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What sets Hazel apart?

Hazel is an ACA, FCCA-qualified Partner who leads the Accountancy Service Line and is a member of the Senior Leadership Team, focusing on operational delivery and growth. 

Providing proactive and pragmatic accounts and tax services to aspirational business leaders, Hazel builds strong client relationships to understand their business activities, commercial challenges, future ambitions, and personal goals. As a trusted advisor, she delivers holistic business support and tax planning, introducing the firm’s specialists when needed to ensure clients receive the right expertise at the right time.

Hazel is head of the Management Information Services, helping clients turn financial data into actionable insights through bespoke management accounts. She champions cloud-based solutions that automate and integrate accounting systems, boosting efficiency and supporting business growth in a fast-evolving digital world.

Hazel also serves as a Non-Executive Board Member of Cosmic, a social enterprise committed to making digital technology accessible to everyone, regardless of age, ability, or background.

Hazel's service expertise

  • Providing advice on the appropriate business entity structure to operate, with extensive experience of advising businesses on setting up groups with a holding company
  • Helping clients to understand the financial reporting standard accounting policies to adopt and their impact from an accounting and tax perspective
  • Advising clients on the pay and reward of directors and key employees
  • Advising clients on the financial performance of the business and assistance with setting financial budgets and cashflow monitoring which are aligned to business plans
  • Proactive pre-year end tax planning to enable business owners to make informed decisions to plan for tax liabilities
  • Advising high growth turnover clients on the transition of exiting from the cash accounting VAT scheme to invoice basis
  • Advising clients on their VAT record keeping systems in readiness for Making VAT Digital

Hazel's sector expertise

  • Advising clients in the High-Tech sector from incubator stage to revenue generation
  • Assisting with their corporate structure and obtaining attractive Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) status for external investor funding
  • Advising clients who are diversifying and launching new products, entering new markets by trading online and overseas
  • Advising clients who are seeking to purchase commercial property as part of their expansion plans and how best to structure the acquisition
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“Thank you and your team for all your help and support through the year end process, and particularly the impressive tax saving on the R and D Claim! This is where a good relationship with our external partners really comes into play, and I am very pleased with how you have worked proactively and positively with us over the last 12 months.”

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