Heather is a chartered accountant with almost 20 years of experience working in business, charities and the public sector. She has held senior finance positions managing sales and purchase ledger, financial accounting, payroll, process improvements, VAT and statutory accounts.
She focuses on supporting charities with managing their finances. Her favourite type of work is taking new clients from being messy through to being clean and tidy, with reliable data and useful reports that generate meaningful conversations to help run the organisation well.
Alongside day to day support to charities Heather also works on projects including chart of accounts and reporting reviews, policy documentation and financial health checks.
Heather previously worked for Prostate Cancer UK and presented at the Charity Finance Group Annual Conference in connection with a project she led while working there.
With a degree in Economy and Business Management, Marco was running his own successful business for almost 15 years before co founding Contando.
In the last 5 years he has sharpened his skills in charity and not for profit accountancy and supports a variety of organisations with work varying from day to day bookkeeping and payroll to bespoke consultancy and liaison with auditors.
His focus is on management information and helping organisations to use quality reporting to analyse their performance and identify opportunities to improve and grow.
Marco is a keen advocate of using the right solution to solve each problem whilst not over complicating things and has supported clients with implementing bolt on apps to complement Xero.