Tax Senior Manager or Director - Watford

Key responsibilities

• Define and implement strategies to grow the OMB client base, increasing revenue and profitability across tax advisory and compliance services.
• Act as a lead advisor to OMB clients, providing strategic guidance on business structuring, incorporation, shareholder arrangements, and group reorganisations.
• Advise on profit extraction strategies, including salary, dividends, and other tax-efficient remuneration planning.
• Provide expert guidance on succession planning, including inheritance tax (IHT) planning, trusts, and wealth preservation strategies.
• Support business owners through transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, and management buyouts, ensuring tax-efficient structuring.
• Deliver tax advice on exit planning, including Business Asset Disposal Relief (BADR) and other relevant UK reliefs.
• Oversee the preparation and review of corporation tax returns, personal tax returns, and related filings, ensuring full compliance with UK tax legislation.
• Ensure all work aligns with current guidance from HM Revenue & Customs and relevant statutory requirements.
• Perform final technical reviews of complex tax computations, advisory reports, and planning structures.
• Monitor UK tax legislative changes and proactively advise clients on implications and planning opportunities.
• Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with OMB clients, acting as their primary trusted advisor.
• Identify cross-selling opportunities across accounting, audit, and advisory services to enhance client value.
• Actively contribute to business development, including networking, referrals, and identifying new OMB opportunities.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing tax team, ensuring strong technical capability and client service delivery.
• Set clear performance objectives and ensure accountability across the team.
• Drive efficiency through the use of technology, including compliance with Making Tax Digital requirements.
• Manage a portfolio of OMB clients, with responsibility for generating up to £1M in annual revenue.
• Monitor billing performance, recoverability, and utilisation, taking corrective action where required.
• Ensure robust risk management processes are in place, particularly in relation to tax planning and advisory work.
• Share OMB tax expertise and best practices across the wider Hub and Group.
• Focus on owner-managed businesses, entrepreneurs, and private clients, including SMEs and family-owned businesses.

Benefits

• Company Pension Scheme
• 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
• Additional annual leave days from certain levels of seniority
• Ability to buy up to 5 days of annual leave to reach a maximum of 30 days per annum
• Business closure over Christmas*
• Life Assurance x4 annual salary
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Enhanced Company Sick Pay
• Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 support, free and confidential
• Corporate Discounts Platform

Flexible Benefits platform with ability to opt-in to various insurances (level of seniority dependent & self-funded at corporate rates) such as:
• PMI single or family
• Critical Illness Cover
• Cash plan
• Cycle to work
• Eye care
• Dental
*subject to exceptions and business needs