Azets, the regional accountancy firm and business advisor to SMEs, has made two appointments and three promotions in the Midlands region.
Neil Belton has been appointed as a director within the Technology Risk team. Neil has over 30 years of IT Internal Audit/Assurance and Advisory experience across a large variety of industries spanning both public and private sector. His expertise includes but isn’t limited to IT governance, digital/IT strategy, IT transformation projects, as well as cyber, network and data security, disaster recovery and software licensing. Neil has been a Qualified CISA Auditor in Computer Audit for more than 15 years.
Andrew Bateman has been promoted to partner. Andrew is an FCCA qualified accountant with over 25 years’ experience in the accountancy industry. He has a broad background of experience from general accountancy, business advisory, taxation and audit. As a partner in the Accounting and Business Advisory team, Andrew works with a wide variety of clients ranging from sole traders, owner managed businesses to medium sized business in various sectors.
Chan Landa has worked at Azets Coventry for over seven years and has been promoted to associate director. As an ACCA qualified accountant, Chan has vast experience advising SME’s and OMB’s throughout his time at Azets and primarily focuses on growing businesses, to look for solutions to their accounting and taxation needs. He specialises in industries including retail, hospitality, construction and manufacturing.
Having joined Azets in January 2022, Ben Fahy has been promoted to senior manager. Ben is an ACCA qualified accountant with over 5 years’ experience in the accountancy industry.
He has a broad background of experience from management consultancy and corporate audit, through to general accountancy and tax advisory. As a senior manager in the Accounting and Business Advisory team, Ben works with a wide variety of clients and industries, ranging from sole traders to members of international group companies.
Ben is a keen advocate of cloud accounting software, in particular Xero.
On the promotions, Paul Clifford, regional CEO of Azets, said: “It’s an exciting time for us as we continue to support our teams to match business demand. These promotions are incredibly well deserved and reflect the talent and expertise within the office. Growing and developing our team allows us to further support our clients across a variety of service lines and sectors as we look to expand.”
