Move leads to growth for Mazars

ACCOUNTANTS and business advisers Mazars says its move into Birmingham city centre has been a catalyst for new business, forcing it to recruit an extra 22 staff since September.

The hiring spree represents a 15 per cent increase in total staff since moving the headquarters of its Midland operation into Church Street.

Midland managing partner David Chapman said the recruitment had been across all divisions and had been driven by new business wins and Mazars’ international reach.

“Since moving into the centre of Birmingham, we have won new business from bluechip clients such as Pertemps and Aviva, and the team here already works for an expanding list of international and quoted clients including Alstom UK, Manganese Bronze Holdings, Portmeirion Group, Schneider Electric, GeoPost and Arval. We know Tata well in India and we are continuing to work for Jaguar Land Rover in the Midlands,” he said.

The need to recruit was driven not only by the need to service new clients but also an increasing volume of work in specialist areas such as forensics, corporate finance and governance and internal risk control.

“Mazars is winning new business because clients recognise that we are a genuinely integrated international practice, rather than a network of allied firms or separate partnerships in different countries,” he added.

In the UK, Mazars is the ninth largest partnership in terms of audit fee income and employs over 1100 people, including more than 100 partners, in 15 offices throughout the country.