Work Anniversaries
September People & Culture Update
Welcome
Reminder: Christmas Shut down days
This is a reminder for everyone to book the 27th-31st December as our Christmas shutdown days on Breathe please.
If you have any queries regarding this, please either speak to your manager or contact HR.
New Joiners
In September we welcomed the following employees to the team:
| First name | Surname | Location | Service Line | Role |
| Mohammed | Isam | Stratford | Tax | Tax Trainee |
| Mark | Philpott | Chelmsford | Accounts | Associate Director |
| Phoebe | Stack | Ipswich | Accounts | Trainee Accountant |
| Harry | Hodgson | Chelmsford | Accounts | Trainee Accountant |
| Justin | James | Stratford | Accounts | Trainee Accountant |
| Sally | Holt | Colchester | Payroll | Payroll Senior |
| Sean | Frisby | Colchester | Business Support – Finance | Credit Control Manager |
| Abigail | Thomas | Chelmsford | Audit | Audit Senior Manager |
| Daniella | Wardley | Ipswich | Accounts | Accounts Manager |
| Amandah | Makoni | Stratford | Tax | Mixed Tax Senior |
| Lilly | Hill | Colchester | Business Support – General | Business Support |
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 |
| Jamie Lynn | Gibbons | Internal Accounts Assistant | Business Support – Finance | Colchester | 15 years |
| Fahmida | Begum | Tax Senior | Tax | Stratford | 9 years |
| Lucas | Carter | Audit and Accounts Senior Manager | Accounts | Colchester | 7 years |
| Ethan | Garcia | Semi Senior Accountant | Accounts | Ipswich | 6 years |
| Mikki-Marie | Durrell | Assistant Manager | Audit | Stratford | 5 years |
| Dan | Witchell | Tax Senior | Tax | Colchester | 5 years |
| Eleanor | Johnson | Assistant Manager | Accounts | Colchester | 5 years |
| Joshua | Jones | Semi Senior Accountant | Accounts | Chelmsford | 4 years |
| Kacper | Pilarski | Senior Accountant | Accounts | Chelmsford | 3 years |
| Dylan | Page-Matthews | Manager | Audit | Ipswich | 3 years |
| Sophie | Page | Business Support | Business Support – General | Ipswich | 3 years |
| Mitchell | Gooderham | Associate Director | Accounts | Ipswich | 2 years |
| Rob | Forbes | Tax Trainee | Tax | Stratford | 2 years |
| Lorraine | Job | Credit Controller | Business Support- Finance | Colchester | 2 years |
| Andrew | Zhou | Trainee Accountant | Accounts | Stratford | 1 year |
| Chloie | Gadia | Tax Trainee | Tax | Stratford | 1 year |
| Nicki | Ramsbottom | Group Head of Marketing | Business Support – Marketing | Ipswich | 1 year |
| Freddie | Scott Yates | Accounts Assistant | Accounts | Ipswich | 1 year |
| Acer | Spurling | Audit Trainee | Audit | Ipswich | 1 year |
| Simon | Whitnall | Mortgage Administrator | Financial Services | Chelmsford | 1 year |
Exams
This month, we celebrated the following exam passes and achieved qualifications!
Christian Parker, Senior Accountant at Ipswich, passed his Strategic Business Management exam!
Megan Hunt, Semi Senior Accountant at Ipswich, passed her Personal Tax exam!
Ashton Croft, Semi Senior Accountant at Ipswich, passed his Personal Tax exam!
George Symonds, Assistant Accounts Manager at Ipswich, passed his Strategic Business Management exam!
Olly Sharman, Assistant Accounts Manager at Ipswich, passed his Corporate Reporting exam!
Fern Webb, Trainee Accountant at Chelmsford, passed her Financial Statements exam!
Freddie Scott Yates, Accounts Assistant at Ipswich, passed his Personal Tax exam!
Ryan Keeble, Trainee Accountant at Ipswich, passed his Management Accountant Techniques exam!
Jess Kelf, Accounts Senior at Colchester, passed her Business and Technology exam!
Max Day, Tax Senior at Chelmsford, passed his Individuals Paper!
Congratulations all! ⭐⭐
Instant Rewards
Cameron Salhotra, Felix Ideh, Matthew Lo, Nathan Byford & Henry Clarke all received an instant reward for their efforts in getting the Colchester office ready for it’s refurb. Well done all!
Kacper Pilarski, received an instant reward for his continued support and dedication to deliver exceptional service to one of our clients, during the accounts preparation process. Well done!
Other news:
We are delighted to share, on the 26th August Emma Bartlett (was Burley) Senior Audit Manager in Colchester married her partner Simon in front of friends and family. ?
‘We had the best day at a beautiful venue in Essex, perfect weather & everything went smoothly. We had delicious food, crazy golf which was great fun and we partied all night long! A day to remember forever’!
Massive congratulations to Emma, Simon (and Alfie the dog of course)!
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
Great update all, what a busy month! 😀 Welcome all to our new colleagues who have joined and massive congratulations to you and your new husband Emma, your pictures are beautiful 🙂
Thank you Chloe!