Forward begins 2023 with a new hire

After a successful 2022, we are delighted to welcome Amy Hochuli to the Forward team as Corporate Finance Analyst.

After earning a 1st class degree in Accounting & Finance from University of South Australia, Amy moved to the UK and started her career with Equals Money, a publicly listed payments fintech. At Equals she began her Chartered Accountancy qualification, while gaining experience working in a number of different areas from internal reporting to financial control. Her responsibilities varied from performing the daily safeguarding of client funds, profit transfers, to month end accounts.

Looking for a new challenge and a more client facing role led Amy to join us here at Forward. And while she finishes her accountancy exams, she’ll be straight in at the deep end working on projects and meeting clients.

As a keen horsewoman, Amy also expands our teams’ extra-curricular activities. We can now add polocrosse and showjumping to motocross, running, golf, snooker and football to name a few!

Sarah Moores, Director, commented, “After another good year we felt the time was right to grow the team again to ensure we can maintain the quality of the service we provide to our clients.”

Rob Dukelow-Smith, Director, added, “We are a small team and growing is all about finding the right skills and personality. With Amy we feel we have someone who is keen to learn and grow with us, and we look forward to introducing her to our clients.”

Amy Hochuli commented, “It’s an exciting time to join Sarah, Rob, Amie and Will. I am really looking forward to the new challenges ahead and developing my career in a new direction.”

Last year was another busy year for the Forward team, with business sales for FG Curtis, EOL IT Services and Touchdown PR, management buyouts for HTG and EuroResin, and acquisition support for Functional Gut Clinic among others. And while businesses undoubtedly face challenges in 2023, now with a team of five, we remain committed to supporting our clients on achieving their goals – whether that is a business sale, structuring and completing a management buy out or making a strategic acquisition.