R&D Tax | Software Manager
Employer Location Manchester, United Kingdom Salary Competitive Closing date 16 Aug 2025 View more categoriesView less categories Sector Salary band Contract type Hours Where will they be working You need to or to save a job.
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About the role
We're hiring a Manager for our Innovation & Capital Incentives team to support UK and US clients with R&D tax incentives. You will lead junior software consultants, guiding clients in innovation fields like AI, cybersecurity, and quantum computing. You'll set technical quality standards, conduct key meetings, and simplify complex technical concepts for HMRC and IRS R&D tax compliance. Your role includes coordinating cross-territory deliveries and linking client engineering teams with PwC's tax specialists.
What your days will look like
1. Team Leadership and Development: Lead and mentor junior software consultants by fostering a collaborative culture focused on coaching, support, and continuous learning, encouraging junior staff to take project ownership and broaden their technical skills.
2. Client Engagement and Relationship Management: Drive client engagement in the UK and US by leading technical discussions, building trusted relationships with stakeholders, and supporting business development efforts to grow the R&D pipeline through collaboration and thought leadership.
3. Technical Communication and Documentation: Transform complex software and technology concepts into clear narratives for R&D tax claims, ensuring accurate technical documentation and overseeing the preparation and review of reports in line with HMRC and IRS guidance.
4. Cross-Functional Coordination and Process Optimization: Collaborate with financial and tax teams to align project insights with cost analysis, identify opportunities for technology and process improvements to enhance delivery efficiency, and ensure comprehensive, high-quality client submissions.
This role is for you if
5. Proficient in explaining software development methodologies like Agile and DevOps and identifying R&D in real-world projects.
6. Experienced in writing or reviewing code in languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, C++, or Go.
7. Familiar with modern software architecture patterns, including microservices and RESTful APIs.
8. Understands cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP for application development and deployment.
9. Experienced with software development tools such as Git, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and testing frameworks.
10. Skilled at translating technical activities for non-technical stakeholders and comfortable discussing projects with engineers or product teams.
What you'll receive from us
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No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions.
We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.
Company
In order to be the leading professional services firm it's important we have the right values, culture and behaviours embedded throughout our organisation, so our work reflects our purpose and we can successfully deliver our strategy.
Our set the expectations for the way we interact with each other, our clients, and in the communities in which we operate. These values, and the behaviours that they require from us, are relevant to all our people regardless of grade.
They support a culture that empowers our people to be the best they can be, through challenging experiences and encouraging our people to speak up to make the firm a better place. We want all our people to understand and embrace the culture and personally feel part of the legacy this will create for our future employees.
We’re a hugely diverse business, bound together by our purpose - to build trust in society and solve important problems for our clients and the communities in which we operate. We believe we can make the biggest impact when our purpose is embedded within everything we do.
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