Manager Tax Share Plans Reading

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.

Responsibilities

As a Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to

• Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Senior Managers and above
• Be involved in the financial management of clients
• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients
• Contribute to the development of your own and team's technical acumen
• Develop strategies to solve complex technical challenges
• Assist in the management and delivering of large projects
• Train, coach, and supervise staff
• Keep up to date with local and national business and economic issues
• Continue to develop internal relationships and your PwC brand

About the team

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Reward/Share Plans Senior Manager to join PwC’s Reward Tax team in the South East. The team sits within PwC's rapidly growing Reward & Employment practice and a new position has been created for a reward/share plans senior manager to join our team in PwC’s Uxbridge or Reading Office.
We provide consulting services, technical advice and analysis on all aspects of incentive plan design, implementation, tax compliance and reporting.

Our clients range from private start-ups to fast-growth companies heading towards an IPO/exit, from AIM and mid-cap to UK subsidiaries of overseas parented organisations. PwC is a technology enabled business and we are leveraging technology solutions in a number of new and innovative ways to deliver reward services efficiently for our clients.

The successful candidate will be required to work as part of a regional and multi-disciplined team, advising a broad range of clients on all aspects of their pay design and the tax and national insurance treatment of cash or share based incentives. The candidate will also have an interest in technology and an awareness of the way in which data and digital solutions are shaping the market.

About the role

In this role you’ll

• Work collaboratively within a team.

• Manage a portfolio of clients across a range of sectors.

• Draft technically complex advice and supervise the work of junior staff (managing their personal and technical development, undertaking research and analysis of tax cases, reviewing legislative matters and responding to HMRC consultations).

• Research and articulate changes in remuneration and share plan regulations and best practice.

• Develop a personal network of contacts internally and externally and actively promote the PwC brand through social media and external networking events.

• Actively target and evaluate opportunities for developing new client opportunities and services. Support client proposal activities.
  

Essential skills and experience

• ACA / CA / Tax Inspectors with full Technical Training / Law qualification / CTA (or breadth of knowledge equivalent to CTA)

• Extensive share plan implementation, PAYE/NIC experience

• Strong organisational and interpersonal skills.

• A commitment to delivering great client service.

• Good communication skills, written and oral.

• Strong project management skills and the ability to prioritise tasks.

• Ability to work flexibly as part of a regional team and through virtual networks.

• Able to apply good judgement, consult appropriately and manage risks.

• Is resilient, able to work to deadlines and will encourage and motivate junior staff.

• Strong analytical skills in terms of understanding the interaction of processes, technologies and people.

• An interest in technology and the benefits that it can bring in terms of efficiency, control and informational capabilities.
  

Who we’re looking for

We’re looking for someone who is

• Is resilient, able to work to deadlines and will encourage and motivate junior staff.

• Strong analytical skills in terms of understanding the interaction of processes, technologies and people.

• An interest in technology and the benefits that it can bring in terms of efficiency, control and informational capabilities.

Tax

We help organisations and the people who run them answer the big business questions. How should we raise finance? Where should we be based? How should we reward our people? With some 3,300 experts whose expertise covers every conceivable area of taxation, we’re one of the UK’s leading tax practices.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

Learn more here www.pwc.com/uk/diversity