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January HR Update

Welcome

In December and January we welcomed the following employees to the team:

First name Surname Location Service Line Role
Alekhya  Somepalli Stratford Audit Audit Trainee
Andrea Smith Ipswich Business Support – Marketing Digital and Campaign Manager
Satyan  Davdra Stratford Accounts Accounts Manager
Oscar Hammond Ipswich Tax Assistant Manager – Corporate Tax
Drew   Moody Chelmsford Business Support – HR HR Administrator
Jimmy Tung Nguyen Stratford Audit Audit Senior Manager
Sara Stevenson Ipswich Business Support Business Support
Shane Cronin Stratford Tax Tax Senior
If you see them around the business, please join me in welcoming them to LB!

Work Anniversaries

The following work anniversaries were celebrated this month…

First name Surname Job title Service Line Location Length of service
Sarah Beckley Payroll and Business Support Payroll Ipswich 28 years
Paul Mustoe Director Tax Colchester 25 years
Vimlesh Ravalia Senior Accountant Accounts Stratford 25 years
Mark Middleton Director Audit Stratford 20 years
Shaun Roberts Director Audit Chelmsford  6 years
Pete  Sears Operations Manager  Financial Services  Chelmsford  5 years
Ben  Caleno Semi Senior Accountant Accounts Chelmsford 4 years
Neil Wade Audit Manager Audit Chelmsford 3 years
Steven  Diep Senior Accountant Audit Stratford 2 years
Owen  Vernau Semi Senior Accountant Accounts Ipswich 2 years
Abby Salt  Senior Accountant Accounts Colchester 1 year

Birthday Celebrations

This month Ilaria Evangelista, (Semi Senior) celebrated her 30th Birthday! She celebrated with her family in Italy for the first time in 5 years! Ilaria would have loved to give doughnuts to everyone for her birthday, but as she is in Italy, she is sending them virtually! ?

Happy birthday Ilaria! ? We are so glad you enjoyed your day. 

Exams

This month, we celebrated the following exam passes and course completions!

Chloie Gadia, Tax Trainee at Stratford has passed her ACA Assurance exam! 

George Symonds, Assistant Accounts Manager at Ipswich has passed his Corporate Reporting ACA exam! 

Ashton Croft, Trainee Accountant at Ipswich has passed Applied Management Accounting AAT exam! 

Megan Hunt, Trainee Accountant at Ipswich has passed her Applied Management Techniques AAT exam! 

Luke Green, Semi Senior Accountant at Chelmsford has passed his Management Accounting AAT exam! 

Owen Vernau, Semi Senior Accountant at Ipswich has passed his Audit & Assurance ACA exam! 

Olly Sharman, Assistant Manager at Ipswich has passed his ACA Business Planning and Taxation exam, and is now part qualified!

Kacper Pilarski, Semi Senior Accountant at Chelmsford has passed his FAR exam and is now part qualified!

Jakub Niciejewski, Tax Trainee at Chelmsford has passed his ATT paper 1 Personal Taxation & 2 Business Taxation! 

Holly Heslop, Tax Senior at Colchester has passed her CTA Advanced Technical Taxation of Individuals exam! 

Ellie Johnson, Senior Accountant at Colchester has passed her final exam and is now ACCA Qualified! 

Greg Warner, Tax Trainee at Ipswich has passed his CTA Awareness paper! 

Abbie Favaro-Potter, Assistant Manager at Colchester has passed her ATT Personal Taxation exam! 

Ash Thompson, Trainee Accountant at Ipswich has passed his AAT Advanced Diploma Synoptic Assessment and AAT Assistant Accountant Portfolio and Reflective Discussion! 

Jordan Keeble, Audit Senior at Ipswich has passed his ACA Corporate Reporting Paper and ACA Case Paper!

Max Day, Tax Trainee at Chelmsford has passed his CTA Awareness exam! 

Amy Catling, Senior Accountant at Ipswich has passed her Strategic Business Reporting ACCA exam! 

Congratulations to Kain McCoy, Semi Senior accountant at Ipswich, who joined us in November and has this month received confirmation that he is now AAT Level 4 Qualified! Well done Kain! 

If anyone would like to share their exam success, please email HR.

Promotions 

As of February Christian Parker at Ipswich will be promoted from Semi Senior to Senior Accountant as a result of passing his ACA Corporate Reporting Paper!

As of February Charlotte Gray at Ipswich will be promoted from Trainee to Semi Senior Accountant as a result of passing her ACCA Financial Reporting Paper.

Instant Rewards 

In December, Mitchell Gooderham, Senior Manager at Ipswich received an instant reward for his efforts in supporting other staff members in covering deadlines, which meant working additional hours to finish the tasks at hand and going above and beyond in his client work. 

Emma Burley, Senior Audit Manager at Colchester received an instant reward for her hard work on Showcase Interiors back in December. Keep up the good work! 

This month, Fern Webb, Trainee Accountant at Chelmsford received an instant reward for her hard work prior to Christmas on the December filing deadlines, which included chasing clients and submissions. 

Emily Hunter, Senior Accountant at Chelmsford received an instant reward for her commitment and dedication in providing an excellent mentoring service to the trainee’s, well done Emily. 

Danielle Annan, Business Support at Chelmsford received an instant reward for her tenacity in organising the staff car parking arrangements at the Chelmsford office. 

Kacper Pilarski, Semi Senior Accountant at Chelmsford received an instant reward for his efforts to produce a good quality file on the Talk Training audit in January. 

Scott Hadley, Acer Spurling, Matthew Harrison, Becky Barker, Jemma Sullivan, Jordan Keeble, Nathan Thompson, and Mollie Ogden all received an instant award following a new large group audit win for their dedication, professionalism and commitment to ensuring great customer satisfaction. 

Recruitment

If you would like to review what vacancies we currently have available please click here Careers at LB Group – Accountancy and Tax Jobs with Us. | LB Group (lbgroupltd.com) and perhaps you could be in with a chance of earning some extra money by referring a suitable candidate! Likewise, if you would like to apply for any roles advertised, please let HR know.

 

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Paul Mustoe
1 year ago

Some great successes there, well done all!

Paul (25 years and counting…) 🙂

Matthew Selfe
1 year ago

Congrats all and welcome to all our new starters!

Chloe McCann
1 year ago

Great read for the latest update, well done to you all and welcome to the team guys for those who have recently joined!

Daniel Farrow
1 year ago

Huge congrats to all, this is excellent news and a warm welcome to all new starters!