Sydney-based Kreston World member Kreston Stanley Williamson has joined rising nationwide agency SW Accountants & Advisors, including a group of greater than 35 companions and workers.
Led by managing associate Michael Goodrick, the accounting and advisory agency traces its heritage again to 1969, earlier than adopting the Stanley Williamson (coincidentally, S&W) identify a decade later and becoming a member of Kreston in 2010.
Celebrating the one decade anniversary of its swap from Moore Stephens in Melbourne, SW’s Sydney headcount will now lengthen to past 100 by the merger, together with latest associate recruits Vanessa Priest and Kirsty McDonnell.
“With their deep experience in skilled apply and their fame as trusted advisors, KSW will considerably improve our service choices within the area,” said SW CEO Duane Rogers. “Their dedication to supporting their individuals’s profession development and increasing their service portfolio completely aligns with our objectives as we proceed to strengthen our place in Sydney.”
Primarily based out of the prosperous suburb of Kirribilli in Sydney’s north, KSW gives a complete suite of accounting, audit, tax, advisory and different monetary providers to help shoppers of varied sizes throughout a variety of industries, together with these working within the manufacturing, property, expertise, promoting, retail, {and professional} providers sectors amongst others.
Alongside Goodrick, who has been with KSW for greater than 4 a long time and its managing associate since 1990, the agency has an extra 4 companions, together with Darren O’Malley, Quang Tat and Ben Barter, who’ve additionally been with the agency for upwards of twenty years, and Kamal Thakkar, a former PKF principal who joined in 2017 and likewise serves as chair of Kreston’s APAC steering committee.
Complete options
“The tradition we’ve cultivated has been the results of a long time of onerous work and dedication, and so we’re excited to affix a agency like SW, whose values and tradition align with our personal,” Goodrick said. “This partnership will empower us to ship much more complete options to raised serve our shoppers and broaden our skilled attain, each nationally and internationally.”
Goodrick additionally famous SW’s clear development technique and the skilled growth alternatives which might now be accessible to KSW’s group of greater than 30 practitioners, together with round a dozen primarily based within the Philippines. Amongst that quantity is corporate co-founder Invoice Stanley, who established the agency over 55 years in the past and continues to work as a part-time advisor.
Attributable to take part early March, SW stated the merger with KSW marked an vital milestone in its ongoing nationwide growth efforts, with the agency additionally having places of work in Brisbane and Perth however dominated by its 90-year legacy in Melbourne. Altogether, SW will now have a partnership rely of 45, together with eleven in Sydney, who lead a group of 400-plus professionals nationwide.
