A small firm, on purpose
We’re a team of eight chartered accountants and finance professionals — small enough that you’ll always speak to someone who knows you and your business by name.
Every client is assigned a team of two: your primary contact, who handles your day-to-day, and a senior accountant whose job is to keep your business moving toward its goals. You’ll have both on mobile, WhatsApp and email, with normal queries answered within 24 hours.
We don’t measure ourselves in chargeable hours. We measure ourselves in thank-you stories from people like you.
Nikolay Atanasov, ACA
Nikolay founded Shubraka to give Bulgarian business owners in the UK the accountant he would have wanted when he arrived: one who speaks their language, understands both tax systems and picks up the phone.
He qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG in 2011, auditing financial institutions, and then moved his focus to entrepreneurs and growing businesses. Today he leads the firm’s advisory work: tax structuring, real-time management information, funding, and the cross-border questions that come with running a business between the UK and Bulgaria.
He is approachable, commercially savvy and not afraid to get his hands dirty.
Outside work, Nikolay is very much a family man. At the weekend you’ll find him playing football with his kids, getting wet in a kayak or hiking through the wilderness.
e: n.atanasov@shubraka.co.uk
w: Shubraka.co.uk
li: uk.linkedin.com/in/niatanasov
Zhan Iliev
Zhan is a co-owner and manager of Shubraka and is often the first person new clients speak to. He joined the firm in 2021, when the accounting practice he founded and ran merged with Shubraka.
Zhan has worked in UK accounting since 2017 and holds a master’s degree in Customs and Taxation. He looks after his own portfolio of companies from start to finish, covering bookkeeping, VAT, payroll, annual accounts and self-assessment, and has particular experience with delivery, construction and valeting businesses. He also reviews the team’s self-assessment work.
Flexible and quick to respond, Zhan covers weekends and handles the firm’s most important client communication. Outside work he is a keen traveller who has visited more than 40 countries.
Petya Karova
Petya is an accountant with Shubraka and covers a diverse range of tasks including self-assessment tax returns, VAT returns, annual accounts, corporation tax returns and management accounts production.
Petya has over seven years of experience as an accountant and is ACCA part qualified.
Outside of accounting Petya has more than twenty years of experience, working in diverse administrative positions in the sea transportation and logistics environment.
Katerina Vaseva
Katya is an accountant with Shubraka and covers a diverse range of tasks including self-assessment tax returns, VAT returns, annual accounts, corporation tax returns and management accounts production.
Katya has over 10 years of experience as an accountant working with clients from a wide range of industries.
Alexandrina Minevska
Alexandrina is an accountant with Shubraka and covers a diverse range of tasks,
including self-assessment tax returns, VAT returns, annual accounts, corporation
tax returns, and management accounts production.
Alexandrina has more than ten years of experience in managing business travel
and events for corporate clients from the pharmaceutical, IT, and banking industries.
Professional at budgeting, credit control, administration, and pre-accounting.
Mihaela Stoyanova
Mihaela is an accountant through and through: she reads numbers the way others read music, and she still loves what she does. At Shubraka she looks after everything from self-assessment and VAT returns to annual accounts, corporation tax and management accounts. She’s happiest when a messy set of books finally falls into harmony.
A qualified bookkeeper (AAT AATQB) and part-qualified AAT accountant, she combines technical precision with a genuinely friendly approach. Clients value her for being sharp, determined and always easy to talk to.
When she’s not reconciling accounts, you’ll find her with her knitting needles, unless a good book or great company tempts her away first.
Angelina Dimova-Koseva
Angelina is an accountant with Shubraka and covers a diverse range of tasks including self-assessment tax returns, VAT returns, annual accounts, corporation tax returns and management accounts production.
Angelina holds a BA in Accounting and Audit and has over 15 years of experience as an accountant. She has worked her way up from junior accountant to Head of Finance for a medium size manufacturing concern before joining Shubraka.
Katerina Peeva
Katerina is an Accounting Intern at Shubraka, where she supports the team with bookkeeping, tax returns, VAT and day-to-day accounting tasks. She is currently studying Business Administration at the American University in Bulgaria, bringing curiosity, attention to detail and a willingness to learn to her role.
Outside work, she enjoys travelling, staying active and exploring new interests, always looking for something new to learn or try.
Kremena Yordanova
Kremena is an accountant with Shubraka and supports clients with VAT returns, Self Assessment tax returns, annual accounts, Corporation Tax returns, payroll and bookkeeping.
She has experience in UK accounting and tax compliance, working with software such as Xero and Moneysoft. Before moving into UK accounting, Kremena worked in banking and international payments, gaining valuable experience in financial reporting, reconciliations and payment processing.
She holds a degree in Economics, with a focus on finance and accounting, and brings a detail-oriented and practical approach to her work.