COLLETT HULANCE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Associate Director
- Chartered Certified Accountant and Registered Auditor
Andrew, a qualified Chartered Certified Accountant and Registered Auditor, has been a Partner at Collett Hulance since 2008. His experience spans all aspects of accounting including charity accounts, group company accounts and audit.
Andrew particularly enjoys working with owner managed businesses and aims to build very good relationships with his clients by providing a personal service with a friendly approach. He's a family man at heart and, as an avid football supporter, loves nothing more than kicking a ball around with his children at the weekend.
Briony qualified in 1995 and joined Collett Hulance in 2001. A real numbers person, Briony enjoys working closely with her clients, preparing meaningful information for management and filing purposes.
Other than spreadsheets, Briony's passions are cars and holidays; she is always the most tanned in the office!
Job Titles:
- Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Advisor
Charlotte, a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Advisor, qualified at KPMG and joined Collett Hulance in 2016. Prior to joining our team, Charlotte spent eight years as a hedge fund analyst, before setting up her own accountancy practice from home, enabling her to combine her work with her home life. She became Associate Director in November 2021 following the retirement of Michael Hill and now heads up her own busy team focusing on owner managed businesses and private clients.
Ella qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Bell and Company where she gained fourteen years' experience supporting owner managed businesses. She joined Collett Hulance in 2017 and immediately settled into a client manager role, establishing great relationships with all of her clients, which include owner managers, farmers and property investors.
Ella is a keen runner and is currently training her Fox Red Labrador to join her on some of her longer runs (but not very successfully!)
Helen is a Chartered Accountant and joined Collett Hulance in 2017. Helen has spent almost thirty years at her previous firm of accountants, where she gained invaluable experience managing a wide portfolio of clients. Helen now looks after many of our owner managed businesses, dealing with both accounts and personal tax matters.
Helen is another of the firm's runners, although by her own admission, the focus is more on the socialising and cake than the competition!
Job Titles:
- Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants
Lynden is a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants with considerable experience in all areas of accountancy practice. He has worked with a wide range of clients, from sole traders and charities, to national organisations.
Having run his own practice before merging with Collett Hulance, Lynden understands the pressures on owner managed businesses and provides a pragmatic approach to their accounting needs. Lynden prides himself on building strong relationships with his clients; he is always happy to share his time with them…especially if coffee and cake is involved.
Mark is a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Tax Adviser and the latest Partner to join the team. Mark brings with him more than 10 years' experience working as a Partner in another Firm and has a wealth of experience advising Clients on business and taxation issues.
Mark is a great lover of the outdoors, which may explain why he enjoys working with agricultural Clients so much. At the weekends, if he is not on a family dog walk, Mark will probably be up a mountain.
Job Titles:
- Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
Martin is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and has extensive experience in audit, taxation and financial due diligence. Martin's knowledge has been gained from working in several national accountancy practices, which serves him well when dealing with owner managed businesses, local Charities and large Corporates. Martin also works on specialist areas including schools/academies, solicitors and pension schemes.
In his spare time, Martin enjoys cycling, dancing (modern jive) and other outdoor activities such as sailing and skiing.
Michael is a qualified Tax Professional with almost 25 years' experience as Partner in a busy Accountancy Practice.
Michael's ethos has always been to provide a very personal and tailored service, achieved by knowing and understanding his Clients and their businesses extremely well. This approach is greatly appreciated by all of his long-standing Clients…as are his skills on the golf course!
Michael is a qualified tax professional and, with almost twenty years experience as a partner, he considers himself to be
Job Titles:
- Payroll Manager
- Fellow of the Association of Taxation Technicians
Susan is a Fellow of the Association of Taxation Technicians and has gained over twenty years' experience in practice and six years working for HMRC. Susan likes to build strong relationships with her clients and believes it is important to understand individual's personal circumstances, to help them fulfil their tax compliance obligations. Her experience includes all aspects of Personal and Capital Gains Tax and her clients are mainly sole traders, property owners and high net worth individuals.
Susan enjoys baking cakes and often organises charity cake days in the office. When she is not baking, she will either be flower arranging or out walking, to get to 10,000 steps a day on her Fitbit!
Trina joined Collett Hulance in 2021 and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals, graduating in 2019. Having worked in payroll services for eight years, Trina has a wealth of experience which she enjoys passing on to our clients.
In her spare time, Trina can be found square dancing, doing yoga and baking.