Senior Staff

You’d be forgiven when looking through the multitude of accounting sites on the web that accountants are all the same.

However, one element of any accounting firm that makes them different from anyone else is ‘the human element.’ The trouble is, so many don’t project the human side of their business, choosing instead to hide behind tax returns and spreadsheets and relatively distant from your business.

It’s the human element that makes Berley so different. With Berley, you don’t work with accountants, you work with people. Easy to say and obvious, right? Then why are so many accounting firms out there just a firm of accountants?

We’d like to introduce you to the real people behind our firm that will be in front of your business. Each has a particular skill set that makes them unique. Each is interested in what makes your business tick and what will make it successful.

Jeremy Berman
Partner
Once an accountant, always an accountant; a phrase that sums up Jeremy to a tee. He started early too; age 10, working in his father’s accountancy practice and by 11 he’d gained proficiency in bookkeeping and bank reconciliations. He has always had a strong work ethic.
Mark Levy
Partner
Mark regards himself as a businessman first and chartered accountant second. This is a reflection of his intense entrepreneurial spirit and passion for helping start-ups and small businesses succeed.
Jan Lockley
Head of tax
Jan is a ‘Private Client Tax’ expert, applying her many years of tax experience at a personal level. Her focus is on private individuals, their families and trusts.
Mark West
Senior Manager, Insolvency
Mark started in the profession in the early 80s working for a small boutique insolvency firm. Over the coming years, he moved to larger firms. This culminated in a secondment to Melbourne to assist with a full-scale collapse of three medium-sized building societies.
Samuel Louis
Head of Audit
During his time at Berley, Samuel has developed good relationships with clients and provides them with commercial and technical advice which covers audit, accounting and corporate taxation.
Matt Maitland
Client Services Manager
During his time with Berley, Matt has provided services to clients of varied sizes and structures covering accounting, audit, bookkeeping and corporate taxation as well as commercial and technical advice. Matt also manages the VAT compliance and bookkeeping function that we provide.