Andy joined Botting & Co in 1998, his early career was in the banking sector but after switching to accountancy, he qualified and managed at another small local practice in Worthing.

He became a partner in 2000 and established himself as the firm’s IT partner and has been responsible for ensuring that the firm IT systems deliver the most efficient, accessible and relevant services to our clients. He also supplies direct IT and software advisory services to our clients and has specialisms in Sage and other Microsoft based products.

Andy is a general practitioner and specialises in small business comprising of sole traders, partnerships and owner managed companies. His client portfolio includes flat management companies, engineering business and personal tax clients. He also looks after the firm’s marketing and HR.

Andy’s main interest away from work is cricket and he has played for his local team, East Preston, since his teenage years. He still plays around fifty games a year, and is heavily involved in the running of the club, as club captain, coach and treasurer.

Andy’s other passion is music, having grown up in the “punk” era, and he sees himself as a young John Peel, always on the lookout for new bands, and regularly attending gigs in Brighton, Portsmouth and Southampton.

Andy Reeves FCCA - Director

Simon Wilkinson Bsc Hons, FCA, FCCA - Director

Simon qualified as a Chartered Accountant with medium sized, London based firm, Stoy Hayward in 1991.  He joined Botting & Co in 1992, when his extensive audit experience and expertise was invaluable in helping the firm comply with the new audit regulation regime that was introduced at that time.

He has continued this role as the firm’s principal audit and compliance partner and overseas all assurance work.  He also enjoys strong working relationships with his clients, specialising in providing services to owner managed businesses of all sizes and is particularly proactive in helping clients maximise profits while managing exposure to tax.

He is the firm’s principal tax specialist with particular emphasis on tax efficient business structures and profit extraction policy.

Outside of work, Simon is a fanatical fan of Arsenal football club and played himself until time caught up with him a few years ago.  He is now a keen tennis player and runs in long distance races up to half marathon level.

Natalie joined the firm in 2004 having gained significant previous experience in a number of other professional legal and financial organisations including a period of employment in the banking sector and a trust and probate department and through undertaking studies in the Accounting Technicians programme.

She is the firm’s payroll manager and oversees our client payroll bureau and advises client on a number of payroll and employment related issues.

Natalie has considerable experience in other practice areas and provides, accountancy, bookkeeping, VAT and taxation and IT services to a range of business and personal clients.

She enjoys skiing and travel and also has a keen interest in collecting and dealing in antiques.

Natalie Tilley – Senior Accounts Assistant & Payroll Manager

Jo qualified as a Certified Chartered Accountant in 2004 having started her career with Worthing based firm, Carpenter Box and completed her training with Arundel firm Po-Opt Accountancy, where she became the firm’s principal client and staff manager. She joined Botting & Co in 2007, when it acquired the client base of Pro-Opt Accountancy.

Jo greatly assisted with the merger of the two firms and quickly established herself as a vital member of our team.  She obtained her practising certificate in 2009 and is now our practice manager, handling her own portfolio of clients and supervising and training the firm’s junior staff members.

Jo has expertise in the field of audit and compliance and the provision of accountancy, management accounting and taxation services to smaller owner managed businesses and personal tax clients.

Jo enjoys fitness and exercise and completed her first marathon at the Brighton race in 2010.

Jo Hicks FCCA - Manager

Amanda Hubbard – Accounts Assistant

Hannah Grout – Accounts Assistant

Amber Naughton – Junior Accounts Assistant 

Amanda joined the firm in 2005, after completing her studies in Mathematics at Surrey University and a short period working in the hospitality sector.

She has subsequently obtained significant experience and technical skills in a wide range of practice disciplines, particularly accounts preparation for all types and sizes of business, payroll, VAT and business tax.   Amanda has specialised in the property management sector while preparing service charge accounts for flat management companies and service charge funds.

Amanda is currently studying for her ACCA professional exams.

Outside of work, Amanda plays competitive table tennis and enjoys reading.   

Amber is the youngest member of our team and joined the firm in 2009 after completing her A levels at college.

She is now studying for the Accounting Technicians exams and hopes to move onto to the professional ACCA exams in due course.

She has already gained significant experience in all the main day to day practice activities and provides technical support to our accounts, taxation, assurance and payroll functions.

Amber is an enthusiastic runner and completed her first 10K race in May 2010.

Hannah worked in the commercial sector, where she studied and passed her AAT exams before joining the firm in 2008.

She has subsequently made rapid progress through the ACCA exams and will shortly embark upon the final professional stage.

Hannah works closely with a wide range of clients, providing day to day assistance with their accounting, book keeping and employer related needs.  She has considerable experience of the Construction Industry Scheme and ensures that client’s comply with the related regulations and status issues.

Hannah enjoys reading, water sports and cycling. 

Jennie Cutts – Administrator

Jennie joined the firm in 2007 after a previous career in the legal profession, as a case worker and legal representative for a defence lawyer.

Jennie works part time and shares her role with Nicola Harvey.

In addition to providing administrative and secretarial support services to the firm, Jennie supplies company secretarial services to our portfolio of corporate clients and also assists with the operation of our client payroll bureau service.

Jennie’s interests include, cooking, walking her dog and sport.

Nikki completes our administration team using her experience and IT skills to manage the running of our reception area and to ensure communications with clients is efficient and prompt.

Nikki joined us in 2005 from Worthing based financial planning group Fry’s.

Nikki has two young children and she is heavily involved in fund raising activities at their school, where she acts as a school governor.

Nicola Harvey – Administrator

We are a well established but modern ACCA quality approved firm who have been supplying quality business and financial services to clients in South East England for nearly 60 years.

Based in the seaside town of Littlehampton, West Sussex, we are a partner led firm supported by an experienced team of technical and administrative staff, both fully and part qualified.  We also have access to a network of other professionals and consultants with a range of expertise to ensure that our clients are able to obtain a full range of specialist services to suit all their business and individual needs.

Due to significant investment in new offices and technology, we are able to provide an efficient, flexible and responsive service to our clients.  Our practice management system has been designed to ensure that our service is proactive and enables us to deliver useful and current information and solutions to our clients.

Our overriding philosophy is to develop a long term relationship with our clients, by providing the full range of business support services but also to move beyond the normal compliance role and help with business development and evaluation issues such as profit improvement, cash flow optimisation, business/asset protection and strategic planning.

Please call us for an informal talk with one of our partners and find out how what we help you to take your business forward.

For a free, no obligation initial consultation, call us on 01903 713508.