Fluency

Born in 1975, Jim has a Masters Degree from St Catherine's College, Oxford University, an MBA from Tanaka Business School, Imperial College and is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Jim started his career in 1997 as a trainee at Blick Rothenberg, and was made partner within the firm in July 2007. Since joining he has been engaged in a number of activities including internal audit and systems reviews and various accounting investigations. In the audit department he managed a portfolio of over 100 clients from numerous different countries and industries. During 2002 he was seconded to our associate office in Vancouver, where he enhanced his experience of international issues.

He was appointed a director of BRAL in 2004 and has active responsibility for assisting international clients setting up in the UK wishing to outsource their back office functions, especially those coming to the UK from the US. He has been heavily involved in BRAL becoming the first known UK accounting firm to be SAS 70 Type II accredited. More recently he has been working on the implementation and roll out of eBRAL, our award nominated extranet solution.

Jim enjoys reading, cooking more than he should, running less than he should and is working hard at lowering his rather high golf handicap.

Jo is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Jo started her career in a general practice carrying out a mixed role of audit, accounts preparation, management accounts and VAT. In 2006, after over 9 years of general practice experience, Jo joined BRAL as a Manager of one of our service delivery teams where she was responsible for a portfolio of larger clients covering a variety of industries, dealing with ongoing management and system development and implementation. These clients included groups with operations in up to six different countries across Europe and North America

In January 2008, Jo joined the Senior Management Team and is responsible for client service delivery. This includes meeting prospective clients, working with the New Business Team to integrate new clients into the BRAL systems and working on new BRAL initiatives.

Jo naturally applies her breadth of client service experience to manage the Fluency team in the UK and is involved in the initial set up of systems and processes for new clients. Jo retains an oversight of all processes for a minimum of three months activity, transitioning day-to-day management responsibilities to an account manager over this period.

When Jo is away from the office she is a keen netballer and enjoys spending time socialising with friends and family.