R&D Tax and Grants Specialist

📋 Description

• Develop and execute a global grants pipeline aligned to corporate priorities.
• Map national, supranational, and regional funding schemes for fintech and financial services.
• Lead qualification, bid strategy, consortium management, and full lifecycle submission delivery.
• Coordinate cross functional inputs from Product, Engineering, Finance, Compliance, Legal, ESG, and People to ensure proposals are commercially coherent, technically robust, and compliant with funder requirements.
• Steward relationships with funding bodies, innovation agencies, development banks, export credit agencies, and regional investment authorities; governance for due diligence, eligibility, co funding, state aid/subsidy-control, and post-award obligations.
• Build metrics, dashboards, and periodic executive updates tracking pipeline, success rates, funds awarded, and business impact.

Key Responsibilities

• You will develop the global grant and incentives strategy and annual plan, aligned to corporate and product roadmaps.
• You will continuously scan and qualify opportunities across R&D and innovation, sustainability and energy transition, digital and AI adoption, workforce and skills, export and market-entry, capital investment, and regional development incentives.
• You will lead end-to-end bid management, including eligibility assessments, bid/no-bid decisions, application authoring, budget development, cost justification, partner/consortium structuring, risk registers, and submission management.
• You will coordinate internal stakeholders for technical narratives, impact cases, workplans, and IP considerations, ensuring alignment with compliance, tax, and legal requirements (including subsidy control/state aid, procurement rules, and reporting).
• You will manage relationships with programme officers, innovation agencies, and delivery partners, securing clarifications, feedback, and debriefs to continuously improve win rates.
• You will implement robust governance for grant accounting, drawdowns, audits, milestone reporting, and KPI tracking, partnering with Finance and PMO.

🎁 Benefits

• Hybrid work León office 4 days in, 1 day remote weekly.
• Global fintech with fast growth and impact.
• Inclusive culture with Women’s Network, LGBTQIA+ Network, Veterans Network.
• ESG initiatives and employee resource groups.
• Career development and cross-border exposure.