Partners
John Pickering - Senior Partner
John has been a Partner with Scrutton Bland for over 25 years and has built up significant expertise and experience in the sectors of agriculture, family businesses, the affairs of high net worth individuals and Trusts and Estates.
His particular concern is to build a close personal relationship with his clients to enable him to advise to best effect based on a clear understanding of their wider circumstances.
tel: 01473 259201
fax: 01473 231643
email John Pickering
Sharon Gravener - Managing Partner
Sharon has been with Scrutton Bland for over 25 years and is the Managing Partner of the firm. In addition she is a partner in our Corporate Services Department based in Ipswich. She specialises in providing services to larger owner managed businesses and professional partnerships. She feels that her years of experience in practice and now managing the firm give her a great deal of empathy with her clients accounting, tax and business issues.
As well as delivering compliance based services of audit and accountancy, Sharon advises her clients on corporate finance transactions.
As part of the team delivering services to Higher Education and Further Education colleges, Sharon has an expertise in internal audit services, providing these to clients across the whole of East Anglia.
tel: 01473 259201
fax: 01473 231643
email Sharon Gravener
Nick Banks
Nick joined Scrutton Bland in July 1993 and trained with the firm until qualification. Nick was appointed a partner in April 2004 and now leads with John Pickering the business services department of the Ipswich Office looking after a wide and varied portfolio but specialising in medical sector clients, small owner managed businesses, professional partnerships and farming clients. Nick is the finance partner and sits on our ICT committee. He is a past treasurer of the Ipswich and Suffolk Small Business Association and is currently Chair of Governors at Ringshall Primary School.
tel: 01473 259201
fax: 01473 231643
email Nick Banks
Andrew Edge
Andrew joined the Scrutton Bland Group in October 2011 as Partner in charge of the Independent Financial Planning arm of Scrutton Bland Ltd. Andrew has been a fully qualified independent financial adviser (IFA) since July 1988 and was working for a national firm until 1999. For the last 12 years before joining Scrutton Bland, Andrew was running a similar financial planning business for a Norfolk based accountancy practice. Andrew specialises in providing investment, pension and protection planning to personal and corporate clients. Andrew is looking forward to working with the existing financial planning team and building on the success achieved to date.
tel: 01473 259201
fax: 01473 281779
email Andrew Edge
Jason Fayers
Jason is one of our tax partners and specialises in all aspects of business and corporate taxation. He joined the firm in 1998 from the Inland Revenue where he had spent the previous ten years working as an Inspector of Taxes. His extensive experience in dealing with Inland Revenue enquiries and tax investigations has proved extremely worthwhile and successful. Jason heads our Tax Department in both of our Ipswich & Colchester offices which, in addition to providing personal, business and corporate tax compliance, planning and advice also includes the provision of payroll services, PAYE compliance support and remuneration planning services.
tel: 01473 259201
fax: 01473 231643
email Jason Fayers
Sue Gull
Sue joined Scrutton Bland as a partner in February 2001 and jointly heads our Corporate Services practice in Ipswich . Sue serves a number of our larger clients, which range from substantial privately owned businesses to subsidiaries of international companies. As well as audit and accountancy services, she has experience in advising corporate businesses on a broad range of issues including share valuations, group re-organisations and buying and selling businesses. Sue has a particular interest in the construction industry, which has many specific tax and accounting issues. She also specialises in the audit of pension schemes and works with many of the solicitor clients of Scrutton Bland. As Staff Partner for Scrutton Bland, she is responsible for over 100 staff, including approximately 30 students in training for professional exams.
tel: 01473 259201
fax: 01473 231643
email Sue Gull
Tim Long
Tim joined the insurance broking division of Scrutton Bland Ltd in 2005, following the integration of SoleBay Insurance, building on our already extensive involvement with the East Anglian farming, estate and land-owning fraternity. Tim has previously worked for specialist agricultural Insurance Brokers and Underwriters advising clients and professionals on general and technical aspects of agricultural, estate and rural insurance. Tim was a founder of SoleBay Insurance Brokers offering agricultural, commercial and larger household insurance solutions to the business and land-owning community throughout East Anglia and beyond.
tel: 01206 838400
fax: 01206 838401
email Tim Long
James McElhinney
James is a Business Services Partner based in our Colchester office. Having originally trained with Scrutton Bland, James spent a number of years as a Partner in another firm in Ipswich, before having a spell in commerce as Finance Director of a large haulage company. He then spent several years building a practice as a sole practitioner before merging with Scrutton Bland in 1999. Now, James is a General Practitioner acting for a large number of varying types of businesses trading as sole traders, partnerships and family owned companies. He assists owners and managers in production of regular management accounts and information, together with business planning as well as the usual array of compliance matters.
His specialisms include Freight Forwarding, Logistics, Warehousing and Distribution and he currently acts for a large number of haulage businesses in Suffolk and Essex. These range from owner operators to larger multi million pound turnover companies running fleets in excess of 100 own vehicles.
tel: 01206 838400
fax: 01206 838401
email James McElhinney
Tim Mulley
Tim is a partner based in our Colchester office as the head of our Insurance Broking Division. He manages a team of thirty-five people in Colchester and Diss who specialise in Corporate Insurances and Personal Insurances for High Net Worth individuals, handling approx £10 million in premium income.
Tim has over 15 years experience as an Insurance Broker and previously as a Commercial Insurances underwriter at a leading UK insurance company. He also is the partner responsible for marketing of the Group, the marketing team arranged over 15 events last year.
tel: 01206 838400
fax: 01206 838401
email Tim Mulley
Tim O’Connor
Tim joined the Colchester branch of the accountants in January 2002 as a manager, having worked for a medium sized accountancy practice in Norwich. He has been in practice for 17 years, the first 9 years was spent in general practice and has subsequently specialised in corporate work, particularly small and medium sized companies and not-for-profit organisations.
tel: 01206 838400
fax: 01206 838401
email Tim O’Connor
Andrew Strickland
Andrew is a corporate partner based in our Colchester office and acts for a wide range of proprietorial and educational clients. He has extensive audit experience and is chairman of the Review Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Andrew has been involved in a large number of corporate finance transactions, and is accustomed to providing close support to clients through the sale of their businesses. He recognises the importance of planning in ensuring that the best possible tax result is obtained: this often requires appropriate planning prior to sale. It also requires the careful management of any proceeds which are to be received on a deferred or contingent basis. Litigation support is one of the specialist services offered by Scrutton Bland and Andrew Strickland heads up this service. Reports have been produced relating to personal injury claims, contractual disputes and Fatal Accident Act claims. Andrew acts as an expert who is very comfortable in giving evidence in court and in being subject to robust cross-examination on that evidence. The keynote to this service is simple: any report that is produced has to be written with the awareness that it may need to be defended in detail in court.
Scrutton Bland has a specialism in further and higher education: we currently act for three higher educational institutions and for some fourteen colleges of further education. Andrew is one of the partners who leads this service.
tel: 01206 838400
fax: 01206 838401
email Andrew Strickland
