Our Team

Robert Brown

Telephone: 01525 873922

Email: robert@landerstheaccountants.com

Position: Director

Qualifications:
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales
BSc (Hons)

Experience & specialisms:
Robert has deep rooted experience of working closely with many owner-managed businesses. These range from £30,000 turnover start-ups to a £20 million turnover household name. Recent projects Robert has been involved with include the successful sale of a specialist engineering company, due diligence to support the acquisition of an electronics business, restructuring of a manufacturing group, and a share reorganisation of a family owned import business. Blessed with a larger than average pair of ears, Robert likes to use them.

Outside work:
Robert's enthusiasms are his wife and two sons, Newcastle United, Wine, North American Indians and when he has his anorak on, Railways.

Martin Matthews

Telephone: 01525 873922

Email: martin@landerstheaccountants.com

Position: Director

Qualifications:
Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
BA (Hons)

Experience & specialisms:
Martin joined Landers in April 2003 having previously gained 5 years experience working for a small/medium firm in Public Practice. He specialises in managing the firm's audit clients as well as managing a portfolio of clients ranging from small owner managed firms to multi million pound turnover companies.

Emma Matthews

Telephone: 01525 873922

Email: emma@landerstheaccountants.com

Position: Associate Director

Qualifications:
Member of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)

Experience & specialisms:
Emma joined Landers in August 2004 having previously gained 7 years experience working for a small/medium firm in Public Practice. Emma manages a portfolio of clients for whom she undertakes all of the compliance work and general advice.

Nicola Bethell

Telephone: 01525 873922

Email: nicola@landerstheaccountants.com

Position: Client Manager

Qualifications:
Part qualified training to be a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
HND Business and Finance

Experience & specialisms:
Nicola joined Landers in April 2004 after travelling South America. She gained 5 years experience working for a small firm in public practice managing a portfolio of clients ranging from sole traders to limited companies requiring audits.

Ellen Williams

Telephone: 01525 873922

Email: ellen@landerstheaccountants.com

Position: Office Manager

Qualifications:
Integrated Business Technology III
RSA Shorthand 120 wpm
RSA Typing 65 wpm

Experience & specialisms:
Ellen joined Landers in January 2000. She gained most of her experience working in Central London for a blue chip company and in recent years helped her husband run his own business.

Natalie Doyle

Telephone: 01525 873922

Email: Natalie@landerstheaccountants.com

Position: Receptionist/Secretary

Qualifications:
Natalie has gained an NVQ Level 2 in Business and Administrative Studies and numerous Word Processing & Text Processing skills.

Experience & specialisms:
She has developed her skills in a variety of ways including helping client managers out with analysis work and updating new systems now in place.

Personal:
Since joining Natalie has married and had 2 gorgeous daughters. She enjoys spending time with her family on days out.

Sharon Gobey

Telephone: 01525 873922

Email: sharon@landerstheaccountants.com

Position: Admin Assistant

Qualifications:
Pitmans - Intermediate, Elementary & Advanced

Experience & specialisms:
Joined in October 1997 as receptionist/secretary and has seen the business progress and develop. Now works within an admin/marketing role.

Outside work:
Since joining Landers, Sharon has married and had 3 children.

Sarah Jolly

Telephone: 01525 873922

Email: sarah@landerstheaccountants.com

Position: Client Manager

Qualifications:
Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

Experience & specialisms:
Sarah joined Landers in August 2006 having gained 5 years experience working for a small chartered accountancy firm, where she developed a range of skills in accounts, taxation, payroll and audit.

Robert Tite

Telephone: 01525 873922

Email: roberttite@landerstheaccountants.com

Position: Client Manager

Qualifications:
Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales

Experience & specialisms:
Robert joined Landers in 2007 having gained a varied 9 years experience working for a small firm in Public Practice. He has acquired valued experience in managing accounting and taxation services to small businesses and prides himself on providing a full and friendly service to clients and being able to adapt to unusual situations.

Outside work:
If he's not working your most likely find Robert playing his Tuba with his local brass band, or having a beer! but not at the same time!

Susan Winskill

Telephone: 01525 873922

Email: susan@landerstheaccountants.com

Position: Tax Manager

Qualifications:
Chartered Tax Adviser

Experience & specialisms:
Susan joined Landers in March 2008 having previously worked here in a temporary capacity. She has gained a great amount of general tax experience working for several small and medium sized accountancy practices. She originally worked in the Inland Revenue before moving to a national firm of accountants where she obtained her qualifications.

John Moore

Telephone: 01525 873922

Email: john@landerstheaccountants.com

Position: Client Manager

Qualifications:
BA (Hons) Business Administration specialising in finance
Member of The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)

Experience & specialisms:
John joined Landers in June 2008, having previously gained 5 years experience working for a small chartered accounting firm administrating a range of clients from sole traders to auditable limited companies. During this time he developed a number of skills including bookkeeping, accounts, taxation and auditing.

Outside work:
Sport – football/badminton/tennis/weights/running, computing enthusiast, playing guitar, Grimsby Town FC.

Chris Floyd

Telephone: 01525 873922

Email: chris@landerstheaccountants.com

Position: Tax Manager

Qualifications:
BSc (Hons)
Association of Taxation Technicians

Experience & specialisms:
After spending the first 8 years of his career learning the internal workings of the Inland Revenue (now HM Revenue & Customs) Chris jumped ships to gain experience in the real world. His experiences on the dark side ranged from processing tax returns to collecting tax and assisting in the prosecution of tax fraud. Since leaving HMRC Chris’s experiences have widened further to include helping people to minimise their tax liabilities through careful planning and defending clients against HMRC enquiries.