Jo Jones and Chris Cole join BDO audit team

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

Skilled companies 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 could have a particular concentrate on audit high quality, tradition and folks growth – one thing which can be notably essential as new expertise continues to reach at BDO.

Talking on her new position, Jones mentioned by way of LinkedIn, “At present is the beginning of a brand new chapter in my life the place I be a 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, know-how, 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, notably these which can be US and UK listed, PE-backed companies and privately-owned corporations.  

Chris Cole in the meantime joins BDO’s Nottingham workplace. He’ll ship explicit experience in auditing US-listed companies beneath 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 concentrate on US listed companies that require audits of inner controls.

Paul Eagland, managing accomplice 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 precise folks in place in our regional hubs to assist audited entities by way of the advanced areas of audit and assurance is important.”