Experience: Stuart trained and qualified with Baker Tilly before leaving in 2000 to join Virgin Atlantic as their Group Financial Accountant. He left in 2002 and moved to Berkeley Homes where he was the Finance Director in charge of their West London operations. He joined Barnbrook Sinclair in 2006 after completing a 6 month placement as the interim Divisional Finance Director at Logica (Space & Defence). Stuart became a Partner of Barnbrook Sinclair in 2009 and he now looks after a wide range of corporate clients and has assisted from initial business start ups through to company sale events.

Experience: Andy joined Baker Tilly in 1998 and progressed from trainee all the way through to director. He spent 10 years in the audit team ultimately looking after the Guildford office’s large Owner Managed Business clients before transferring across to the Accounting and Advisory team to grow it from a small business unit to a team capable of dealing with complex financial reporting, management reporting and outsourced finance director assignments. Andy has detailed experience in a broad range of sectors ranging from Financial Services, Property & Construction and Travel & Retail with the common specialism of dealing with the issues and providing practical solutions to the problems encountered by Owner Managed Businesses.

He joined Barnbrook Sinclair in April 2012 to assist them with their larger clients and to grow the business in his areas of expertise developed at Baker Tilly and he became a partner of the firm in January 2013.

Experience: Leo qualified as a Chartered Tax Advisor in 2002 before joining the Private Client Team of Baker Tilly in 2007. Leo managed the Private Client Team, was on the firm’s national unincorporated business tax group and was responsible for the majority of the office’s partnership clients. Due to the diverse affairs of his clients, Leo has a wealth of experience in dealing with all aspects of personal tax matters with a primary focus on income tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax and non-UK domicile issues.

Leo prides himself on building close working relationships with his clients and strives to develop the trusted advisor status that all clients deserve. He has a particular emphasis on being approachable, quick to respond and ensuring that the complex world of taxation is explained in a clear and concise manner.

Leo joined as a Partner of the firm in April 2014.

Experience: Michael joined Baker Tilly in 1989 and qualified in 1994.  Post qualification he worked in the audit team and progressed to audit manager before leaving in 1998 and joining a smaller practice as a partner.  As a partner, Michael’s worked on corporate clients and helped to develop and expand the firm’s SME team.  During his time at that practice, he worked with clients in a number of industry sectors, advising on a broad range of issues as well as dealing with all of the expected compliance requirements.  Consistent throughout this time was Michael’s focus on working with clients to help them with the financial aspects of their business and to avoid surprises.  Michael joined as a partner of the firm in November 2019 to enhance the advisory offerings of the practice. 

Experience: Originally from New Zealand, Malcolm qualified with PricewaterhouseCoopers working for them in both New Zealand and Australia before transferring to central London. Joining the practice in 1990, Malcolm acts primarily for SMEs and has had many years experience providing audit and commercial planning advice to business owners throughout all stages of the business lifecycle, from start-up to succession and exit planning. In addition to accounting and tax compliance work, Malcolm provides practical advice to business owners as well as helping with commercial solutions to day-to-day problems. He has expertise on a wide range of business issues and detailed knowledge and experience across a wide range of business sectors including travel, financial services and property development. Keen to establish long-term business relationships, he has acted for a number of his current clients for over twenty years.

Experience: Robert began his training in 1980 with Menzies and qualified in 1985.

Before joining Barnbrook Sinclair Robert spent 19 years with a similar sized firm in Surrey, working on all aspects of accounting and taxation for family owned businesses, both corporate and non-corporate.

Robert joined Barnbrook Sinclair in 2004 and his client portfolio consists of owner managed businesses, sole traders and personal tax clients, a number of whom he has advised for many years.

Experience: Hannah joined the practice in 1997 as a trainee. She qualified with the firm and has progressed through to Senior Manager. She specialises in supporting the partners on all the larger corporate clients with an all round knowledge of Management Accounting, Financial Reporting and Corporate Tax. She works very closely with most of the firm’s larger clients, acting as a key point of contact for the day to day ad-hoc queries of the accounts teams as well as working on the year end compliance services. She therefore has a detailed understanding of the more complex accounting software package Sage Line 200, as well as Sage Line 50.

Lesley trained with a local firm of Chartered Accountants qualifying in 1991.  Lesley has worked in both professional practices and in Industry.

Having joined Barnbrook Sinclair in 1997 she looks after a variety of clients both corporate and non corporate dealing with their accounting and taxation requirements, specialising in the smaller SME businesses.

Lauren joined the firm in May 2017, having previously trained with a smaller firm in Berkshire since 2012. Lauren previously worked in the pharmaceuticals industry after graduating, having a background in science. She works mostly on the firm’s corporate clients and assists with monthly, quarterly and annual compliance.

Rebecca started her training at a small firm in Guildford where she successfully passed her AAT exams. She joined Barnbrook Sinclair in 2016 where she completed her studying towards ACCA in October 2018.

Rebecca assists with ensuring clients are getting to grips with the Making Tax Digital legislation and has implemented various different softwares with a wide range of our clients. She particularly enjoys this side of her work. Using her knowledge of the cloud software packages she helps select the software that best suits the client and will provide support throughout the transition process.

Rebecca mainly deals with SMEs and the day to day ad-hoc queries from her portfolio of clients.