Work Anniversaries
August People & Culture Update
Welcome
In August we welcomed the following employees to the team:
| First name | Surname | Location | Service Line | Role |
| Abhay | Patel | Colchester | Audit | Audit Trainee |
| Sarah | Anthony | Colchester | Audit | Audit Trainee |
| Susan | Elsdon | Colchester | Payroll | Payroll Director |
| Rachel | Chubb | Colchester | Accounts | Trainee Accountant |
| Lewis | Brooks | Ipswich | Business Support – Finance | Credit Controller |
| Thomas | Aitchison | Ipswich | Tax | Tax Assistant Manager |
| Lewis | Riley | Chelmsford | Audit | Audit Semi Senior |
| Prashant | Tahiliani | Stratford | Tax | Mixed Tax Senior |
| Freddie | Mills | Stratford | Corporate Finance | Corporate Finance Manager |
| Halima | Choudhury | Stratford | Business Support – General | Executive Assistant |
| Simon | Nice | Stratford | Business Support – Finance | Consultant – Finance |
If you see them around the business, please join us in welcoming them to LB!
The following work anniversaries were celebrated this month…
| First name | Surname | Job title | Service Line | Location | Length of service |
| Tanya | Johnson | Group Business Support Manager | Business Support – General | Ipswich | 30 years |
| Michele | Fitzgerald | Business Support | Business Support – General | Stratford | 17 years |
| Abigail | Favaro-Potter | Tax Assistant Manager | Tax | Colchester | 16 years |
| Maxine | Pyrozuk | Business Support | Business Support – General | Ipswich | 13 years |
| George | Symonds | Accounts Assistant Manager | Accounts | Ipswich | 8 years |
| Michael | Warman | Director | Audit | Chelmsford | 7 years |
| Calvin | Footer | Accounts Assistant Manager | Accounts | Ipswich | 7 years |
| Lauren | Mallett | Senior Accountant | Accounts | Colchester | 7 years |
| Harry | Ward | Semi Senior Accountant | Accounts | Chelmsford | 5 years |
| Christian | Parker | Senior Accountant | Accounts | Ipswich | 3 years |
| Matthew | Harrison | Semi Senior Accountant | Accounts | Colchester | 3 years |
| Mollie | Ogden | Semi Senior Accountant | Accounts | Colchester | 3 years |
| Jemma | Sullivan | Trainee Accountant | Accounts | Colchester | 2 years |
| Ash | Thompson | Trainee Accountant | Accounts | Ipswich | 2 years |
| Megan | Hunt | Semi Senior Accountant | Accounts | Ipswich | 2 years |
| Nathan | Thomspon | Audit Trainee | Audit | Colchester | 2 years |
| Fern | Webb | Trainee Accountant | Accounts | Chelmsford | 2 years |
| Erika | Sutkute | Business Support | Business Support – General | Colchester | 2 years |
| Chloe | Leatherdale | Trainee Accountant | Accounts | Colchester | 1 year |
| Jenson | Bradshaw | Trainee Accountant | Accounts | Ipswich | 1 year |
| Luke | Wiseman | Senior Manager | Accounts | Ipswich | 1 year |
| Ryan | Keeble | Trainee Accountant | Accounts | Ipswich | 1 year |
| Emma | Reinecke | Senior Accountant | Audit | South Africa | 1 year |
| Liezel | Van der Berg | Executive Assistant | Business Support – General | South Africa | 1 year |
Exams
This month, we celebrated the following exam passes and achieved qualifications!
Fern Webb, Trainee Accountant at Chelmsford, passed her Management accounting exam!
Ash Thompson, Trainee Accountant at Ipswich, passed his Personal Tax exam!
Josh Jones, Semi Senior Accountant at Chelmsford, passed his Personal Tax exam!
Kirin Yeung, Trainee Accountant at Colchester, passed his Law exam!
Kacper Pilarski, Semi Senior Accountant at Chelmsford, passed his Corporate Reporting exam!
Jakub Niciejewski, Tax Trainee at Chelmsford, passed his final exam and is now ATT Qualified!
Scott Hadley, Audit Senior at Colchester, passed his final exam and is now ACA Qualified!
Josh Wilby, Trainee Accountant at Colchester, passed his Principles of Taxation exam!
Gabriella Exley, Trainee Accountant at Stratford, passed her Management accounting exam!
Recruitment & Employee Referral Bonus
If you would like to review what vacancies we currently have available please click here Job Vacancies Archive – Accountants Essex, London, Suffolk | LB Group (lbgroupltd.com).
Please keep in mind that we offer a referral bonus scheme, which will reward you according to the entry level of the hire:
| Onboarding | After Probation | Total Reward | |
| Trainee / Entry Level | £ 250.00 | £ 250.00 | £ 500.00 |
| Part Qualified | £ 750.00 | £ 750.00 | £ 1,500.00 |
| Qualified / Senior | £ 1,000.00 | £ 1,000.00 | £ 2,000.00 |
| Assistant Manager | £ 1,250.00 | £ 1,250.00 | £ 2,500.00 |
| Manager | £ 1,500.00 | £ 1,500.00 | £ 3,000.00 |
| Senior Manager | £ 1,750.00 | £ 1,750.00 | £ 3,500.00 |
The reward will be split into two payments; 50% when the employee starts with us and 50% when they have successfully completed their probation period. Rewards are subject to the normal tax and NIC deductions.
Please do remember to make internal.hr@lbgroupltd.com aware of the referral so we can track the application, keep you updated of their progress and more importantly ensure you receive your reward should they be successful.
Company Documents
Please be reminded that company documents are available to you in the company document section on Breathe. You can find the company organisation chart, employee handbook and more. If you are unsure how to access this or want to know more, please email Internal HR and we will be happy to help.
If you have anything you would like to share and be included in the next HR update post, please email Internal HR and we would be happy to feature it
Congratulations everyone!