Tax, R&D, Manager

Job Description

We help our clients stay ahead of changes that impact their businesses, navigating complexity and risk. We deliver deep tax technical, people and legal expertise, while providing the critical context to make informed and compliant decisions. With clientsranging from multinational organisations and public sector bodies to entrepreneurs and family businesses, the work we do is diverse. PwCs National Innovation and Capital Incentives (ICI) team are passionate about helping clients obtain the R&D incentives available to support their investment in innovation. Based in London, our Listed & Inbound ICI team is a diverse group of specialists,with a strong focus on growth. We are looking to recruit an individual with a background in Science/Engineering at Manager level with good experience of UK R&D tax incentives to take a leading role in helping our clients understand the definition of R&D for tax credits, guide them throughthe process of making R&D eligibility assessments and manage the preparation of robust, high quality documentation to support their claims. We are keen to hear from people who are passionate about innovation, getting to know a broad range of businesses and taking responsibility for the delivery of our R&D services to clients.

• We are particularly focussed on candidates able to support us in:
• Managing a portfolio of R&D clients and project delivery across these
• Leading workshops with clients to brief them fully on the R&D incentives regime, taking responsibility for managing the input of the client technical teams to facilitate the quantification of the claims and managing the preparation of supporting documentation,developing strong relationships with both our clients and internal stakeholders
• Preparation/ review of documentation for submission to HMRC, including descriptions of R&D activities and detailed project summaries to support the R&D claims
• Oversight of the R&D claim preparation, including ensuring R&D eligibility assessments are appropriately reflected in the quantification of the claim
• Preparing responses to or liaising with HMRC with regard to queries they have on R&D claims on behalf of our clients
• Advising clients and internal stakeholders on the R&D tax incentives regimes
• Supervising juniors undertaking the work and appraising more senior stakeholders of progress
• Helping to identify and develop new opportunities, including involvement in pitching for work

Essential skills and experience

• Excellent working knowledge of tax incentives and experience in preparing claims including:
• UK R&D tax incentive regimes (ideally covering both SME and RDEC claims) and experience making claims across a range of industries and/or
• Strong project management skills - able to manage several live projects at once and planning your own workload.
• Excellent communication skills - the candidate will be expected to be a key point of contact on the projects they manage, supporting a range of stakeholders including client contacts, PwC staff in the incentives team and also in the wider tax practice.
• Coaching and delegation - the successful candidate will help other Managers and Senior Managers in the team coach and delegate to a team of associates supporting the ICI team, helping them grow their technical expertise alongside their soft skills.
• Good written skills including report writing, technical memo drafting and concise advice notes for sharing with clients.
• Analytical skills for numerical analysis of client data.