Johnston Carmichael, Scotland’s largest independent accountancy and business advisory firm, today announced the latest addition to its client support services with the launch of its consulting business line.
Designed primarily for the Scottish corporate and SME market, the consulting team’s objective is to support businesses during periods of change, working alongside their in-house teams to deliver major performance improvement projects which generate significant and measurable bottom line impact.
The new practice is headed up by Alistair Black, a Chartered Management Accountant who has over 20 years of experience working in senior executive and consulting roles across a range of industrial sectors. Alistair spent 12 years with a global Japanese engineering and manufacturing business where he worked extensively in mainland Europe, Japan, South East Asia and North America. Since returning from the USA 10 years ago he has worked with a number of UK-based companies, most recently at CALA Group where he supported the Executive Board with a wide-reaching business integration project following their acquisition of Banner Homes. Prior to that, he spent two years at video security specialists Indigovision plc, serving initially as Interim Group CFO before taking responsibility for the company’s operations and quality functions.
Johnston Carmichael CEO, Sandy Manson said: “There is a huge breadth of financial and operational experience within Johnston Carmichael covering many of Scotland’s core industry sectors. Our new consulting offering will enable us to utilise this expertise to enhance the support we offer to clients and help prepare them for future challenges.
“Alistair Black, who will lead our consulting team, is an exciting hire for our business. In addition to his extensive international track record, he also has considerable knowledge of the Scottish business community and is ideally place to assist our clients successfully meet the challenges of project management and implementing continuous improvement methodologies.”
Alistair Black, Johnston Carmichael’s newly appointed Consulting Director, said: “As a professional services firm we recognise that our role is to help our clients succeed. Our new consulting offering is a natural extension of the expertise and services already provided by Johnston Carmichael and is aimed at helping our clients become even more successful through periods of change and improvement.”