International accountants and business advisers Mazars have bolstered the Leicester office with two new appointments.
Emma English and Faye Millington join as senior corporate tax manager and corporate tax senior respectively.
It comes as the office, only launched last year, continues to build business and add to staff numbers.
They will help deliver the growing workload as a result of new clients coming on board.
Ms English specialises in corporate reorganisations, transactional work and employee share schemes.
She said: “I worked with the current partners of Mazars Leicester office throughout my time with my previous firm and so know the team well.
“I was attracted to work for Mazars as it has a great reputation nationally and, more specifically in Leicester. It is a fast growing office with terrific people and good opportunities for career progression.”
She has been in Leicester for 11 years advising mainly owner managed businesses on a wide range of tax planning.
Ms Millington moves across the Midlands, transferring from the Birmingham office of Mazars.
She said: “Choosing Mazars was an easy choice as the company offered the opportunity to study the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ACA qualification and to study tax – my preferred specialism – as well as holding many core values which fit with my own.
“As the Leicester office has only recently been established it presents an exciting new opportunity for me and new challenges, as well as the office being closer to home. I hope to continue to work in corporate tax, however, also expand to experience more personal tax as well as more technically challenging advisory work, further establishing the Mazars name in the East Midlands.”
Ms Millington graduated from the University of East Anglia in 2010 and started in the Birmingham office of Mazars as a tax graduate in October 2010.
She became ACA qualified in August last year and has now begun studying for the Chartered Institute of Taxation’s CTA qualification.
Chris Darlington, partner and head of the Leicester office, said: “We are pleased to welcome both Emma and Faye.
“Knowing her strengths and abilities well we were keen to attract Emma to join us. She is fully conversant with the area and many of the businesses in it. I am certain she will be a significant asset as we continue to expand.”
He added: “Faye is a young and talented individual who is keen to progress.
“The Leicester office is growing fast and we continue on the look out for staff across all parts of the business.”
