Add a remote accountant to your practice

What is a remote accountant?

A remote accountant is a qualified accountant who works for your practice from another location, in your software, without being on your payroll. You get the output of an in-house team member — accounts, VAT, payroll and tax prepared to your standards — but we provide, manage and review the person, so there is no recruitment, no employment contract and no on-costs.

It is different from simply hiring someone who happens to work from home. A remote accountant through us comes with a dedicated manager, a review on every job and built-in cover for holidays and sickness. The work keeps moving whether or not any one person is at their desk.

Remote accountant vs hiring: the real cost

The salary on a job advert is only part of the cost of an employee. A qualified UK accountant on £45,000 typically costs well over £55,000 once you add employer's National Insurance, pension contributions, holiday and sick cover, software, a desk and training — and you carry that cost through quiet months too, plus recruitment fees and weeks of ramp-up.

A remote accountant turns that fixed cost into a variable one. You pay per job or per resource, with no on-costs and no idle time. For a fuller breakdown, see in-house vs outsourced accounting and how much outsourcing costs.

What a remote accountant does for your practice

A remote accountant can pick up as much of your production workload as you need: bookkeeping and reconciliation, VAT returns, statutory accounts, corporation tax and self assessment. They work in your software — Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, IRIS, TaxCalc and more — to your checklists, so the output looks like your own team produced it. You stay focused on clients, advisory and review.

Three ways to engage a remote accountant

How you use a remote accountant is up to you:

• Per job — a fixed price for a defined piece of work, ideal for overflow and year-ends.
• By the hour — an hour-bank for ad-hoc or variable work.
• Dedicated resource — a ring-fenced full-time remote accountant for your practice, billed monthly, who learns your systems and clients.

Most practices start per job and move to a dedicated resource once the volume is steady. See our pricing for how each model works.

How we vet, manage and review

Quality is where outsourcing succeeds or fails, so we build it in. Our accountants are UK-trained and experienced across UK GAAP, FRS 102/105, VAT and HMRC filing. A dedicated manager supervises your work, and every job is checked by a reviewer before it reaches you. You keep the final sign-off — nothing is filed without your approval. Data is handled under NDAs with encrypted, role-based access; see data security for detail.

Getting started with a remote accountant

Starting is quick. Book a free consultation, and we map your software, standards and turnaround needs. We agree a working model, sign NDAs and set up secure access, then start with a first job — often a year-end or a batch of returns — so you can judge the turnaround and quality before scaling up. Most practices are up and running within days.