City, Manchester PwC.
PwC's national Innovation and Capital Incentives (ICI) team are passionate about helping clients obtain the incentives and allowances available to support their investment in innovation and capital assets.

Based in the Leeds & Manchester office, we are a diverse team with a strong focus on growth.

The role

We are looking to recruit an individual at Senior Manager level with experience of Capital Allowances and are keen to hear from people who are passionate about innovation, getting to know a broad range of businesses and having a direct role in growing our Capital Allowances practice.

We are particularly focussed on candidates able to support us in:

• Being involved on real estate, infrastructure and private equity deals from a Capital Allowances perspective
  
• Managing a portfolio of Capital Allowance clients and project delivery across these.
  
• Managing the preparation of Capital Allowance claims for submission to HMRC
  
• Managing client engagements and developing strong relationships with both our clients and internal stakeholders
  
• Preparing responses to or liaising with HMRC with regard to queries they have on Capital Allowance claims on behalf of our clients
  
• Advising clients and internal stakeholders on tax technical points.
  
• Supervising Managers and juniors undertaking the work and keeping more senior stakeholders updated on progress
  
• Helping to identify and develop new opportunities, including involvement in pitching for work. Being empowered to do this as a leader in the team
  
• Working collaboratively with a strong team focused in deals tax
  

Essential skills and experience

• Experience of working in a deals tax environment, specialising in Capital Allowances.
  
• Excellent working knowledge of tax incentives and experience in preparing Capital Allowances claims.
  
• Strong project management skills - able to manage many live projects and deals at once and plan own workload.
  
• Excellent communication skills - the candidate will be expected to be the 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 a growing team of associates supporting the Capital Allowances 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.