Business advisory firm KPMG has strengthened its audit, deal advisory and tax services in Manchester after promoting five long-standing members of its team to partner.
Gill Hopwood-Bell has been promoted to audit partner following 17 years in the field. She began her career in KPMG Manchester’s audit practice working with large private and listed audited entities, after gaining experience in transactions and in the mid-tier environment. She motivates a 150 strong audit team in Manchester and has developed significant experience leading listed, retail audits.
Roger Nixon has also become audit partner. He has worked with KPMG since 2003 and spent two years in its Adelaide office in Australia. Roger specialises in listed and regulated audits, supporting retail sector firms in particular.
KPMG’s deal advisory practice has also promoted two colleagues to partner. Joe Manning is promoted to partner in the infrastructure advisor group following nine years with the firm. Joe has 15 years’ experience advising throughout the lifecycle of major government and infrastructure projects and is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor by profession.
Lizzie Meadowcroft becomes partner in KPMG’s Deal Advisory Strategy Group. A former graduate trainee at KPMG, Lizzie now specialises in supporting her clients to drive strategic value through transactions by advising on deal strategy and design. She works with mid-market and private equity-backed businesses and global consumer brand clients.
Meanwhile, the firm’s Manchester tax and legal division has made Phil Roper partner. Phil has more than 20 years of corporate tax advisory experience, including five years working in the pharmaceutical industry and over 10 years with KPMG. Phil assists multinational businesses with setting their transfer pricing policies and resolving tax authority disputes and is the firm’s national lead for quality and technical excellence in relation to KPMG’s transfer pricing engagements.
KPMG occupies a 75,000 square-foot office space at One St Peter’s Square in the heart of the city’s business district and employs more than 1200 staff.
Warren Middleton, Office Senior Partner for KPMG in Manchester, commented: “Our new partners offer over 100 years of collective invaluable experience to our clients. This level of expertise across the services we offer continues to benefit organisations across Greater Manchester and the North West, helping them to navigate a fresh period of uncertainty as volatile market dynamics create both new opportunities and challenges for businesses.”
These Manchester office promotions are in addition to three partner and director promotions in KPMG’s Liverpool office and part of 20 partner and director promotions across the whole of the North.
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