Financial appointments: Triple promotion at PWC, Deloitte appoints and more
A round-up of the region’s financial appointments.
ACCOUNTANCY firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has announced that Joanna King, Andy Ward and Lyn Vardy have been promoted to director.
Ms King will lead the firm’s provision of transaction services in the South Yorkshire market place, providing a range of due diligence services and pre and post deal support together with deal planning and structuring advice to both acquirers and vendors.
She has been with PricewaterhouseCoopers for ten years.
Lyn Vardy will head up the business recovery services practice in South Yorkshire and has 16 years experience in corporate recovery and insolvency.
Since joining PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1998, he has been involved in a broad range of assignments, advising lenders in turnaround, new lending and debt recovery situations.
Andy Ward is part of the assurance team in Sheffield and has responsibility for a number of audits of UK listed and large private equity businesses as well as owner managed companies in the region.
He has a specialism in construction and metals as well as experience due diligence and financial assistance for transactions.
He has a particular focus on owner managed businesses in South Yorkshire.
Phil Gregory, senior partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Sheffield, said: “Joanna, Lyn and Andy are talented individuals and will play vital roles in helping our clients achieve success in an increasingly difficult economic climate. They will in turn contribute to the further growth of our business in South Yorkshire and signal a significant investment in our office here in Sheffield. “
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ANDREW Winters, partner at business advisory firm Deloitte, has returned to Leeds to head up the firm’s technology risk practice.
Mr Winters spent 11 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers before joining Deloitte last year as a partner in its technology risk practice in the Midlands.
He will work alongside Michael Cullen, partner, who leads Deloitte’s national data management practice.
Mr Winters said: “My aim is to work closely with businesses in the region to help them effectively manage the multitude of technology challenges that they face. The continued demand for our specialist security and technology risk skills has resulted in our UK team growing to more than 500 and we have an on-going expansion programme to bring on board top talent from our competitor firms and from within industry.”
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THE Royal Bank of Scotland has strengthened its Yorkshire Corporate Banking team with two new appointments.
Mark Burton has been appointed as the head of the large corporate team and David Clarke has been appointed as a relationship director within the large corporate team.
In his new role, Mr Burton will lead a 14 strong team across Yorkshire that is responsible for providing financial solutions to new and existing customers typically turning over in excess of £50m per annum.
He has extensive knowledge of the corporate banking market having worked within the corporate arena for over 10 years with customers across a variety of sectors.
Mr Burton joins from the North East RBS corporate team where he was director of the debt finance and origination team responsible for driving out business development opportunities for the bank from in and around the North East and Cumbria.
Mr Clarke joins from the bank’s global transactional services team where he was an associate director working alongside the corporate team to provide dedicated support to businesses in Yorkshire that trade or wish to trade overseas. In his new role he will be based at the Whitehall Quay Leeds office.
He has more than 25 years banking experience gained at the National Australia Group for 11 years, Standard Chartered for 17 years, Yorkshire Bank and nabCaptial in roles based in either Scotland or the North of England.
