Senior Manager Share Plan & Deals Manager Bristol

The Opportunity

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a manager or senior manager with share plan and deals experience (especially in the private business and PE backed markets) to join our team in the South West & Wales (based in the Bristol office).

We provide consulting services, technical advice and analysis on all aspects of incentive plan design, implementation, deals advice and reporting. Our clients include private start-ups, fast-growth companies heading towards an IPO/exit, AIM and mid-cap, family-owned and private equity/venture capital backed organisations. 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.

Our team will provide you with the opportunity to put into practice your tax technical skills in a stimulating and challenging environment. You will also play a key role in the People & Organisations network and you will lead and participate in regular network events with technical updates and training opportunities.

We believe that PwC has the strongest and most highly-integrated group in this area of services in the market and this breadth of capability provides unparalleled access to a high quality client base that will support fantastic personal and career growth for the successful candidate.

The Role

As a senior 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:

• Being self-reliant and confident in dealing with fast moving events and developing strategies to solve complex technical challenges
• Managing and delivering projects and having an appreciation of risks involved to plan ahead, prioritise and document decisions, involving senior staff as appropriate
• Using your tax knowledge, ideally from a personal tax perspective so that capital taxes/SATR aspects are considered and appreciated
• Working collaboratively within and managing a team and contributing to the development of your own and the team's technical, financial and commercial acumen
• Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients
• Drafting technically complex advice and supervise the work of junior staff (managing their personal and technical development, undertaking research and analysis)
• Developing a personal network of contacts internally and externally and actively promote the PwC brand through social media and external networking events
• Actively targeting and evaluating opportunities for developing new client opportunities and services and supporting client proposal activities
• You will be responsible for building close relationships with a wide range of clients, working both independently and in a team. You will benefit from a progressive environment and will be encouraged to develop client relationships, technical and people management skills.

The work is technically stimulating, rarely routine and offers opportunities to help solve our clients' tax and business issues of companies. The work is wide-ranging and you will have the opportunity to work with Senior Managers, Directors and Partners.

The team will provide you with the opportunity to put into practice your tax technical skills in a stimulating and challenging environment. Client teams range in size based on the client and nature of the work. You will have a Career Coach who will manage your performance, well-being and development.

You will be able to progress your career in the Firm through gaining wide-ranging experience across industries and locations. Being a global organisation we are able to offer staff the opportunity to go on secondments and there are further options to develop technically and professionally through varied client assignments and secondments

The Skills and Attributes

The following skills and experience are required for this role:

• UK professional qualification (CTA, ACA or legal qualification with tax experience) or overseas equivalent
• Extensive share plan/deals experience
• Strong organisational and interpersonal skill
• 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 in a regional team and through virtual networks
• Able to apply good judgement, consult appropriately and manage risks
• Resilient, able to work to deadlines
• Encouraging and motivational to 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
• 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 as we are a technology enabled business and are leveraging technology solutions in a number of new and innovative ways to deliver services efficiently for our clients.

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.

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.