Appointments: Deloitte; Baker Tilly; Grant Thornton
BUSINESS advisory firm Deloitte has boosted its pensions practice in Yorkshire with the appointment of one of the region’s most experienced corporate pensions advisors.
Richard Jarvis has joined Deloitte as a director in its Total Reward and Benefits team. He was previously a pensions director at PwC in Leeds.
He was at PwC for 11 years, the last three as a director in Leeds in its specialist corporate pensions advisory team. Prior to that he spent six years at Towers Perrin.
At Deloitte, Jarvis will provide strategic pensions advice to companies with, and trustees of, defined benefit pension schemes across Yorkshire, Humberside and the North East.
“We’re going through a significant period of change for the occupational pensions market, so I’m looking forward to advising Deloitte’s clients in the region on the implications and opportunities of those changes in terms of their benefits strategies,” he said.
Tony Clare, lead partner Deloitte Total Reward & Benefits in Yorkshire and the North East, added: “Richard is a great addition to our senior team in Leeds. His wide-ranging experience advising quoted and privately-owned businesses on the design and management of corporate pension schemes will be of huge benefit to our clients in the region.”
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RICHARD Leach has been promoted to director in Baker Tilly’s restructuring and recovery division.
Leach qualified as an accountant in 2003 and has worked within restructuring since 2006.
He provides advice to corporate clients and lending institutions in relation to working capital requirements, borrowing facilities, financial performance and lenders risk exposure.
He also provides advice in relation to Pension Scheme deficits representing Baker Tilly’s Covenant Assessment Services team in the Yorkshire and North East region.
Leach will continue to support corporate clients and work closely with lenders, intermediaries and other stakeholders utilising his extensive experience of reviewing businesses of all sizes from SME to FTSE 100.
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BUSINESS adviser Grant Thornton in Sheffield has expanded its special projects team with the appointments of Lesley White, Emily Coy and James Taylor.
White and Coy join as executives in the eight-strong team which offers clients the option of appointing one of its experienced accountants in a ‘hands on’ interim role, or undertaking a particular accounting related project if the company lacks the necessary skills or resource in house on an ad hoc or long term basis.
Taylor joins as a transaction and project executive and will be undertaking transactional reporting work as well as special projects assignments.
These latest hires follow the appointment of Eimear Considine in March who joined as project and client relationship manager. In addition, another member of the team, Andrew Sneddon was promoted to assistant manager in April.
