A SENIOR management restructure has been carried out by North Yorkshire accountants and business advisers JWP Creers as part of the latest stage in its long-term growth strategy.

With offices in York and Selby, the firm has appointed the head of its corporate finance team Tony Farmer to the position of company chairman.

Alongside the Mr Farmer's new role. JWP Creers' former managing partner and head of the audit team, Nigel Clemit, who joined the firm in 1987 and became managing partner in 2009, has been appointed chief executive.

In their new roles Mr Farmer and Mr Clemit have been tasked with working together to devise a strategy to develop all aspects of JWP Creers.

The subsequent strategy will be delivered by Mr Clemit with the help of a newly-created executive group which will also comprise partners Russell Smith and Jill Campbell; marketing manager, Sue Espiner and practice manager, Charlotte Granger.

MrFarmer, who joined the firm as a partner in 2003, said: "JWP Creers has grown significantly through new business gains and attracting top-quality staff since the banking crisis and this re-structure and executive group reflects our long-term vision and commitment to delivering it in a modern, dynamic way."

Mr Clemit said: "Recent growth has seen us strengthen the firm by adding talented new staff at every level from associates to trainees and this initiative reflects our determination to capitalise this to create the best possible future for our current and prospective clients and staff."

JWP Creers, one of North Yorkshire’s longest-established professional services firms, has offices at York Science Park, in Heslington and Park Street, Selby. The firm has seven partners and 80 staff and operates throughout the UK with most of its clients in the north.

The current firm was created in 2006 with a merger between Selby-based JW Pickles, which was founded in Leeds in 1922, and Creers which was established in Coppergate, York, in 1908.