Ben Blackler
CA(PP) BCom BA
PARTNER
Ben is a chartered accountant with over 20 years’ experience helping small to medium sized businesses. Ben helps tease out your goals, be them personal or business related. He is results and strategy focused and is a true business adviser. You’ll often find Ben negotiating on his clients’ behalf for a better deal.
Ben helps set the direction of Blackler Smith & Co as a highly effective advisory firm to a wide range of businesses.
Blair Smith
CA(PP) BCA
PARTNER
Blair has over 20 years’ chartered accounting experience in helping business owners become more successful and more efficient. His affable nature and ability to speak ‘Plain English’ accounting makes him approachable and well respected by all ranges of clients.
Kelly Sinclair
CA BCA DipProfAcc
SENIOR CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT
Kelly Sinclair came to Blackler Smith & Co as an experienced, fully qualified chartered accountant in 2015.
Kelly has excellent problem solving and advisory skills and can work through a lot of detail when needed.
Kelly has significant experience with business purchases, assisting people with ‘due diligence’ (business assessments), training clients on Xero, forecasting and loan applications for businesses including franchises.
Clients tell us that Kelly has an easy manner, explains things well and can help you if you are new in business, or need help with something more complicated.
Hanlé Sloane
BCompt
SENIOR ADVISER
Hanlé Sloane came to us with her family from South Africa and she has 17 years’ accounting experience.
Hanlé loves the variety of her work and interpreting numbers. Her experience includes accounting for mining, construction, commercial property and agriculture.
You’ll find that Hanlé has a positive outlook on life and is a delight to meet in person.
Hanlé enjoys the outdoors and anything creative, especially working with her hands such manufacturing jewellery, painting and cake decorating.
Alexia Lazou
CA BCom
SENIOR CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT
Alexia Lazou is a fully qualified chartered accountant who has strong communications skills and an uplifting spirit.
Clients tell us they appreciate Alexia’s explanations on tax and general accounting items.
Alexia loves helping people make their business life easier and her favourite areas include monthly reporting, preparing and interpreting financial statements, and all things tax.
Alexia is very family orientated, has a twin sister and her hobbies include gymnastics coaching, spending time with children, and getting lost on the motorway.
Victoria Wilson
Certificate Secretarial & Office Technology
RECEPTIONIST/ADMINISTRATOR
Victoria is our front face at reception and will likely be the person to greet you when you phone or visit us in person. Victoria oversees the administrative side of the office, including integrating new systems and ensuring the smooth and efficient running of the office. Victoria is a mother of two boys and outside of work she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, holidaying and a nice Pinot Gris.
Our chartered
accounting team
Why do we always let our community know we are chartered accountants? Because we like to educate people who may have no idea that a person straight out of school can call themselves an ‘accountant’. Being a chartered accountant means that we are University qualified, belong to a professional body, have many hours’ worth of compulsory professional training each year and get audited on a regular basis. Our ‘kaitzen’ (continuous improvement) approach means in reality we are constantly upskilling and training ourselves in all areas of business.