• I have 11 years experience holding senior tax roles at BP, most recently as Head of Tax, Europe, and Global Tax Director of BP’s Refining and Marketing Segment. During this time I had responsibility for the tax planning and compliance needs of the businesses and worked as an integral part of the senior management teams. It is this close collaborative approach that I will bring to working with my clients at Ashton Allsop.
• I started my career working in a local Surrey based firm of chartered accountants where I provided accounting and tax services to a diverse range of smaller owner managed businesses. I continued my tax technical training at Price Waterhouse Coopers before joining BP, where I gained experience of a wide range of business and tax issues in the UK and overseas, including living and working for 4 years in the US.
• I am a management accountant with experience of both large, complex organisations and start-up and early-revenue businesses. I am passionate about using data to facilitate evidence-based decision-making.
• In my last corporate role I was a Director in the Corporate Finance function at a Big Four firm. I now advise a range of organisations on business plans for fundraising, budget setting, efficiency improvement and performance monitoring (often using cloud accounting software).
• My sector experience is broad and encompasses a craft brewery, an IT software development company, a special needs Housing Association, a complex property company, various large healthcare providers and a niche graphic design business.
Ashton Allsop Ltd
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is a proactive firm of Chartered Accountants, Business and International Tax Advisers
Your business is extremely important and at the heart of what we do.
We aim to bring value by providing you with a tailored set of services that will enable you to focus on your business. We will:
Listen carefully to understand your specific business needs and challenges
Free you from some of the time consuming but necessary administrative tasks in the management of your business
We strongly believe in taking time to get to know you and your business and building a long term working relationship. As our relationship develops, our aspiration is to be seen as a valued member of your team – a trusted business adviser.
apply a simple but comprehensive approach to provide services in support of you and your business.
to be clear about your short and long term business and personal goals and how you will meet them.
to realise your business plans and solve problems along the way.
the performance of your business to monitor progress and keep your plans on track.
provide additional insight and value through our expert knowledge and experience in the areas of Business Effectiveness and International Taxation.
Two initial meetings free of charge so that we can start to get to know you and your business
address your specific business needs and reliably meeting our service promises
Help and support when you need it
Please contact Paul Allsop without obligation to discuss how we can help you with your business.
Whatever services you choose, we believe in ensuring that we have an understanding of your business at the outset.
Good communication is essential. As a start, we would expect to meet with you at least twice very early in our relationship, once before we are appointed and, if you decide to work with us, once afterwards. Both these meetings are free of charge and part of our investment in you and your business.
At our first meeting we will seek to understand your needs and gather sufficient information to enable us to provide you with a realistic fee quote for our services.
If you decide to appoint us, we will arrange a second meeting. The purpose of this meeting will be to help us to understand the history of your business, your goals and aspirations and key challenges in more detail. During this meeting we will share how to get the most from our simple Business Risk Management Tool in order to build a picture of your key risks and opportunities and the actions you are taking to manage them. We will also use this meeting to ensure that the content of your Service Plan is fully agreed and that there are no misunderstandings in respect of the Price Plan.
