Our expertise speaks volumes

Bringing certainty to the uncertain

Wherever our clients are in their journey, they know and trust that we are always there. Guiding, advising, solving, listening, understanding. We are an extension of their office – highly regarded and valued. Our clients stay with us generation after generation – we continue to unravel complexity and bring certainty to their worlds.

Our values

We exist to understand our clients’ needs, and their business, making it our absolute focus to foresee, plan for, and navigate challenges and complexity. Guiding our purpose - in fact everything we do - are three important values that sit at our core.

Seek the solution

Our focus as a firm will always be to solve the challenges for the clients we serve. We’re hungry to find answers, deal with change confidently and are absolutely focused on doing the best we can for them. That’s why we encourage a proactive and autonomous approach to how we do business.

Solve together

We know that the answer may not always be obvious, so we adopt an open and collaborative environment with our colleagues, co-professionals and clients and in order to find it together. At the centre of everything we do is the belief that better knowledge leads to better outcomes. We’re inclusive, supportive and open minded as a team.

Be curious

People are at the heart of what we do. Taking interest in what’s important to our clients and our team is in our nature. We don’t stand still or become stagnant - we encourage new thinking and new ideas to move us forwards. We’re eager to keep learning as this allows us to grow.

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Seek the solution
Our focus as a firm will always be to solve the challenges for the clients we serve. We’re hungry to find answers, deal with change confidently and are absolutely focused on doing the best we can for them. That’s why we encourage a proactive and autonomous approach to how we do business.
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Solve together
We know that the answer may not always be obvious, so we adopt an open and collaborative environment with our colleagues, co-professionals and clients and in order to find it together. At the centre of everything we do is the belief that better knowledge leads to better outcomes. We’re inclusive, supportive and open minded as a team.
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Be curious
People are at the heart of what we do. Taking interest in what’s important to our clients and our team is in our nature. We don’t stand still or become stagnant - we encourage new thinking and new ideas to move us forwards. We’re eager to keep learning as this allows us to grow.

Our people

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As a ﬁrm, we depend on having great people. People who are able to solve the complex challenges of our clients, and keep up with the pace of how we operate.

Meet the team

Our story so far

Founded in 1888, Dixon Wilson is one of the leading firms of Chartered Accountants based in London.

1888

Nathaniel Dixon and his son John put up their plate at 28 Basinghall Street. The Institute of Chartered Accountants was formed 8 years earlier.

1895

Nathaniel Dixon’s nephew, James Wilson, joins the partnership. Total annual fees are about £2,000. Many early clients are textile or general merchant businesses.

1899

Nathaniel Dixon is drowned in the shipwreck of the “Stella”. His son John also dies in the same year.

1900

Sydney Tubbs joins the partnership. He is with the firm for 33 years before retiring and is known as an expert accountant and ahead of his time.

1919

On demobilisation, Harold Gillett MC joins the partnership. He is with the firm for 48 years and develops a reputation as the leading “Company Doctor”. He later becomes Lord Mayor of London.

1930

Kingsley Tubbs joins the firm after rowing in the winning boat for Cambridge three years running. He wins the Gold Medal in his final accountancy examination (many similar prizes have been won by staff over the years) and retires after 45 years with the firm.

1971

James Spooner, a partner of the firm, is put in charge of The Beatles partnership as a result of an action filed by Paul McCartney.

1988

Dixon Wilson turns 100 and leaves the Basinghall Street area for the first time, moving to Rotherwick House just east of St Katherine Docks.

2008

After 20 years in Rotherwick House, the firm returns to the City and settles in Chancery Lane.

2024

Dixon Wilson has changed a lot since 1888, but we are still as focused as ever on guiding our clients through the challenges they face.

Founded

Nathaniel Dixon and his son John put up their plate at 28 Basinghall Street. The Institute of Chartered Accountants was formed 8 years earlier.

Join us

School Leavers

Our Tax Apprenticeship Programme puts you ‘on the job’. It’s real client work with support and structure built in. You’ll follow a pathway towards professional tax qualifications, ATT & CTA, with our senior staff to guide you. Be part of our private client team.

Interns

How do you find out if a career in accountancy is for you? We offer summer internships to discover more about the profession – a hands-on, exciting opportunity to learn new skills, make future contacts and experience a nurturing team environment. Build your CV.

Graduates

We’re a firm committed to bringing on the next generation of talent – within a nurturing, supportive environment. Our ACA graduate training programme will immerse you in a wide range of accounting and tax work. The opportunity is here.

Experienced Staff

Our ethos at Dixon Wilson? You never stop learning. However you’d like to progress or develop your career, we champion our peoples’ individual ambitions in all areas of accountancy both corporate and private. Continue your journey.