Helen is regularly quoted in the trade and national media on retail sales trends and other sector issues and also comments on industry topics in her bi-weekly column in Retail Bulletin.

KPMG is an associate member of the British Retail Consortium and Helen works closely with the BRC in a number of areas including the sponsorship and administration of the BRC-KPMG Retail Sales Monitor. She has focused on retail since 1995 and been a Partner since 2002. She works with many retailers across all sectors including food, clothing, furniture and department stores.

As Head of Retail for KPMG since December 2004, Helen has overall responsibility for leading and developing KPMG’s retail practice in the UK including development of multidisciplinary value propositions focused on the sector.

With many challenges facing the retail industry from changing consumer demands, slowdown of growth in consumer spending, margin pressures, property and branding issues, increasing legislation and regulation and managing growth it becomes a non-stop challenge to achieve strategic advantage in today's competitive retail marketplace.

KPMG understands these issues and works with some of the highest profile and innovative retailers - improving internal controls, undertaking global due diligence and assurance, implementing cost and tax saving ideas - to help achieve and sustain competitive advantage.