About the founder

Executive finance experience, deployed at boutique scale.

John Pearson, Chartered Accountant and founder of JP Accountancy Services

John Pearson, CA

Founder & Business Advisor

Chartered Accountant

10+ years experience

$15m → $60m+ growth led

Team of 6 led

"JP Accountancy Services exists because building better finance functions is a different discipline to preparing accounts."

The practice is the product of a deliberate progression — from public practice into commercial finance, into finance leadership, into finance transformation, and finally into the founding of JP Accountancy Services. Each stage answered a question the previous one could not.

Public practice taught the technical craft: how the numbers should behave, and what good looks like when they don't. Commercial finance made those numbers useful — they stopped being a record of the past and became an input into the next decision. Finance leadership was where the operating reality took over: standing inside a growing business, watching how governance, systems and reporting either accelerate decisions or quietly hold them back.

The finance transformation work followed naturally. Leading finance across a construction and labour services group as it grew from roughly $15 million to over $60 million in revenue made the pattern clear: businesses don't outgrow their accountant, they outgrow their finance function. Rebuilding it — new ERP, new governance, new executive reporting — was the work that actually moved the numbers.

JP Accountancy Services exists to bring that same operating perspective to owners of growing businesses. The practice is built on the belief that finance is not a reporting layer sitting behind the business — it is part of how the business is run. Building better finance functions is what the practice is for.

Areas of expertise

  • Finance transformation and operating model design
  • Financial governance and control frameworks
  • Executive dashboards and board reporting
  • ERP implementation and data migration
  • Commercial finance and Virtual CFO partnerships
  • Tax and compliance (as supporting deliverables)

JP Accountancy Services partners with owners of growing businesses who want a finance function that keeps up with the business — and a straight-talking advisor to build it with them.

Finance, made commercially valuable. Turning numbers into insights.

Selected experience

A finance operating background shaping every engagement.

Commercial finance experience
10+yrs
Largest finance function led
$60m+
Finance team members led
6
Full ERP rebuild delivered
1ERP