Two senior promotions at Haines Watts Bristol

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Peter Davison

Matthew Oldfield, Andrew Jordan, Elizabeth Jenkins of Haines Watts Bristol

The Bristol office of accountancy firm Haines Watts has announced two promotions within its senior team.

Matthew Oldfield, who joined the company almost nine years ago after previously working for HMRC for more than a decade, becomes an associate from his position as senior tax manager.

Meanwhile Elizabeth Jenkins is promoted to client manager, following four years with Haines Watts. The company specialises in accounting services for SMEs from its offices in Bath Street.

Elizabeth has worked mainly in accounts and audits for a wide range of clients, specialising in work with charities as well as pensions and FCA assurance work.

The promotions come as Haines Watts Bristol looks to continue a period of rapid expansion. Last year it announced the appointment of Andrew Jordan as a director at the firm, after it grew staff numbers from 20 to 60 in the previous five years, with turnover trebling during the same period.

Andrew said that the promotions of Matthew and Elizabeth reflected continued investment in the senior team as the company continues its growth plans.

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“The promotions reflect our continued investment in the team and demonstrates the success of our decision to ‘grow our own’,” he said.

“Matt and Elizabeth have both done exceptionally well in their time with us and the promotions reflect the high level of commitment they have shown to clients and colleagues alike.

“They are both crucial to the business, now and as we move forward. The elevation of their roles enables us to continue to offer the high quality of service and technical expertise our clients demand whilst providing a platform to continue our growth plans in the future.”

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.