APPOINTED
New adviser at Cool Ventures
Business growth consultancy Cool Ventures has appointed experienced former Wiltshire bank manager Barry Vincent.
Barry joins Cool Ventures as an adviser and he will offer expert advice to businesses enrolled on the Swindon and Wiltshire SME Growth Programme.
Cool Ventures is one of the local delivery partners for the programme which provides free intensive support to small and medium-sized businesses across Swindon and Wiltshire. Businesses benefit from one-to-one coaching from specialist advisers and access to workshops on key topics including business planning, finance, marketing and management.( Read page 4 for more information).
Barry is a former commercial relationship manager at Lloyds Bank in North Wiltshire where he specialised in helping struggling businesses to sort out their finances. He was previously a trainer with Learndirect where he advised a range of private and public sector organisations, coaching their employees on BTEC Apprenticeship programmes in customer service, team leading and management. Barry also ran his own Chippenhambased consultancy, Business Advice North Wiltshire, for a number of years, advising clients on their business plans and acting as their financial manager.
Roger Wilkins, director at Cool Ventures, said:“ We are delighted that Barry will be helping us to deliver the SME Growth Programme locally. His extensive experience advising organisations and background in banking will be invaluable to the many growing businesses that we support.”
Barry Vincent
MHA MONAHANS APPOINTS SINEAD O’ CONNOR
The recently rebranded MHA Monahans has employed Sinead O’ Connor as business development manager in a new role to bolster the Chartered Accountancy firm’ s marketing team. With an expansion of approximately 40 % over the past two years, MHA Monahans has seen its reach grow further into the South West with acquisitions across Bath, Wiltshire and Somerset.
Sinead joins MHA Monahans from Watts, a property and construction consultancy, where she was marketing manager responsible for supporting the growth of the business through developing and implementing their nationwide marketing strategy and overseeing a brand refresh.
In her new role, she will be focusing on business development and strategically adding direction and focus for each of MHA Monahans’ eight offices’ internal business development teams.
Sinead said:“ This is an exciting new direction, new challenge and new industry for me, although I have
Jonathan Webb, Hannah Sagan, Robert Staines and Andrew Rowe have all started work at the firm’ s new offices in Hermes House on Fire Fly Avenue.
They are among 288 new graduates and school leavers being taken on by the firm this year, bringing RSM’ s total headcount to over 3,600 people across the UK.
The new starters will begin their careers within the firm’ s tax and financial reporting teams.
After completing an intensive internal training course, the new recruits will commence study towards their professional ACA, ATT, or CTA qualifications.
Sharon Omer-Kaye, RSM’ s office managing partner in Swindon, said:“ I am delighted to welcome all of our new recruits to RSM in Swindon.
“ Our future growth ambitions in the region rely on attracting and developing new talent across all areas of worked within professional services for a number of years.
“ I was impressed by the ambitious nature of MHA Monahans, yet they retained a true family feel and ethos. As a business, they have clear direction and strong vision, and are investing to secure this future, while not losing sight of where they came from and the clients they support. There are already a lot of good things happening and excellent people here that I’ m very pleased to join.”
Simon Tombs managing partner added:“ Through our partnership with the MHA we have excellent national and international reach and specialisms, which have proved to be very beneficial to our clients here in the South West. Sinead’ s experience will be invaluable to continuing to drive our business development teams forward and securing MHA Monahans’ position as a leading regional firm.”
Recruitment drive for RSM Swindon
Leading audit, tax and consulting firm RSM has announced the appointment of four new trainees in its Swindon office and currently has further trainee vacancies in corporate tax and private client tax.
our business. That these graduates and school leavers have chosen to begin their careers with us is, I hope, a reflection of the training support and the career opportunities that we can offer as a firm.”
RSM offers trainees a range of career opportunities from technical development and overseas secondments to participation in key corporate and social responsibility activity, including taking on the Duke of Edinburgh Gold award. For more information about careers at RSM visit: www. rsmuk. com / careers / vacancies
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