Michael Johnson

Managing Director | Finance and Tax

Ireland, UK

Michael Johnson is a Managing Director for Brewer Morris, as well as our Head of UK and Ireland.

As Head of UK and Ireland, he works closely with Managing Directors across all of The SR Group’s UK brands to strengthen collaboration, alignment and communication across the business and for our clients.

As a Managing Director for Brewer Morris, Michael leads our UK business across commerce, financial services and private practice.

Michael has an enviable track record of working with clients across FTSE groups, PE-backed businesses and international organisations. Michael has worked in recruitment since 2007 in both London and Hong Kong.

MICHAEL'S insights

What AI really means for finance hiring globally

  • Posted July 7, 2026
Contents Share Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping finance functions across all key sectors, influencing how finance professionals operate, how finance roles are designed and how organisations approach hiring. Automation and AI-powered tools are now embedded in everything from forecasting and data analysis to risk management and fraud detection. From machine learning models processing large datasets […]
Phishing scam

Important fraud alert: phishing scams impersonating Brewer Morris

  • Posted August 28, 2025
We’ve been made aware of a sophisticated phishing scam in which individuals are falsely claiming to represent Brewer Morris. This activity is entirely unaffiliated with our firm, and we are taking steps to address the issue.  If this happened to you, please let us know now. What’s happening Scammers are contacting people pretending to work for Brewer Morris and offering fraudulent job opportunities. They are […]

2024 UK tax practice market report highlights: Indirect tax

  • Posted December 13, 2024
Earlier in the year we released our UK tax practice market report and salary guide 2023-2024, highlighting the different areas of tax. Each area contained their own market update, including the current and forecasted challenges and opportunities, and the most popular portion, the salary data. Following on from the success of the report, we decided […]

Behind the numbers of our UK finance market report 2023-2024

  • Posted October 3, 2023
Our finance market report and salary guide 2023-2024 was released earlier this year, and has been well received by the CFO community. Whilst it addressed the big question of pay, lots of our recipients asked about the broader trends that were happening within the senior finance talent landscape. As a result we reached out further […]