OMB Tax Director

Azets | Shropshire, North Wales & North West

Azets is seeking an accomplished OMB Tax Director to provide strategic leadership across a diverse client portfolio, delivering expert tax advice, ensuring compliance with UK tax regulations, and supporting the continued growth of the firm across Shropshire, North Wales, and into the North West.

This is a senior leadership opportunity for a commercially minded tax professional who combines technical excellence with strong relationship management, team leadership, and business development capability.

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About the Opportunity

As OMB Tax Director, you will lead on complex tax matters for owner-managed business clients, guiding them through compliance, planning, and strategic decision-making. You will play a central role in strengthening client relationships, driving service excellence, identifying growth opportunities, and enhancing Azets’ reputation in the regional market.

You will also act as a mentor and leader within the team, supporting senior colleagues, encouraging high performance, and helping shape the future direction of the tax offering.

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Key Responsibilities

Client Leadership & Relationship Management

• Lead and grow relationships across a portfolio of Azets clients

• Build and strengthen connections with key strategic clients

• Identify client needs both now and in the future, offering solutions that add long-term value

• Deliver outstanding service and maintain high levels of client satisfaction, measured against relevant KPIs

• Lead cross-service line delivery for multi-office client portfolios

• Influence clients strategically using a variety of approaches to support successful outcomes

• Make decisions with a focus on long-term relationship value

Strategic Tax Advice & Technical Expertise

• Act as a recognised technical expert in tax

• Oversee tax assignments, including complex and large-scale engagements, with limited partner support

• Provide strategic tax planning advice while ensuring full compliance with UK tax regulations

• Anticipate tax risks and issues early, taking timely and effective action

• Work seamlessly with tax specialists and colleagues across other service lines to deliver a joined-up client experience

• Maintain a broad understanding of technical areas outside your immediate specialism and identify opportunities for cross-referral

• Stay ahead of regulatory, legislative, and market developments across tax and the wider firm

Quality, Risk & Operational Excellence

• Ensure the team consistently delivers accurate, high-quality work

• Promote standards that go beyond minimum compliance expectations

• Track, review, and act on quality issues

• Support and contribute to the development of Azets’ quality monitoring processes

• Encourage continuous improvement and the elimination of errors

• Support appropriate training, resource planning, talent planning, and software planning to meet current and future technical demands

• Promote quality controls across the tax department at a regional level

Team Leadership & People Development

• Lead with clarity, integrity, and professionalism

• Create a positive, collaborative environment that supports wellbeing and team morale

• Build a culture of trust, openness, and accountability

• Empower others through effective delegation and clear communication

• Support the development and career progression of the wider team

• Work with managers to identify and develop high performers

• Support managers in addressing underperformance and inefficiencies where needed

• Assist tax partners with recruitment, team growth, and resource forecasting

• Mentor senior team members and contribute to the development of future leaders

Business Development & Growth

• Expand and strengthen your internal and external network

• Generate new work for your team and for Azets more broadly

• Grow and develop your client portfolio, with clear evidence of fee growth and successful service expansion

• Identify opportunities to introduce new services to existing clients

• Evaluate the effectiveness of business development activity and refine approaches where needed

• Clearly articulate the value proposition of Azets’ tax services

• Prepare and present tax tender documents, demonstrating clear client advantages

• Support local offices in developing and implementing client tax strategies

• Use influence effectively, including bringing in technical specialists to support opportunities and add credibility

Innovation, Efficiency & Decision-Making

• Lead digital transformation initiatives and embed new approaches within your team

• Use market trends, organisational data, and commercial insight to identify efficiencies and improvement opportunities

• Balance conflicting priorities effectively and make sound, flexible decisions using live data

• Present clear decision options to stakeholders, outlining risks and benefits

• Review and adapt previous decisions where performance data indicates a change is needed

• Ensure time is used effectively, including keeping meetings focused with clear outcomes

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What You Will Bring

Professional Capability

• Strong experience leading tax engagements within an accountancy practice

• Confidence managing complex assignments and acting as a key client relationship lead

• Excellent project management and coordination skills

• Ability to provide commercially focused advice while maintaining high technical standards

• Strong awareness of fee setting, fee growth, and the commercial realities of client work

Leadership Style

• A collaborative and authentic leadership approach

• The confidence to challenge constructively and voice opinions, even when they differ from the status quo

• Resilience under pressure, with the self-awareness to seek support when needed

• A commitment to continuous personal and professional development

• The ability to lead others through change, complexity, and growth

Values & Culture

• Champion the Azets brand, reputation, values, and service offering

• Promote a consistent and unified approach across the business

• Lead by example in professional and ethical behaviour

• Support a culture where colleagues are encouraged to uphold shared standards and values

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Technical & Departmental Contribution

• Act as engagement lead on most tax assignments, including larger and more complex projects

• Contribute to departmental strategy and planning, taking ownership of a defined area such as people, finance, or operations

• Support innovation and technological advancement within the tax team

• Identify cross-selling opportunities across existing and prospective clients

• Promote joined-up working across service lines to enhance the client experience

• Help shape the future capability of the department through training, planning, and talent retention

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Qualifications

• Accountancy and/or tax qualification required, or qualified by experience
  Examples include:

• ATT

• CTA

• ACA

• ACCA

• CA

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Essential Experience

• Proven experience developing the required technical and leadership capabilities through:

• Professional study, and

• Hands-on experience within an accountancy practice

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Why Join Azets?

This is an opportunity to take on a visible and influential leadership role within a growing and ambitious firm. You will have the platform to shape client outcomes, support the development of talented colleagues, drive commercial growth, and play a key role in strengthening Azets’ presence across the region.

If you are a strategic tax leader with a passion for client service, people development, and business growth, this role offers the scope to make a genuine impact.

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If you are ready to take the next step in your tax leadership career, we would love to hear from you.