Sophie Parkhouse is Technical and
Training Partner at Albert Goodman and is the firm’s first non-portfolio
partner.
Sophie
was re-elected to sit on the central ICAEW Practice Committee this year having
been initially elected in 2018. In 2021 Sophie was also appointed to the ICAEW
Financial Reporting Board. Although Sophie stepped down from the ICAEW SW
President role in May 2020, she has replaced this with the Chairing of the
ICAEW South West Technical Advisory Committee ensuring that the voice of those
in the South West is very much heard in relation to technical accounting,
narrative reporting, and audit matters.
From
a technical perspective, Sophie is the main point of contact for all financial
reporting technical queries, providing her excellent technical knowledge to the
firm and its clients. Sophie has also taken on the roles of Head of Privacy,
MLRO and Practice Assurance Principal in order to ensure that the firm is
compliant and that policies, procedures, and output are all of high quality.
Sophie gained much technical experience from her time as a financial reporting
manager at a national firm where she was part of a central team responsible for
all UK GAAP and IFRS queries for the whole of the UK client base, often
focussing on AIM of fully listed clients. This was the point at which Sophie
learned the importance of narrative reporting and took a particular interest in
this area.
In
her training role, Sophie is responsible for the ongoing development of our
overall CPD training strategy, delivery of internal technical training and
having oversight of the professional accountancy and tax training that we
provide to our people. Sophie holds a post-graduate certificate in education
which supports this role having previously been head of professional
accountancy at Richard Huish following a range of roles teaching the
professional accountancy qualifications.
Sophie
also leads on Albert Goodman’ ESG service line supporting businesses to develop
their sustainability strategy to include net zero plans as well as the
reporting requirements of Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) and
Energy Saving Opportunity Scheme (ESOS).