Meet the Team
Behind every good business is a good team and never more so than here at Brearley & Co. We pride ourselves on creating a positive ‘can do’ attitude amongst our staff within a warm, friendly environment.
Here’s a bit about them.
Partners
Alan Cotton
DirectorAlan and his team have a wide knowledge base to look after businesses in numerous sectors.
view profileAlex Brearley
DirectorAlex officially joined the firm in 1997 but was photocopying tax returns when he was seven!
view profileJohn Hesselden
DirectorJohn joined Brearley & Co in 1988 and has been a Partner since 2000.
view profileMark Smallman
Managing DirectorMark joined the firm in 1987 and has over 20 years’ experience in practice.
view profileMichael Race
DirectorMichael joined the company in 1995 and has over 20 years of experience in accounting practices.
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Accounts
Luke Campbell
Luke joined us as an accounts apprentice in 2020
Meloney Dargie
AccountsMeloney joined Brearley & Co from her senior position at PKN and has over 18 years accountancy experience as well as having a period running her own accountancy business.
Tim Schofield
AccountsTim works in the Accounts team and deals with preparation of Year End Accounts, preparation of quarterly/monthly management accounts and prepares quarterly VAT returns.He also does monthly accounting reports, inclusive ratios etc.. Bookkeeping advice and systems, manual or computerised
Admin
Business Development/Marketing
Credit Control
Tracy Berry
Credit ControlTracy deals with Credit Control and assists clients with managing payment of their invoices.
Payroll
Sally Dewsnap
Payroll ManagerSally is the Payroll Manager at our Swinton office and along with processing various payrolls and liaising with clients regarding statutory payments and other HR and payroll queries, she also processes auto enrolment, CIS, salary sacrifice and she is the initial contact for new Payroll clients.
Tax
Gillian McDonald
TaxGillian joined our tax compliance team after working at BHP for 12 years, and brings a great deal of experience to the tax team