Line of Service
Tax
Industry/Sector
Not Applicable
Specialism
General Tax Consulting
Management Level
Senior Associate
Job Description & Summary
Closing Date: 4pm 15 December
Qualification: A qualification is required for this role. If you’re on an exam pathway, you’ll be required to have sat and passed all of your exams to be eligible to apply for a Senior Associate transfer role
Location: Manchester
About the team & role
PwC’s 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 the Northern region (Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Belfast, Newcastle, Leeds, and Manchester), we are a diverse team with a strong focus on growth.
We are looking to recruit an individual with a background in Science/Engineering at Senior Associate level who are passionate about innovation, getting to know a broad range of businesses and having a direct role in growing our ICI practice.
This is an ideal role for a qualified computer scientist, software architect or IT engineer interested in the world of Research & Development claims. This is an opportunity to become part of a large and growing team in the UK, and to work on different aspects of R&D claims, from campaigns, to proposals, delivery, and team leadership activities.
Responsibilities
Typical tasks in this role include:
* Support the technical lead during preparation of proposals
* Support in interviews with client engineers to understand and document their R&D needs
* Support summarising the R&D in client engineering projects
* Assist in meetings with HMRC and support client engineers during enquiries
* Work collaboratively with our tax-legislation experts in the team, to support the quantifying of R&D costs
* Work with the senior team to support or initiate sales opportunities in a sector
* Optional: Initiate ideas for digital acceleration and other automation tools.
Essential skills and experience
* Computer science or software engineering university degree (or masters or PhD)
* Academic or industry experience in software engineering or IT
* Experience in developing and documenting software engineering or IT projects
* Experience in preparing R&D incentives claims preparation
* Experience in liaising with HMRC’s software specialists
* Experience in supporting client engineers during enquiries with HMRC
Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)
Degrees/Field of Study required:
Degrees/Field of Study preferred:
Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)
0. Global: Associate Chartered Accountants (ACA) - Chartered Accountants (required)
Required Skills
Optional Skills
Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)
Travel Requirements
Not Specified
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
Yes
Government Clearance Required?
No
Job Posting End Date