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London City Airport CFO takes flight to Psion
Accountancy Age THE CFO of London City Airport is making the move to mobile computing company Psion. Adrian Colman joins Psion as chief financial officer in April, replacing Fraser Park, who is taking...
View ArticleNorthbridge appoints former brick man as new FD
Accountancy Age INDUSTRIAL RENTAL company Northbridge has appointed former Michelmersh finance director Craig Robinson as its new full-time FD. Robinson will take on the role from 1 April. He replaces...
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50 grad posts still up for grabs at PwC
Accountancy Age ASSURANCE GRADUATE posts are still up for grabs at PwC. The firm is looking to fill 50 graduate posts in its assurance practice by April 2011. "This year we've expanded vacancies at...
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The price of your loyalty
Accountancy Age HEADHUNTERS HAVE, in the past, been blamed for rising salaries – the argument being that people would not argue so hard on their own behalf and would accept much lower salaries. Now I...
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70% of accountants looking for a new job
Accountancy Age SEVEN out of ten accountants will be looking for a new job this year, with nearly half expecting to leave their current place of employment, according to an Accountancy Age survey. Our...
View ArticlePresident Petroleum appoints new FD
Accountancy Age OIL COMPANY President Petroleum has revealed Ben Wilkinson as its new finance director. The 30-year-old chartered accountant joins the AIM-listed company with immediate effect from...
View ArticleTitanium Research uses Windpower to unearth new CFO
Accountancy Age MINING GROUP Titanium Resources has appointed Joe Connolly as its chief financial officer, effective from 2 March. Connolly joins the company, which operates a mine in Sierra Leone,...
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Working towards diversity
Accountancy Age PWC ANNOUNCED RECENTLY that it wants to set targets to radically increase the number of women and ethnic minorities at partner level within its organisation over the next decade. From...
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From a jack to a king
Accountancy Age WITHIN THE UK, the top performers in finance still provide the largest pool of potential candidates for promotion to MD, highlighting just how important the finance profession has...
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Travelling man
Accountancy Age I'M NOT SAYING that telling your family you are going to move to Mongolia for your career is ever going to be the easiest discussion you will have, but it may be one of the more...
View ArticleNick Willis takes senior partner role at George Hay
Accountancy Age NICK WILLIS has taken the senior partner role at accountancy firm George Hay. Willis succeeds Eddie Fuller, who steps down at the end of the month. Willis joined George Hay in 1977 and...
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Deloitte creates 125 jobs in Belfast
Accountancy Age DELOITTE is to create 125 new jobs in Belfast over the next two years, primarily through the establishment of a software-focused National Solution Centre. Glenn Roberts, senior partner...
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The truth is out there, but so is loads of other stuff
Accountancy Age I WOULD SAY I Google myself about once a month. Now, I’m sure many people who know me would say that’s, er, less than they expected. But I’m not doing it for ego reasons. A lot of...
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Public accounting body strays into recruitment
Accountancy Age PUBLIC ACCOUNTING institute CIPFA is to branch out into recruitment, supplying permanent finance staff at all levels, as well as interim HR professionals. The new business will...
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New CFO recruited at troubled Healthcare Locums
Accountancy Age TROUBLED MEDICAL RECRUITMENT BUSINESS Healthcare Locums has recruited a new CFO. Colin Whipp takes the reins after former CFO Diane Jervis resigned following a suspension. Jervis and...
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Back to school for firms' recruitment plans?
Accountancy Age ONE OF THE biggest challenges that accountancy firms have to deal with is finding the right people. Now, with tuition fees going up (not going to get into whether it's right or wrong...
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Accountancy job growth 'worst in industry'
Accountancy Age ACCOUNTANCY JOBS are growing at the slowest rate of any financial sector, according to new data from eFinancialCareers. Professional services including accounting and finance and...
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School leavers rush to numbercrunching roles
Accountancy Age SO DOOM AND CONFUSION persist. It seems that, three years after the first, we're on the brink of another banking crisis and I for one am worried about my Dad's pension (although he...
View ArticleGovernment-backed accounting apprenticeship launched
Accountancy Age A NEW government-backed accounting apprenticeship scheme has been launched. The Professional Services Higher Apprenticeships Programme will offer a route into tax, audit and management...
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Resign, or re-sign?
Accountancy Age IN THE LAST YEAR, accountants who have been forced to put up with negligible salary growth have found themselves facing an unfamiliar but, on the face of it, very welcome new phenomenon...
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Recruitment and salaries to pick up, say accountants
Accountancy Age MORE THAN HALF of finance professionals expect their companies to hire at the start of 2012. Morgan McKinley's survey of 350 senior accounting and HR professionals found 52% expect...
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Companies take staff counter-offer route
Accountancy Age MORE COMPANIES are providing counter-offers to staff looking to leave, according to Robert Half research. Nearly a quarter of HR executives saw an increase in counter-offers made in the...
View ArticleFDs fear losing key staff
Accountancy Age FINANCE DIRECTORS fear losing their key staff, according to a survey by Robert Half. Two-thirds (66%) of 200 CFOs and FDs surveyed said they fear losing their top performers to other...
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Ex-colleagues most important network for accountants
Accountancy Age FORMER COLLEAGUES are the most important network at accountants' disposal, according to accountancy recruitment specialists Mark Sattin. A poll of 152 accountants carried out by the...
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Boom in accountant hires expected before end of 2013
Accountancy Age THE ACCOUNTANCY PROFESSION is projected to see a frenzy of appointments before the end of the year according to specialist recruitment business. The profession is projected to fill...
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KPMG outs itself as firm that must address diversity imbalance
Accountancy Age KPMG has admitted that the class, gender, ethnic and sexual orientation of it staff does not reflect the make-up of wider British society or its client base. And in order to begin...
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Eight out of 10 accountants expect pay hike in 2015
Accountancy Age AS appraisal season gets underway, nearly eight out of ten (79%) accounting professionals say they are expecting to receive a pay rise this year, a survey has revealed. Confidence...
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PwC receives record number of applications to student programmes
Accountancy Age PWC received its highest ever number of applications this year, as over 41,000 students applied for more than 2,000 graduate, school leaver, paid internships and work placement...
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EY dominates table of best school leaver employers
Accountancy Age EY has been voted the UK's top company for apprenticeships and school leaver programmes, by a survey of young people already employed on such schemes. The Big Four firm emerged...
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PwC launches scheme to tempt professional women back into work
Accountancy Age PwC is hoping to attract parents back into the working world with the launch of its three month ‘Back to Business' programme. While specifically tailored to encourage women back into...
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