Capital Allowances Manager

PwC.
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 clients ranging from multinational organisations and public sector bodies to entrepreneurs and family businesses, the work we do is diverse.
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.

We are a national team, based across all regions. We are a diverse team with a strong focus on growth.

The role

We are looking to recruit an individual at 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:

• Providing support on real estate and infrastructure deals, claim preparation and technical advice, designing and building fixed asset technology solutions for inbound and listed groups of all sizes, across various sectors from a Capital Allowances perspective
• Managing a portfolio of Capital Allowance clients and project delivery across these
• 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 juniors undertaking the work and apprising more senior stakeholders of progress
• Helping to identify and develop new business development opportunities, including involvement in proposing for work
• Working collaboratively with a strong team focus

Essential skills and experience

• Experience of working in a 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 several live projects 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