Business Process Outsourcing

Get the finance function of a much larger company without the headcount. Our outsourced finance department handles everything from day-to-day bookkeeping to management accounts and board reporting, with virtual CFO support for strategy, fundraising and growth.

We plug into your business, automate the manual work, and give you reliable numbers and senior financial insight, typically for far less than the cost of building an in-house team.

Your outsourced finance department

We take on as much of the finance function as you need: bookkeeping, accounts payable and receivable, payroll, VAT, management accounts and year-end. You get one accountable team, one consistent set of numbers, and none of the recruitment, software and management overhead of doing it in-house.

It also solves a problem most growing businesses hit: the work spans three different skill levels. Transaction processing, monthly reporting and strategic finance need a bookkeeper, a management accountant and a CFO respectively, and no single hire covers all three well. Outsourcing gives you each at the level you actually need.

Virtual CFO support

Beyond the back office, our virtual CFO service gives you senior financial leadership on a part-time basis: cashflow and scenario planning, fundraising support, board and investor reporting, pricing and margin analysis, and the strategic decisions that need a commercial finance head. It is the expertise of a CFO without the six-figure salary. Our guide to when your business needs a virtual CFO covers the signals.

What you actually receive each month

• Reconciled ledgers and a closed month, on a fixed timetable rather than whenever capacity allows;
• Management accounts with commentary explaining what moved and why;
• An updated cashflow forecast and runway position;
• The KPIs that matter to your business, tracked consistently;
• A review call, so the numbers turn into decisions.

Speed matters as much as accuracy here. A pack delivered on the tenth working day changes decisions; the same pack six weeks later is history. Our note on the one-day monthly close explains how that timetable is achieved.

When outsourcing makes sense

It is usually the right call when you are scaling faster than your admin can keep up, when bookkeeping and reporting are eating the founder time that should go into the business, when you need CFO-level insight but cannot justify a full-time hire, or when a key finance person has left and you need continuity rather than a recruitment process.

It is a less obvious fit if your transaction volumes are very low, in which case straightforward bookkeeping plus periodic advice is more proportionate, and we will tell you so. Our guide to finance BPO for scale-ups works through the decision.

Systems, automation and transition

We work with your existing stack, Xero, QuickBooks, Dext and the payment and payroll tools around them, and layer in automation to remove manual re-keying. Onboarding follows a defined sequence: review the current position, agree the chart of accounts and reporting pack, run a parallel month, then take over. That is deliberately unglamorous, because the risk in outsourcing finance is always the handover, not the steady state.

How it fits with advisory

For growth-stage businesses this pairs naturally with our business advisory service: the outsourced function produces the reliable numbers, and the advisory layer turns them into forecasting, fundraising and valuation work.