Intellectual Property Valuation Specialist

Job description

This role is suitable for those with a valuation and/or tax Compliance background.

Your role within SAV will be as an Intellectual Property Valuation Specialist within the Intangibles and Intellectual Property Team, specialising in the valuation of goodwill, software, licences and intellectual property such as trademarks, patents and technical know-how. 
 
With your transferrable skills, drive and ability to improve your specialised area of valuation knowledge, we will fully support you with a training plan to better you as an Intellectual Property Valuation Specialist.  

Most valuations you take responsibility of, will involve multi-national enterprises and require the need to consider international tax issues such as transfer pricing and fair value accounting. 
 
You will liaise with customers verbally and in writing on valuation and tax technical matters, putting your knowledge and skills into practice. Providing clear leadership on valuation aspects while using your soft skills to manage high profile stakeholders, both internal and external, providing challenge where necessary. 
 
Over the years SAV has developed a level of expertise and the breadth of the work undertaken by SAV requires the Valuer to be experts not only in valuation methodology but to have finely honed negotiation skills too. 
 
The role of an Intellectual Property Valuation Specialist in business valuation is encompassed within the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and we will support you in becoming members of this organisation. We will also support you through your RICS Assessment of Professional Competence for the Business Valuation Faculty leading to full RICS membership. 

Person specification

As an Intellectual Property Valuation Specialist, you will lead on the following:-

• Taking ownership on the valuation of a number of high value, complex and sensitive valuations. 

• Working with HMRC’s Customer Compliance Group, particularly Large Business and Mid-sized Business and collaborating with HMRC’s Technical teams including Accountancy and Transfer Pricing where valuation issues arise. 
• Developing a deep understanding of the evolving valuation principles involved in this area of work whilst collaborating with other Intellectual Property Valuation Specialists by sharing technical knowledge and providing coaching. 

Essential Criteria 

• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills.
• Excellent evidence-based decision-making skills and confidence in owning and communicating those decisions.
• Substantial experience and understanding of complex valuation, taxation or accountancy issues within a tax environment.
• Complex business value experience or Tax Compliance experience. 

Qualifications (or equivalent) held 

• RICS (Associate (AssocRICS) and Chartered (MRICS))
• Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA) 
• Chartered Accountant (ICAEW, ICAS, CAI, ACCA) 
• Successfully completed the HMRC Tax Specialist Programme or one of its predecessors (TPDP, IDP, ITS2, CPT, FT2) 
• Be a qualified solicitor with relevant post qualification experience, or 
• Be able to demonstrate significant experience in complex valuation, taxation or accountancy within a tax environment.