Jo Jones and Chris Col join BDO audit team

Accountancy and enterprise advisory agency BDO has strengthened its audit providers as with the addition of two new companions. Jo Jones and Chris Cole convey virtually 40 years of mixed expertise to the agency.

Skilled providers agency BDO has been making constant efforts to beef up its audit providing throughout the UK. In 2023, the audit division welcomed 400 trainees, and in 2024 that’s set to rise to more than 500.

Jo Jones joins BDO amid this development, arriving on the agency’s Southampton workplace. Jones may have a particular give attention to audit high quality, tradition and other people improvement – one thing which shall be significantly essential as new expertise continues to reach at BDO.

Talking on her new function, Jones mentioned through LinkedIn, “Right now is the beginning of a brand new chapter in my life the place I be part of the BDO Southampton Partnership crew. I’m energised for this new problem and look ahead to assembly my new crew over the approaching weeks.”

Jones’ audit expertise spans a variety of industries, together with retail, leisure and tourism, expertise, and pharma. She spent the final 18 years with PwC, the place she was latterly a senior supervisor in assurance – and specialises in multinational teams, significantly these which might be US and UK listed, PE-backed companies and privately-owned firms.  

Chris Cole in the meantime joins BDO’s Nottingham workplace. He’ll ship specific experience in auditing US-listed companies below the nation’s Public Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) requirements, together with auditing SOX controls.  

He spent the final eight years within the UK wing of KPMG. There, he was latterly an audit director for medium to large-sized corporates with revenues from £10 million to £22 billion, with a main give attention to US listed companies that require audits of inside controls.

Paul Eagland, managing companion at BDO, mentioned of the appointments, “Jo and Chris’s appointments are a key a part of our ongoing strategic funding into audit high quality. Having the appropriate individuals in place in our regional hubs to help audited entities by means of the advanced areas of audit and assurance is significant.”