Financial Services Tax - Research and Development Manager
Employer Location London, United Kingdom Salary Competitive Closing date 1 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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Join PwC's National Innovation and Capital Incentives (ICI) team as a Financial Services Tax R&D Manager, where innovation meets exceptional client service. You'll guide clients through UK R&D tax incentives, including Research & Development reliefs, Patent Box claims, and Capital Allowances. We're seeking candidates with substantial R&D tax experience or a science/tech background adept at producing robust documentation for tax credit claims. Ideal candidates are proactive and responsible, eager to engage with diverse businesses. This role offers a fast-paced environment that values creativity and excellence. Make a significant impact and help businesses grow through innovation.
What your days will look like:
1. Managing client engagements and 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
2. Oversight of the R&D claim preparation, including ensuring R&D eligibility assessments are appropriately reflected in the quantification of the claim
3. Advising clients and internal stakeholders on tax technical and accounting issues in relation to the R&D incentive regimes and upcoming changes
4. Supervising juniors undertaking the work and appraising more senior stakeholders of progress
This role is for you if you have:
5. UK R&D tax incentive regimes including a good understanding of the upcoming regime changes
6. Strong project management skills - able to manage several live projects at once and planning your own workload.
7. 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.
8. 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.
What you'll receive from us:
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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