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Monday Movers: Latest North East appointments

CHARTERED accountancy practice Tait Walker has announced a new appointment and a key promotion within its Tees Valley office.

Lee Jefferson, 26 yrs, has been appointed by Tait Walker as a trainee accountant. As a qualified accounting technician Lee has already gained some experience and hopes to build on that in his new role, to become a fully qualified accountant.

In addition to this and in recognition of his continued contribution to the growth of Tait Walker’s corporate finance team based in Tees Valley, Mike Russell has been promoted to the level of associate director.

Since joining the practice as a corporate finance executive in 2005, Mr Russell has steadily progressed his career moving from the position of corporate finance manager to his present level of associate director.

Meanwhile, employment tax expert Lee Muter has joined accountant unw.

Lee Muter has joined the expanding Newcastle business adviser as employment taxes partner from Ernst & Young where he was the director in charge of their Human Capital business in the North East and Scotland.

His appointment comes after Paul Kaiser recently joined unw as a corporate finance partner after more than two decades with Deloitte.

unw employment taxes partner Lee Muter said: “Before I spoke to unw I had never considered moving out of the ‘big four’ but after an initial meeting I was very excited by the opportunity.

“The unw proposition of providing clients with technical expertise combined with a focus on client service and value for money has been very successful and I liked the attitude that runs through the firm.

“The more I thought about it and the more I found out about unw, the more excited I became. I enjoy working with clients and working as part of a team; the unw team is very strong across all departments and their views on how to help clients are very similar to my own.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .