Our Team

Named the UKs Most Inspiring Accountant and featured in the book The World’s Most Inspiring Accountants for his dedication to helping clients grow and develop their businesses. Despite his ‘youthful good looks’, Neil has over 30 years of experience advising businesses throughout the UK. His proactive advice ensures that our full range of business clients continue to prosper through even the toughest times. A former WRU International Rugby Referee Neil applies the insights and principles from the pitch to great effect in business (without a whistle!). Off the pitch Neil has gained further expertise by training with some of the world’s leading business and marketing experts, including, Keith Cunningham, Tony Robbins, Michael Heppell and Peter Thompson.

Using this unique blend of skills and experience to quickly identify the challenges for business in any industry, he guides you to better performance. Ensuring you gain greater reward now, more time to enjoy it and the security of a prosperous future.

As an active member of the South Wales Chamber of commerce committee and through many years in business and sport, he has developed a very strong network of links with banks and financial institutions, to utilise fully for your benefit.

As a Dental and Health Care Specialist he has guided our dentists, doctors and pharmacists from university to practice ownership and management, right through to succession planning and retirement. At each stage ensuring they maximise opportunities to get the rewards their hard work deserves.

Sian joined us as graduate 9 years ago and quickly qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant. She is now an active member of the local ACCA committee. Through the last decade Sian has gained a reputation as a business development expert and also a dental specialist. She has been invited to speak on accountancy at several ACCA events as well as on business development at the 2015 Dentistry Live event in London. Sian became a company director on 1st November 2013.

Joining her first practice straight from school 18 years ago, Johanna has trained from the grass roots up. After working in variety of practices she joined us as a Chartered Certified Accountant in 2010 and successfully completed her Chartered Taxation exams, taking over as our senior tax advisor and a senior client manager. Johanna is on the local Chartered Institute of Taxation Committee, where she keeps up to date with the latest tax trends. She also attends specialised tax courses to ensure that she gives the most proactive tax advice available. Johanna became a company director on 1st November 2014.

Starting off in an admin support role in 1996 Janet has shaped the systems which underpin the standards of expertise and service in the practice. She has acted as HR manager for the last 5 years, gaining her Level 5 CIPD associate membership in Human Resource Management along the way. She actively recruited the brightest, service orientated team possible, whilst providing them access to the professional training to complement this. Through this team focussed development programme, all our Client Managers are ACCA qualified, our Accounts Technicians are AAT qualified or ACCA part qualified and our payroll manager is Payroll Alliance qualified.

After flirting briefly with Tax, Sharon found her niche in payroll 14 years ago. As our in house Payroll guru her experience and excellent organisational skills have ensured that the busy department runs smoothly. Further enhancing these skills, with a Payroll Alliance qualification, Sharon keeps up to date with changes and really is the go to person for payroll advice.

Graduating with a Degree in Accounting from Cardiff University, Rhys moved easily into his first practice. He now has roughly just over 10 years of accounting experience. A Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) qualified team member, Rhys is a core contact for many of our clients, and well on his way to having been at Lewis Ballard for 10 years, a core member of our family.

Rachel is a family member of the Lewis Ballard team on multiple levels. Ballard born, she is a social force of nature, having personally known many of our clients for years. Having received a degree in Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics, Rachel is a powerful addition to the team. Despite only having started at the practice in 2011, Rachel’s existing client knowledge, and her innate nature of charming clients, makes her one of the faces of Lewis Ballard.

Graduating with a first class honours Degree in Accounting Hannah has quickly progressed through her professional exams and is now one of our Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). Hannah’s sharp brain, sense of humour and willingness to take on a challenge have seen her become an integral part of our team. Whilst providing exceptional service and support to a small portfolio of her own clients, Hannah also assists the directors by acting as a further point of contact for their clients too.

Lee is THE accountant. He knew at a young age that numbers worked for him, and at 12 years old already knew he wanted to be an accountant. Having graduated in Accounting and Finance from Plymouth University, and going on to get a Masters in Accounting and Finance from Cardiff University, Lee is a font of number knowledge. ACCA qualified, and with 10 years of experience, Lee is always ready and able to help.

With an abundance of technical experience in accounts, Sam is AAT qualified (Association of Accounting Technicians). The back bone of the Accounts production department, she gives training and support to the Accounts Technicians ensuring that the work they produce is technically accurate and up to our exacting standards
Over recent years Sam has become a Cloud Accounting expert and somewhat of a Xero Guru. So much so that she is invited to present on their behalf to local businesses. She’ll use this expertise to find bespoke cloud accounting solutions for your business and will provide the training and support you need to use it to your best advantage.

On top of this Sam also manages the practice workflow ensuring you receive your accounts on time every-time. One very busy lady

An ACCA qualified Account Technician, Zoe has 6 years of experience making her the standard in quality results. The first stop for many clients with Xero queries, Zoe is always ready to help out, a technical detective, and a troubleshooting genius.

Rebecca’s first job was as an apprentice in an accountancy firm. So good they wouldn’t let her go, she now has over 5 years of experience within the field. AAT qualified and aiming for ACCA, Rebecca is constantly striving to improve herself. Her attention to details comes as a transferable skill from being a semi-professional level violinist.

Ffion worked her way to a 1st grade degree from Aberystwyth University in Accounting and Finance. Wasting no time, she moved straight here from university, quickly establishing herself among our more veteran team members.

Kojo is an Accounting and Finance graduate from Swansea university, but during his time here has far developed to become an experienced member of the team. Working towards becoming ACCA qualified, Kojo has built and built his responsibility, becoming a pillar of the AT team, and an invaluable member of the Lewis Ballar team.

Katrina makes the numbers work for her. With an Accounting degree from Cardiff Metropolitan, she is also a qualified personal trainer. Having a diverse skill set, she brings her experience and ability into everything she does. Disciplined, Katrina has proved time and again that she is able to produce consistently high quality results under any kind of workload.

Tom is an out-and-out go-getter. Having graduated from Cardiff and Swansea with a combination of Accounting and Finance, and Biomedical Science, he’s an excellent learner and strong individual. Currently tackling ACCA accreditation, Tom won’t stop until he’s mastered all the challenges he faces. When not in work he pushes his body and mind with marathon running, not yet having come across a wall he can’t break through.

The money lady, Jo is a finance wizard. With 10 years of finance experience, with over half of that at Lewis Ballard, Jo is the person to talk to about money. Detail oriented, hard working, ever driven, Jo sets the standard we’ve come to expect here. On top of her responsibilities, Jo is AAT qualified and well on her way to her own ACCA qualification.

Having graduated from Bath Spa university with Creative Writing and English Literature under his belt, Sean is more interested in words than numbers. Not afraid of new experiences, Sean lived abroad for a year in the colds of Scandinavia. Though much of the written work we put out goes through him, Sean is also heavily involved in making sure that our materials always looks great!

If anyone is the smiling face of Lewis Ballard, it is Karyn. A high yellow through and through (ask her, she’ll tell you all about it at length), Karyn brings her years of Customer Service experience forward to make sure our clients feel as looked after as they deserve to be. With 30 years in finance, with a keen insight into personal loans  and mortgages, Karyn knows her stuff. The only thing she’s done for longer is competitive sport, which is where her unbreakable team spirit comes from.

Olivia is our youngest team member, although don’t let her age fool you! She quickly established herself as a competent and capable payroll assistant. Out-shining many experienced payroll ‘experts’. An extremely bright, lively team member, Olivia’s consistently high levels of accuracy, patient friendly support and maturity have won the trust of our payroll clients. Olivia is currently studying towards her professional payroll qualifications and everything indicates that she has a long and successful career ahead of her.