Accounting and consulting community Baker Tilly has appointed Melbourne-based Pitcher Companions chief Nick Bull as its new World Head of Audit.
Reporting to world CEO Francesca Lagerberg, Bull will probably be liable for overseeing Baker Tilly’s audit observe throughout roughly 140 international locations worldwide, which altogether boast a headcount of just about 45,000 professionals.
Persistently ranked among the many world’s ten largest organisations of its type, Baker Tilly final yr pulled in world revenues of $5.2 billion, with assurance & accounting – the agency’s conventional bread and butter – up by 10 p.c.
“With Nick’s appointment, we’re lucky to have an skilled accomplice to be the interior and exterior voice of Baker Tilly on key audit points,” acknowledged Lagerberg, who took over as CEO in 2022. “His expertise makes him effectively positioned to supply strategic insights and develop instruments and options to execute our world audit technique and deepen collaboration throughout the community.”
Bull has been with Baker Tilly’s Australian affiliate Pitcher Companions – regionally a high ten agency with revenues across the $350 million mark – since 2001, gaining admission to the partnership 9 years on. He has led the agency’s enterprise advisory and assurance observe since 2016, and can proceed in that position serving shoppers along with his new network-wide obligations.
In accordance with Baker Tilly, these will embody co-coordinating with regional and repair line audit groups to drive the agency’s world audit technique, whereas main community efforts in audit-related enterprise improvement, data sharing, and studying applications. Bull has beforehand accomplished two secondments with abroad community members throughout his 24 years on the agency.
“I’m trying ahead to working with colleagues all over the world to additional improve the competitiveness of our companies and leverage the already sturdy connections inside our community, which provides the chance to entry options which are uniquely designed and delivered for every shopper, powered by the expertise and experience of a high ten world organisation,” Bull mentioned.
Bull is the second Pitcher Companions skilled out of Melbourne to have taken on a distinguished worldwide position in current instances, with Ben Lloyd, who joined the agency in 2003, having spent greater than a decade as world COO previous to being named Baker Tilly Canada’s first ever CEO final yr. Each males are additionally College of Melbourne alum, Bull graduating with a commerce diploma in 1999.
