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Simon Davidson

Grant Thornton UK has appointed a companion to its nationwide administration consultancy follow.

Yorkshire-based Simon Davidson has been with the corporate for greater than six years and is enjoying a key function in serving to its shoppers within the area reply to the challenges of the pandemic by making a digital FD community that may present a discussion board for finance professionals to Trade of concepts affords and greatest train.

Throughout his 20-year accounting profession, Davidson has suggested finance groups, CFOs and finance administrators on strategic monetary plans throughout a spread of sectors, with explicit specializations in actual property and building. Shoppers embrace non-public equity-backed, publicly traded, privately held and not-for-profit firms.

As a Companion, he’ll lead a staff of 12 serving to shoppers throughout Yorkshire and the UK to ‘future proof’ their companies with monetary plans and options to assist their development, acquisition or itemizing wants.

Simon Davidson mentioned: “I’m extremely proud to grow to be a companion at Grant Thornton and to steer the monetary advisory facet of the agency. I actually get pleasure from serving to finance groups and FDs make clear their imaginative and prescient after which implement the bespoke plans wanted to get them the place they have to be – be it to make them extra scalable, put together them for IPO or to work extra cost-effectively.

“Changing into a companion is simply a part of the plans we have now to do an increasing number of for our present and potential shoppers – and it is a large vitality for me and the entire staff. I’m really grateful to be working with a gaggle of outstanding professionals right here at Grant Thornton, all with a wealth of expertise and dedication to offering our shoppers with glorious service and outcomes. We won’t wait to ship extra outcomes for our present and potential shoppers.”

Andy Wooden, Managing Companion of Yorkshire added: “We’re delighted for Simon to grow to be a companion with Grant Thornton right here in Yorkshire. Simon is a real chief for the long run. He’s personable, properly related and has a really pragmatic strategy to enterprise consulting, that means he delivers sensible, life like plans fairly than theoretical issues, in the end resulting in distinctive outcomes for shoppers.

“Working with varied finance groups and FDs in the course of the pandemic has made him an extremely valued member of the regional group. The Digital FD Community grew to become a extremely necessary safe discussion board for purchasers and non-customers alike in the course of the first lockdown when companies have been pressured to transition their operations nearly in a single day.”