingdom, Germany, the United States of America, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland) with more than people entirely focused on improving the financial situation of our approx. 50,000 clients.
Our Swedish office has been open since January 2021 and we wish to expand in the Swedish market.
We offer real career opportunities in a fast-growing, friendly firm with a dynamic and ambitious team.
Main responsibilities will include:
- The Financial consultant will support the finance team with data cleaning, structuring and modelling data with the help of excel, power query and M-coding language.
- Additionally, the responsibility will extend to invoicing, tracking our revenues, providing financial projections and forecasting.
- Understanding the requirements for R&D tax relief and applying them in respect to clients’ development activities to ensure the relevant tax legislation and guidelines are met.
- Drafting of clear financial documents to justify R&D activities to the Swedish tax authorities (Skatteverket).
- Determining the appropriate method of data collection
- Staying abreast of industry developments and legislative changes relevant to the R&D tax relief. (This is to do with the changes of legislation, to have the will to update yourself on Skatteverkets’ updated website and legislation).
- Managing client’s R&D claims throughout the project, to ensure deadlines and objectives are met.
- Providing support to R&D tax relief claims in the event of enquiries from the Swedish Tax Authorities (Skatteverket
Desired experience and skills:
- Fluent in Swedish (spoken and written). You will be in contact with Swedish Clients.
- Curiosity, analytical mindset, awareness and an interest in science, technology and innovation
- Previous Knowledge in: Programming, data cleaning and structuring.
- A good team player and also able to coordinate different projects simultaneously
- Outstanding numerical ability and basic excel knowledge (V LOOK UP & H LOOK UP (The new version is X LOOK UP, which does both) / If functions / Pivot tables
- Bonus / Power query (Data cleaning and consolidation) / A proven track record of working to tight deadlines.
- Experience in Client relationship management.
- Previous experience with accounting and tax, and also experience with Skatteverket is preferable.
- Bonus: Experience in working in international environment.
Why Work For Us?
- Rapid career growth and progression, within a dynamic rapidly growing organization
- 30 days holidays
- Attractive bonus package
- Free access to gym
- Private healthcare and pension
- Global established brand that has experienced double digit growth since its inception 26 years ago
- Strong company and result-driven culture with an extremely inclusive atmosphere and a high level of appreciation for meritocracy.
We are proud to have more than 3000 employees in 34 offices across 16 countries in Europe, North Africa and North America. We have highly qualified teams of consultants in sales, science, tax, engineering and software who have helped deliver a high success rate for Swedish Tax Authority submissions.
If you’re looking for a role which offers a dynamic and friendly environment with like-minded people and a first-class training and development programme, then please apply now!
