About BWR
Beaches, Wine, Unmetered Parking - you can have all that in Hawke's Bay and start your career in Chartered Accounting.
The team at BWR understand that as well as anyone in this region and make sure their team members have the best of both worlds.
The practice is well recognised in the Bay, with its origins dating back to 1900. There's a good team environment with six directors and around 40 staff.
Graduates play a key role in the business and are provided training and development opportunities including mentoring and support through our training accreditation with NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants.
One of Hawke's Bay's best-kept secrets is the number and range of successful businesses located here, many of which are clients of ours. It's the type of place where ideas get actioned so you will also have the opportunity to work with new and developing businesses.
We offer a full range of accounting and tax services along with audit and some specialist services for our clients - big and small. We're a modern practice supported by modern technologies.
Our Vision
To be Hawkes Bay's leading Chartered Accountancy practice
As a Graduate what will you be doing?
As a graduate and aspiring CA you will be responsible for:
- Assisting clients with their day to day compliance tasks
- Preparation of annual financial statements and income returns
- Supporting a team focused on helping their clients achieve unlimited success
" Working at BWR was an ideal place to develop my technical and business skills required to become a Chartered Accountant. having direct client contact and being able to see a job through from the beginning to the end are great opportunities not often available in many practices."
What do we do
At BWR our aim is to provide our clients with advice when their businesses need it. We help our clients manage every aspect of their business, we establish a one-to one relationship with each of them and our advice will be tailored to their business.
At BWR we've developed our traditional auditing and accounting practices into innovative client-focused services. Our flexibility & adaptability ensures we can help our clients achieve their best results.
Below are the services that we offer to our clients. This list is by no means exhaustive but gives you a taste to the types of work someone who joins BWR will do:
Business Services
- Accounting Services
- Budgeting
- Business start-up
- Financial Planning
- Management Consulting
- Strategic planning
Tax and Audit
- Audit
- FBT
- GST
- Taxation
Specialist Services
- Estate Planning
- Rental Property
- Selling a Business
- Valuations
BWR Staff Profiles
Cory Janssen
- Born and raised in Hawke's Bay
- St Johns college from 1999 to 2004
- EIT first year full time in 2005 then in 2006 started working at BWR as a junior
- Play soccer for Napier City Rovers
- Jetski racing and wake boarding
Cory Janssen first attended the local Eastern Institute of Technology for a year before perusing his career in Accounting at Brown Webb Richardson (BWR) in 2006 as a junior accountant. As well as working and part time study he shares his passion with jet skiing, wakeboarding and scoring goals for his local soccer club.
"The first year was a huge learning curve for me, like learning a new language, but the staff at BWR are very understanding of the junior role and showed great patience in teaching me the art of accounting."
BWR have a vast variety of staff that are extremely knowledgeable in all different aspects of accounting. Being taught by these people has allowed me to gain experience, learn, and develop my skills far greater then any learning institute could ever do.
"By being in a medium sized firm you feel as though your work actually contributes to the success of BWR, rather then being another number in a larger firm". BWR has ample room to ‘climb the corporate ladder' and are always encouraging me to do so in my learning and providing challenging jobs to extend my experience and understanding of accounting.
I have succeeded in coming a long way in a short time and I owe my success to BWR for kick starting my career. In the space of 3 years, I have moved out of the junior role to a position where I manage a list of clients and assist in the section management. This position has allowed me to learn a different side to accounting by challenging me in my management and interpersonal skills.
Brown Webb Richardson's vision is to be Hawke's Bay's leading Chartered Accountancy practice, their values are professionalism, relationships, enjoyment, pioneering and to do our best. Being part of the BWR team has inspired me to work towards this vision and has allowed me to take on their values in my work and at a personal level.
BWR Staff Profiles
Regan Loach, BWR Associate
Born and raised in the hub of rural Mid Canterbury, Regan started his accounting career in Ashburton having completed his degree at the University of Canterbury.
In search of a warmer climate Regan shifted to the Hawke's Bay in 2004 to take up a role with BWR.
Regan enjoys working alongside start up and emerging businesses dealing with growing pains. His interest in IT stems from his desire to assist those businesses in making timely informed decisions. And having a team of extremely qualified IT specialists on board to assist really opens the doors of opportunity.
Regan also takes pleasure in the research and tax side of his role heading up the firm's Technical Advisory Group.
Hockey and cricket commitments fill up a healthy portion of Regan's spare time, but any excuse to explore the Bay's great outdoors will suffice.
Regan is also involved as part of the executive of the Hawkes Bay Young Professionals (HBYP). HBYP organises relaxed social and business networking events which have become extremely popular over the last twelve months, are a real hit with those both new and returning to the Bay.
Benefits
Flexible work hours- Free car parking onsite
- Time off for study
- BWR is an approved Training Organisation students wishing to qualify for membership of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants
- Lastly it's the Hawkes Bay - what more could you want; the weather, beaches and wine and the Magpies!
Culture
Fantastic working environment- Premises in the heart of Hastings
- Firm support and funding for a wide range of sports
- Monthly office drinks
- Great functions including a midyear and annual Christmas party!
Community support
- Sponsorship of Napier Old Boys Marist R.F.C.
