Career moves: KPMG, Crowe Clark Whitehill, M&S, CIMA

Reporter, Accountancy Daily [2010-2021]

21 Nov 2014

M&S poaches John Lewis chief financial officer and Crowe Clark Whitehill strengthens pensions team, KPMG ramps up talent team and Moore Stephens hires three new partners

Helen Weir has been named as the new finance director at M&S, following Alan Stewart’s departure to Tesco. Weir has been the finance director at the John Lewis Partnership Waitrose since 2012, and has also been finance director of Lloyds Banking Group and Kingfisher.

Crowe Clark Whitehill has hired Phil Spary as a director to spearhead the firm’s advice to those responsible for running defined contribution (DC) workplace pensions schemes. Spary joins from the Pensions Regulator, where he focussed on the DC sector, and has over 15 years’ experience in pensions assurance advisory services and pensions.

Commercial law firm Howes Percival has expanded its litigation team with the appointment of insolvency specialist Carl Mifflin as a partner. Mifflin joins from Shakespeares in Nottingham and has experience in all aspects of corporate and personal insolvency.

Akhlaq Ahmed, who spent 10 years at EY, has joined KPMG’s forensic team as a director leading its team of forensic experts in Reading and Bristol.

Moore Stephens has hired added three tax professionals with experience of working in Big Four and large accountancy firms as new partners in its London office. Timothy Fussell becomes head of the firm’s business tax group, while Kevin Phillips has particular experience in cross-border tax issues, especially UK-US, and Vincent Wood has advised domestic and international business clients across a range of sectors.

Paul McConnell has joined the business recovery team at Monahans as an insolvency practitioner, tasked with extending the team’s expertise across the Midlands and North Gloucestershire.

Dow Schofield Watts has appointed Phil King to its corporate finance team, based in the Yorkshire and North East office. King was previously at Deloitte in Leeds and latterly in the Cayman Islands where he held a senior position in Deloitte’s financial advisory services team

KPMG has appointed three directors to its People Powered Performance (P3) practice. Simon Morris, who joins from Thomsons Online Benefits, has more than 14 years’ experience in workforce planning and analytics, HR and people technologies. Ingrid Waterfield has been with KPMG for 15 years, both in client facing roles and as part of KPMG’s HR leadership team. Jonathan Green, who has spent ten years at the firm, specialises in workforce analytics.

Tony Manwaring, the chief executive of global think tank Tomorrow’s Company, is to take up a new role as CIMA’s executive director, external affairs. CIMA and Tomorrow’s Company have a long standing relationship and have been working in partnership on a number of projects in areas such as corporate governance and integrated reporting.

Family-run firm Studholme-Bell has appointed Richard Barnes as a director. Barnes, who has almost 17 years’ experience in the industry, joined the practice in December 2012 and is now charged with helping ensure future growth and development.

LAVAT Consulting has appointed Nick Burrows, a public sector specialist, as VAT director. Burrows joins from KPMG, where he led nationally on VAT support for police and in the south for local authorities.

Alan Beller and Werner Brandt have been appointed as trustees of the IFRS Foundation. Beller has served as director of the division of corporation finance of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and as senior counsellor to the SEC, and is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Brandt is a former member of the board and CFO of SAP. He is the chairman of the board of the German financial reporting enforcement pane and a former member of the board of the accounting standards committee of Germany.