Business Advisory Manager

Wbg is where ambitious careers are built to last. We’re a growing firm where your name is known, your development is taken seriously, and the work you do from day one makes a real difference and is genuinely valued by clients and colleagues alike. Combining deep expertise with insight-led, technology- enabled solutions, we work together to help our clients achieve stronger outcomes.

Our culture is straightforward. We’re open in how we communicate, supportive in how we work together and ambitious in what we’re building. Grounded, consistent, and focused on doing things well. It’s a place where standards are high, but so is the level of support around you.

JOB SPECIFICATION

Department:
Business Advisory Services (BAS)

Job Title:

Business Advisory Senior Manager / Business Advisory Manager

About us

Wbg is where ambitious careers are built to last. We’re a growing firm where your name is known, your development is taken seriously, and the work you do from day one makes a real difference and is genuinely valued by clients and colleagues alike. Combining deep expertise with insight-led, technology- enabled solutions, we work together to help our clients achieve stronger outcomes.

Our culture is straightforward. We’re open in how we communicate, supportive in how we work together and ambitious in what we’re building. Grounded, consistent, and focused on doing things well. It’s a place where standards are high, but so is the level of support around you.

About our Business Advisory team

Wbg’s Business Advisory team provides a consistent rhythm of financial insight, commercial challenge, and forward-looking guidance – giving business owners and leadership teams the clarity they need to make better decisions, faster. We’re not an annual touchpoint, but an embedded commercial presence in the decisions that matter.

The operating model within our Business Advisory Services team is centred on a structure of dedicated client pods. Each pod has primary responsibility for a dedicated portfolio of clients, giving clients clear and consistent points of contact who understand their business, priorities, and ambitions. This structure enables the team to build deeper knowledge of each client over time, provide more proactive and commercially focused support, and work alongside clients as their businesses grow and evolve.

JOB DESCRIPTION – Business Advisory Manager

Role Purpose

The Pod Lead is responsible for leading a portfolio of clients within Business Advisory Services, acting as the primary relationship owner and trusted adviser while ensuring high-quality, consistent and commercially focused delivery across the pod. The role combines client relationship leadership, operational discipline, team development and insight-led advisory support to help clients make better decisions and achieve stronger outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Client Leadership and Commercial Ownership

• Lead a portfolio of clients, acting as the primary relationship owner and trusted adviser.
• Build strong, long-term client relationships through proactive communication and commercially focused conversations.
• Understand client businesses, goals, challenges and future ambitions to deliver meaningful insight and support.
• Anticipate client needs and identify opportunities across the wider firm where additional services or specialist support may add value.
• Focus on delivering positive client outcomes while balancing strong service with commercial awareness.
• Ensure client engagements are delivered efficiently, profitably and to a consistently high standard.
• Measure success not only through delivery, but through the strength, depth and value of client relationships.

Quality, Consistency and Operational Discipline

• Drive high standards of technical quality,…