The R&D Team
Our Lumina R&D team is a specialist unit dedicated to supporting innovative SMEs in navigating one of the most complex areas of the UK tax landscape. Built on deep technical and legislative expertise, the team combines former HMRC insight, chartered tax knowledge and real world engineering experience to deliver robust, defensible R&D claims.
Meet the Experts
The Lumina R&D team brings together a rare blend of tax, technical and industry expertise. Led by Suzanne Clements, a former senior HMRC R&D Inspector with 14 years’ experience inside HMRC’s specialist units.
Alongside Suzanne, experienced tax professionals and chartered specialists work with engineers, technologists and sector experts whose backgrounds span software development, advanced engineering, construction and applied sciences. This combination of financial precision and technical depth enables Lumina to translate complex innovation into clear, compliant and defensible R&D claims.
Suzanne Clements
Head of R&D
Lisa Waller FCCA CTA
QA & Technical Policy ManagerHow You Can Grow Here
R&D Tax offers varied career paths depending on your skills and ambitions. Whether you’re client-facing, technically focused, or aspiring to leadership, there’s a clear route for progression.
R&D Technologist
R&D Tax Specialist
R&D Quality Assurance
A Day in the Life
A typical day in the Lumina R&D team combines technical discussion with detailed analysis. You might meet with engineers or developers to understand the innovation behind a project, then translate that into a clear, compliant narrative supported by robust financial data.
Working closely with tax specialists and technologists, you help ensure every claim is defensible, aligned with current legislation and built to withstand scrutiny.
R&D tax is one of the most scrutinised areas of the UK tax system. Our responsibility is to ensure every claim we submit is technically sound, fully evidenced and something we are prepared to defend. By combining HMRC insight with real world technical expertise, we give innovative SMEs confidence in an increasingly complex landscape.
