Stuttard joined Cooper Brothers in 1967, qualifying as a
chartered accountant in 1970 and becoming a
Fellow of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. He was a
Partner in
PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1975 to 2005 and has been an
adviser to the firm since then (including being deputy chairman of the advisory board). From 1981, he spent two years on secondment to
HM Cabinet Office advising the Central Policy Review Staff on nationalized industries and their privatisation. From 1983 to 1994 he was the chairman of the firm's Scandinavian group. He spent five years in China from 1994 to 1999 as
PWCexecutive chairman.
Shaftesbury Civic Society, Hon President (2013–2021)
Shaftesbury & District Historical Society, Hon President (2019–)
Author of ten books The New Silk Road – Secrets of Business Success in China Today published by John Wiley (2000) and Whittington to World Financial Centre - The City of London and its Lord Mayor by Phillimore & Co (2008), Travels in a Lifetime by John Stuttard (2015), A History of British McCalls by John Stuttard (2016), editor of The Worshipful Company of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales: The First Forty Years by WCCAEW (2017) and 'The Turbulent Quaker of Shaftesbury' by Hobnob Press (2018), The 20-Ghost Club: The Oldest Rolls-Royce Club in the World, 1949-2019 (2019), By Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost to the Isle of Skye in 1920 (2021), Pre-War Rolls-Royce Motor Cars with a Finnish connection (2021), Russia and Rolls-Royce – The First 25 Years (2021)