New Additions as Duncan & Toplis Continues to Grow

News release

21st October 2013

Leading accountancy practice Duncan & Toplis has recruited four new members of staff in Newark to cope with increased workload and new clients.

Francesca Tricarico, Gareth Williams, Holly Dinsdale and Tom Jalland have all joined the firm over the summer as the Newark office continues to expand – it is now the second largest in the group after Grantham.

Francesca (28) and Holly (19) are trainee accountants in the final year of their Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) exams at Newark College, and Francesca is combining her studies with her new job and raising two young children.

“I found that I was quite good at accounting at college,” she said. “So far I’ve passed all my exams first time.”

“I’ve tried hard before now to get into this company so I’m really pleased to have got this job!”

Holly, who came top of her year at Newark College, said: “I started off studying engineering but I like maths and decided that accounting is more suited to me.”

Tom Jalland (18) had previously spent some time at Duncan & Toplis on work experience and had already begun his AAT training at Nottingham College when he got the job at the start of October.

“This is a good opportunity for me and I’m really enjoying it, particularly because I’ve always been interested in numbers since I was at school,” he said.

Gareth Williams (34) is the most experienced of the four new recruits. For the past 11 years he has worked at Stephenson Nuttall in Newark, where he became a fully qualified accountant in 2008.

“After more than a decade it was time for a change of scene, and Duncan & Toplis has given me a great opportunity to progress within a bigger firm,” he said.

“I’m enjoying the job, particularly dealing with and helping clients. We all really like it here and we feel that we’ve settled in very quickly.”

Ian Phillips, Deputy Managing Partner of Duncan & Toplis and Senior Partner at the Newark office, said: “We’ve taken on these four new recruits because of the continued growth in client numbers and increasing demand for our services from existing clients.

“We’re delighted that they have joined us. We were inundated with responses and it was pleasing to be able to take on four new employees of such high quality.”

He added that confidence appears to be returning to businesses in the area, reflecting a more positive mood nationally on the economic outlook.

“Locally there is confidence in the business community, but you do have to bear in mind that there are a lot of agricultural influences in the town, and in our client base, and I don’t think we have necessarily seen locally the full impact of the recessionary pressure that’s been experienced elsewhere,” he said.

Ends

Notes to editors:

• Duncan & Toplis was established in 1925 and has since grown into one of the largest independent firms of chartered accountants in the Midlands.
• Duncan & Toplis appears in the top 30 UK accountancy practices list published by Accountancy magazine.
• The company has 10 offices throughout the East Midlands: in Grantham, Boston, Lincoln, Louth, Melton Mowbray, Newark, Skegness, Sleaford, Spalding and Stamford.
• Duncan & Toplis offers a wide range of services to small to large-sized family businesses, from accountancy, audit and tax to payroll, human resources and computer services.
• The business employs around 300 staff, of whom 85 are currently engaged in professional training.

Cerri Delaney
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