Manager, SR&ED Technical

Baker Tilly Windsor is looking for a Manager to join our SR&ED Tax practice. With a new office located in the heart of Walkerville, we can offer a unique space to come in every day. We offer you a lot of flexibility on where you work, when you work and how you work. We have a great team who works hard and plays hard, including Fridays off in the summer. We’ve thrown axes at the boss (okay, at a picture of the boss), enjoyed wine tours as a group and even spent a day at a watch factory. We respect and promote work-life balance, allowing each of our professionals the ability to schedule their day.

Baker Tilly is one of the largest firms of chartered accountants in Canada. We offer the opportunity to pursue your professional accounting career in a large firm with significant resources and mentoring while still enjoying an exceptional work-life balance.

Our unique structure fosters a client-service focus built from local, national, and international expertise. We are a proud member of Baker Tilly International, giving us a diversified team of over 25,000 partners and staff spanning 145 countries. Our Windsor office is one of the area's fastest growing accounting and advisory firms in the area. Collectively, we offer a comprehensive range of accounting, auditing, tax and business advisory services to mid-market commercial clients, their shareholders and families, as well as multi-national businesses and not-for-profit organizations.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Interviews clients, uncovering all SR&ED eligible projects and all information required to prepare the T661 filing.
• Prepares the technical narratives for SR&ED tax credit claims of clients. This will also include the identification of specific employees, subcontractors and material expended in connection with the eligible activities identified and determining the amount of effort relating thereto.
• Advises and supports clients before and during any CRA technical review for SR&ED tax credit claims and responds to correspondence that is initiated by CRA surrounding technology aspects of the submitted SR&ED claim, if any.
• Gathers samples of client supporting documents as claim(s) are prepared.
• Participates in sales activities and attends, from time to time, in sales and business development meetings with the firm’s SR&ED practice Principal and business development professionals.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
  
  
  

A successful candidate will have:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent,
• 5+ years of experience related industry experience (programming, system analysis, software architecture or development) and at 2+ years of SR&ED tax credit preparation experience is a strong asset.
• Execute duties with significant attention to detail and maintain high quality standards
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Excellent oral, written and presentation communication skills (including strong spelling, editing, proofreading, punctuation, and grammar skills)
• Strong ability to develop and maintain successful relationships.
• Adaptable and able to work within tight deadlines, showing flexibility.
  
  
  

Application Information:

We offer a very competitive salary and benefits package based on experience and qualifications, as well as the opportunity to excel and advance your career in a dynamic public accounting environment.

If you are interested in applying for this position, submit your resume and cover letter to [email protected].

We thank all applicants for their interest but only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.