Helomi Southwood

Helomi is a Partner at Black Maple, where she leads the firm's technical accounting and reporting practice. She advises on the application of IFRS, prepares and reviews financial statements, and manages group consolidations for clients across the firm's regions, including subsidiaries reporting into parents under a different framework.

She is a chartered accountant with over sixteen years of experience across audit and corporate finance, including listed company reporting. Following her training contract she moved into senior in-house roles, serving as Acting Chief Accountant and subsequently as Group Financial Manager of a listed group, with responsibility for preparing group and separate financial statements to statutory reporting deadlines.

Her work concentrates on the technical questions that determine whether a reporting cycle runs to plan: framework selection, the treatment of complex or non-standard transactions, consolidations arising part way through a period, and the quality of disclosure. She also advises on financial process design, budgeting and forecasting.