Sonica Schoeman Director - Quality & Risk Management

BCom Accounting Sciences (Cum Laude) (UP), B Com Hons Accounting Sciences (UP), CA (SA)

Current Position

Sonica is a Director in the Quality & Risk Management Department specialising in IFRS.

Experience

Sonica studied a B Com Accounting at UP and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2005. She passed her degree with Honours.

She started her career with Mazars in 2019 after completing articles at a competitor firm where she also served in an IFRS technical capacity for 14 years.

She spent 3 months on secondment in Calgary, Alberta in Canada during 2008 working on the diagnostic phase of various entities’ first-time adoption of IFRS.

Sonica is also a skilled facilitator of internal and external IFRS training.

Her industries of expertise include: 

• Telecommunications
• Manufacturing
• Construction
• Retail & Consumer Products
• Mining & Metals
• Property companies (including REITs)

Sonica provides technical advice to the audit teams of our clients on various issues relating to IFRS. 

Her IFRS-related work involves the following:

• IFRS advisory services to clients
• Writing accounting opinions and discussion papers
• IFRS training material preparation and presentation, both internally and externally
• Drafting and reviewing of IFRS articles published internally as well as externally
• Drafting IFRS templates and guidance documents for internal use in the audit process
• Review of annual reports for IFRS compliance
• Reviewing consultations as part of the firm’s quality management on audit files
• Team member development
• Discussing and debating complex IFRS matters amongst team members
• Participating in the Mazars IFRS Committee, a global community of IFRS experts that provides guidance on topical matters, conclude on difficult IFRS matters, respond to IASB requests for information, etc.
• Serving as a member on various IFRS committees comprising of individuals from various accounting firms, such as SAICA sub-committees

Professional memberships

• SAICA (South African Institute of Chartered Accountants)
• IRBA (Independent Regulatory Board for Auditors)