This week's Yorkshire appointments: Featuring RSM UK, Victoria Plum & Unity Homes and Enterprise

This week’s round up of Yorkshire appointments includes RSM UK, Victoria Plum & Unity Homes and Enterprise. Read on to find out more…

Finlay Lamont, RSM UK

Leading audit, tax and consulting firm RSM UK has announced the promotion of Finlay Lamont to partner within the audit team. The promotion reinforces the firm’s commitment to invest in its people to drive growth from within its own ranks.

Finlay is based in RSM’s Leeds office and specialises in working with listed, international and large corporate businesses. He has over 11 years’ experience in audit, all of which he has spent at RSM. He first joined RSM as an audit assistant in 2012 and has progressed through the team to partner.

Finlay will continue to work with clients across a range sectors, bolstering RSM’s capabilities and commitment to working with the middle market. As partner, he will remain focused on working with listed businesses, delivering premium, high quality audit work and will also be responsible for the ongoing development and growth of the audit team.

Finlay Lamont, partner at RSM UK, said: “I am delighted to become a partner at RSM at such an exciting time for the business. My time here has been hugely rewarding and it’s great to be a part of a supportive and collaborative team which has helped me to progress from audit assistant to partner.”

Mike Thornton, RSM UK’s office managing partner for Leeds, said: “As our business continues to grow, Finlay will play an integral role in ensuring we can support the needs of our middle market clients – by delivering a premium service and helping to drive our growth plans locally, nationally, and internationally.”

Amy Bloomfield, Victoria Plum

Online bathroom retailer Victoria Plum has appointed a head of HR to support the delivery of the company’s people strategy. Amy Bloomfield joins the Doncaster-headquartered business from her role as HR business partner at Genting Casinos UK, where she helped deliver a HR function for more than 2,500 colleagues.

In her new role, she has responsibility further enhancing Victoria Plum’s HR strategy and engaging with the executive board on its implementation across the business. Founded in 2001, Victoria Plum employs around 400 people and has sales of £113m. In 2020, Victoria Plum took the decision for all its people to permanently work remotely.

Commenting on her appointment, Amy said: “The opportunity to take ownership of Victoria Plum’s HR function and create the environment for the ongoing delivery of excellent levels of colleague engagement is a very exciting one.”

Victoria Plum chief executive, Paul McClenaghan, said: “Amy is an excellent addition to the team. She has demonstrable success and will apply that knowledge and experience to our business as we look to further expand our business. We are very pleased to have Amy lead our HR operations and look forward to her working with the executive board to help shape the ongoing growth and development of Victoria Plum’s people strategy.”

Katherine Proctor, Unity Homes and Enterprise

Unity Homes and Enterprise has appointed Katherine Proctor as Director of Housing Operations. She joins the Leeds-based BME housing association after nine years at Yorkshire Housing where she held a succession of senior positions including head of repairs and investment, head of homeworks and building service manager.

A graduate of the University of Leeds and Leeds Beckett University, Ms Proctor is a former chair of the Chartered Institute of Housing’s Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Board. In her new role, she will provide strategic direction for the delivery of Unity’s housing services including tenancy management, responsive repairs, planned and cyclical maintenance, estates services, customer services and rental income.

Alongside its role as a landlord and provider of housing services, the association helps people to set up and run their own businesses and access employment, training education opportunities.

Cedric Boston, Unity Homes and Enterprise chief executive, said: “Unity is making great progress in delivering a transformational Corporate Plan rooted in our social purpose which was recently reviewed. Being the best performing and a well-regarded landlord is at the top of our priority and Katherine will be at the heart of this work.”

Katherine Proctor said: “I look forward to leading on the delivery of services that matter most to Unity customers and make a significant difference to people’s lives, particularly customers from the BME community who continue to face inequalities socio-economically and in housing provision.”

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