Tax Credits & Incentives Advisory Senior Associate - R&D

Ranked among the largest accounting and consulting firms in the country and consistently recognized as a Great Place to Work, Cherry Bekaert delivers innovative advisory, assurance and tax services to our clients. We are proud to foster a collaborative environment focused on enabling your career growth and continuous professional development. Our Tax Credits & Incentives Advisory team is looking for an R&D Senior Associate with a background in R&D Tax Credit consulting services. The R&D Senior Associate will have the opportunity to work hybrid from any of our office locations or remotely from within the United States.   

As an R&D Senior Associate, you will:  

• Provide tax consulting services as it relates to the Research and Development Tax Credit and the capitalization and amortization rules under IRC Section 174. 

• Understand common software development methodologies, programing concepts, architectural design patterns, and popular computer software terms, such as programming languages, backend database schema, messaging ques and techniques, etc. 

• Conduct technical interviews, within the context of Section 41 to gather qualitative details as to how client’s work meets the definition of qualifying research activities. 

• Review technical documentation to draft project narratives to document how client projects meet Section 41 guidelines. 

• Work with team members to scope Research Tax Credit benefits, conduct Research Tax Credit studies, perform tax technical research, and interact with clients in a wide range of industries. 

• Create and update costing models in which the business expenditures are tracked and the credits and capitalization amounts are calculated. 

• Understand the value of employer time tracking and how it can be integrated into a project.   

What you bring to the role:  

• Prior experience from an accounting firm working with clients and the IRC Section 41 research credit.   

• Recent industry experience in software development, consulting, or engineering preferable. 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering, Technology, Information Systems, Accounting or Finance 

• Knowledge of common computer infrastructure concepts, web-based or n-tiered architectures, performance tuning of databases and middleware 

• Written and verbal communication skills adequate to conduct technical interviews with technical management, solution architects, and product owners to gather qualitative details and write up project narratives to summarize findings. 

• Strong writing skills to<