After celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2024, RMT Accountants & Business Advisors has moved into its eighth decade with a strong performance across all its service lines.
And with a new office now open in Hexham, it’s expecting to see this growth continue through the rest of this year and beyond.
Headquartered in Gosforth, RMT provides the full range of financial and business advisory services through its specialist accountancy, tax, medical and healthcare, corporate finance and restructuring teams, and works with companies of all sizes within and outside the North East, as well as internationally.
Its medical and healthcare division is the largest dedicated specialist team in the UK outside London and acts for well over 1,000 medical professionals, with client and staff numbers increasing substantially year on year.
RMT is also one of the first independent accountancy firms to set up its own IT/ technology business, RMT Technology, which helps clients across the UK to identify and implement hardware and software solutions which meet their specific business needs.
Two years ago, RMT became part of the Sumer Group, the UK and Ireland’s leading mid-market accountancy practice, and has since seen staff numbers growing steadily, both organically and through the three acquisitions it has subsequently completed.
Stephen Slater, managing director at RMT Accountants, says: “Our team has grown significantly over the last two years and we now have more 150 expert staff working under the RMT banner, with plans to increase this number still further.
“The specific SME focus that being part of the Sumer Group provides has added an extra dimension to the full range of services we can offer, and we’re seeing a tangible benefit of this approach in the number of new clients that we’re bringing on board.
“We’re continuing to recruit right across the business and at all levels to ensure we have the colleagues and resources we need to service this growing client demand.
“The positive, supportive working culture we’ve created here and the value we place on our colleagues as people is the core of RMT’s long-term success, and we’re finding that it’s a big part of our appeal to potential new recruits, alongside the opportunities we offer to do interesting client work with us.”
The next stage of RMT’s development will follow from the opening of a new office on Gilesgate in Hexham town centre as the practice looks to further increase its client base in West Northumberland and the surrounding regions.
It already acts for a wide range of agricultural, farming and contracting businesses in the North East, Scotland and North Yorkshire, as well as local SMEs across a range of other business sectors, and is retaining its existing offices at Hexham Mart alongside its new premises. Stephen Slater continues: “We believe it’s important for us to be part of the community that we’re serving and to have a first-hand understanding of the opportunities, challenges and issues facing local business owners and managers.
“Our existing Hexham team is highly skilled and extremely knowledgeable, and we’re expecting to see it grow in the coming months to support our local development plans.
“With the Big Four firms becoming ever more remote and smaller practices experiencing the pressure of an everincreasing regulatory burden, the opportunities for firms like RMT have never been greater.
“We believe that no other regional practice offers the breadth of services that we have available while also providing the level of personal involvement and collaboration that so often makes the difference to meeting clients’ commercial and personal goals.”
For further information on the range of client services and career opportunities provided by RMT Accountants & Business Advisors, please visit www.r-m-t.co.uk or call 0191 256 9500.