Sophie is Compliance Director at Azets UK. Sophie is the newly appointed Chair of ICAEW Practice Committee (June 2023). She was re-elected to sit on the ICAEW Practice Committee in 2021 having been initially elected in 2018. In 2021 Sophie was also appointed to the ICAEW Financial Reporting Board. Sophie was ICAEW South West President in the year to May 2020 and has now replaced this role with the Chairing of the ICAEW South West Technical Advisory Committee. Sophie has a passion for technical accounting and practice management matters, narrative reporting and sustainability and ensures that the voice of those in the South West is very much heard.
Howard is the newly appointed Co-Chair of ICAEW Practice Committee (June 2023). Howard has been an Audit and Accounts Partner at Shorts Chartered Accountants for almost 20 years, based in Sheffield and Chesterfield. He is both a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Tax Adviser, and his clients include family companies, SMEs and charities, alongside partnerships and individuals.
Jonathan Armoogum is an Assistant Manager at Statura Group, where he looks after a diverse portfolio of UK and overseas companies across various sectors such as art, renewable energy, and sport.He began his career at a boutique firm in South London, gaining valuable experience with both corporate and private clients, before joining Statura in 2023. In addition to managing his portfolio, Jonathan heads up Statura’s Tirana office and chairs the firm’s Artificial Intelligence committee. He is a former member of the ICAEW South London & Surrey board and currently sits on the ICAEW London local network board.
Khiet is the Technical and Training Partner at UHY Hacker Young LLP. She has over 18 years’ experience working in the Technical and Training field mainly focusing on mid-tier audit firms. She is also part of the UK Mid-Tier Firms’ Technical Working group as well as attending the UK Mid-Tier Ethics Partners meeting and often attends the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW) discussion workshops, sharing her insights issues that impacts audit practices. Her focus is improving the firm’s Audit Quality through providing technical support and training to both trainees and qualified auditors on the International Standards on Auditing (ISAs), UK General Accounting Practice (UK GAAP) and UK adopted International Accounting Standards. However, she is also involved in developing the firm by sharing insights on important topics such as the firm’s strategy, IT solutions and recruitment.
Josh qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Lubbock Fine LLP, spending eight years in the audit team managing clients across technology, asset management, and property. He later moved into accounting technology, first developing compliance software for accountants in practice with Silverfin, then leading the continued development of Starling Bank’s Business Toolkit, a subscription platform for small businesses to manage their finances. Josh returned to Lubbock Fine LLP in 2023 as a Director in Business Services and divides his time between an asset management focused client portfolio and delivering technology change as part of the firms Digital Transformation Group.
Rachel is the MD of Just Audit, working alongside accountancy firms providing a pure audit service to mutual clients. She has served on the ICAEW Practice Committee since 2011 and is a committee member of the West Yorkshire Society of Chartered Accountants. Before Just Audit (launched 2006), Rachel worked in a small practice, a top 50 practice and KPMG – so has experience of all sizes of firms and clients.
Maria is an Executive Partner at Beever and Struthers. As the head of the firm’s Social Housing sector, she provides technical support to clients and acts as a sounding board on sector issues. Her client work is predominantly statutory audit in the social housing and charity sectors and her clients include Public Interest Entities (PIEs).
Ross has worked in external audit at EY since graduating St. Andrews university in 2016. Having reached Senior Manager, his focus is on delivering the largest audit engagements across the North West.
Leoni has been working at PwC Cyprus for over a decade, effectively managing large, diverse, and multicultural teams and clients. In addition to her role, she is an active member of the PwC Foundation, the PwC Inclusion and Diversity Committee and the SPEAKUP team. Leoni is also responsible for the learning and development curriculum for her department. Notably, she is the first international member to join the IPC.
Neil is a Partner at McMillan & Co LLP and provides a range of advisory, audit and other compliance services to the owner managed business, SME and charitable sectors. He trained and qualified at KPMG and as a Senior Manager worked primarily in Audit, but also with assignments in Transaction Services and Corporate Finance.Neil is a former President of ICAEW Lancashire & South Lakeland and was elected as Council member for the North West in 2021.
David is a sole-practitioner corporate tax specialist and in his second term as a member of the ICAEW Practice Committee, having been first elected in June 2018. He is also a member of the London Society of Chartered Accountants’ tax committee and the Small Practitioner Community advisory group.
Nikhil graduated from the London School of Economics and Politics with a 1st Class Honours in BSc Economics in 2010. He joined Goldman Sachs Fixed Income Currencies and Commodities Division within Investment Banking leaving as an Executive Director in 2016. Nikhil spent 3 years at PriceWaterhouseCoopers in the Audit and Assurance of FTSE 100 companies where he qualified as an ICAEW Chartered Accountant. In 2019, Nikhil joined his father’s accountancy practice Sage & Co based in Northwood as a Senior Manager. Nikhil is a board member of the ICAEW Editorial Advisory Committee, the youngest member of the ICAEW Practice Committee and an Advisory Member of the ICAEW Small Practitioners Community
Claire has 27 years’ experience in external audit and assurance. Based on the South Coast, she has a particular focus on retail, consumer products and media businesses, from privately-owned companies through to global listed groups.
Jeffrey trained with Robson Rhodes (now part of Grant Thornton) in Leeds and Moorgate. He joined Eacotts in 1976 and has been a partner since 1979. He is now the Managing Partner. Jeffrey is a member of the Thames Valley Branch of CIOT having chaired the committee in 1999/2001. During 2013/2014 and 2015/2016 he was President of ICAEW Chartered Accountants Thames Valley and is currently Treasurer.
After working within a medium-sized accountancy practice for 10 years, Suzanne started her own practice in 2001. She now heads a practice with ten other team members and more than 600 clients. Spicer and Co is an award winning practice of Chartered Accountants which has firmly established itself and is proactive in the local community. A key focus for Suzanne is technology and its impact on the profession. The practice is the only Gold partner with Xero in Dunstable. Suzanne is passionate about helping small businesses and also representing small accountancy practices at the ICAEW Practice Committee.