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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.