R&D Tax Credits Consultant - Senior Associate in London

A career within Corporate Tax services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet their tax obligations while managing the impact tax has on their business. You'll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing working capital, and profit sharing for partners. You'll also help organisations understand the pricing implications of goods and services between related parties, as well as providing advice on tax implications of deals. Our team helps our clients improve their tax function to control risk and facilitate better decision making. You'll focus on helping businesses with tax strategy, ensuring tax compliance, increasing post tax profits, and providing application support to achieve the best corporate tax practices.
About the role:

We are looking for a Senior Associate to join our Listed and Inbound R&D team based in London

You will have the opportunity to get involved in a wide variety of projects covering all of the incentives we advise on, take ownership of your own development, actively seeking new projects and making sure you are familiar with the latest HMRC guidance and legislation.

We actively encourage you to be inquisitive, ask questions and get involved in meetings from the outset to make sure you are seeing the practical application in action

What you days will look like:

• Taking a lead role in managing the client relationship which can include managing deadlines, running parts of meetings, handling day to day queries and establishing your role as a trusted contact
• Preparation of formal reports to support the numerical claims for filing with HMRC and Preparation of project technical summaries to illustrate the innovation undertaken by our clients
• Assisting with the review of numerical aspects of claims and application of the rules to claims
• Get involved proactively with business development and looking for opportunities to win work for existing clients of the business and new targets

This role is for you if:

• You have a sound understanding of the R&D regimes and experience in the preparation of both SME and RDEC claims (specifically, reviewing claim workings, contributing to client technical calls, and preparing supporting documentation)
• Strong organisational skills are a must in order to manage working on a number of clients across our portfolio, often with multiple stakeholders both internally and externally
• Strong interpersonal skills are a must to enable you to take a lead role with clients and also liaise effectively with our team and the wider tax team at PwC
• Excel/analytical skills would be beneficial to enable you to understand the numerical aspects of claims and compile these

What you will 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.