{"id":27797,"date":"2025-01-23T14:12:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smh.group\/?p=27797"},"modified":"2025-01-27T14:35:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:35:52","slug":"smh-group-internal-news-january-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devstagesite.co.uk\/smhgroup\/smh-group-internal-news-january-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"SMH Group Internal News – January 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to our monthly internal news where we highlight the latest staff updates from SMH Group.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, we shared some exciting news that Jonathon Dickens has been appointed CEO of the business. Click here to read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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New Starters<\/h2>\n

We are pleased to welcome six new starters to the group this month:<\/p>\n

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  • Steve Fern – CFO<\/li>\n
  • Sam Green – Operations and Facilities Manager<\/li>\n
  • Joe Critchley – Haywood & Co – Semi Senior Accountant<\/li>\n
  • Luc Ramsden – Principle Finance – Commercial Finance Broker<\/li>\n
  • Troy Joseph – SMH Financial Services – Financial Planning Assistant<\/li>\n
  • Maria Goncharova – SMH BCL Accountants – Trainee Accountants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Qualifications<\/h2>\n

    Well done to Josh Laughton who passed his final ACCA exams and now is a fully qualified Accountant!<\/p>\n

    Mergers<\/h2>\n

    We are proud to announce that another firm has merged into the SMH Group and more news will follow soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Welcome to our monthly internal news where we highlight the latest staff updates from SMH Group. Earlier this month, we shared some exciting news that Jonathon Dickens has been appointed CEO of the business. Click here to read more.               New Starters We are pleased to welcome six new starters to the group this month: Steve Fern – CFO Sam Green – Operations and Facilities Manager Joe Critchley – Haywood & Co – Semi Senior Accountant Luc Ramsden – Principle Finance – Commercial Finance Broker Troy Joseph – SMH Financial Services – Financial Planning Assistant Maria Goncharova – SMH BCL Accountants – Trainee Accountants Qualifications Well done to Josh Laughton who passed his final ACCA exams and now is a fully qualified Accountant! Mergers We are proud to announce that another firm has merged into the SMH Group and more news will follow soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smh"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSMH Group Internal News - January 2025 - SMH Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SMH Group Internal News - January 2025\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SMH Group Internal News - January 2025 - SMH Group\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SMH Group Internal News - 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