Meet the team
Mark Partridge FCA
Mark qualified at Ernst & Young after obtaining his degree at the London School of Economics. After five years in commerce he founded Chariot House with the express intention of helping SME’s understand and control their finances so they could grow and fulfil their potential.
Always a keen sportsman, Mark now devotes much of his spare time to watching his three boys play in various sporting events around the South East.
Mark likes to be involved in the local community raising money for charities through cycling events and helps to pollinate Brighton by keeping bees in the family’s urban garden.
Leanne Leverington ACA
Leanne manages the Chariot House London office where she and her team provide a full out-sourced finance function, as well as traditional accounting services, to many clients from ecommerce start-ups to charitable organisations.
She joined Chariot House as a trainee in 2010 after three years at Fisher Michael in Chelmsford.
With a keen eye for detail Leanne is responsible for ensuring consistency of procedure across Chariot House as well as being its Money Laundering Reporting Officer.
Always keen on fitness, Leanne has more recently taken to two wheels completing London to Brighton and London to Southend bike rides.
Graham Shorter
Graham’s areas of expertise include some of our larger audit clients, professional practices and a large portfolio of clients within the charity sector.
Graham Shorter joined Clark Brownscombe from school in 1973 and worked continuously in their Hove office from then until the merger with Chariot House.
Away from his desk, Graham is a fan of all sport, and in his over 70 athletic age group is one of the top 10 in the country in 5 sprinting and jumping events.
Kelly Henman
Our Head of Payroll, Kelly has been working in payroll for 25 years and has extensive experience in the ever evolving face of payroll and, having worked both in house for large multi site organisations and in bureau, she has a unique view of payroll from both sides of the desk. She joined Chariot House at the beginning of 2016 and has built an excellent service for over 100 clients processing an average of 4000 payslip per month.
In her free time she likes shopping, walking her 2 dogs and films and music and is a keen quizzer!
Ryan Smith ACCA
Ryan acts for a wide range of clients from small owner managed businesses to large multinational groups. He has specialist knowledge of motor dealers, solicitors accounts rules and the construction industry.
Ryan achieved an honours degree in business management from Oxford Brookes University and qualified with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). He uses these qualification to provide easy to understand business advice and support to his clients.
Outside of work Ryan likes to play football and watch musicals with his young children whilst also attending Cleveland Browns (NFL) games as often as he can.