Hire a remote bookkeeper (UK)
A vetted remote bookkeeper who works as part of your team — without the payroll.
What's included
Bring on a remote bookkeeper without employing one. Our vetted UK bookkeepers work in your clients' software on day-to-day bookkeeping, reconciliation and VAT — job-based or as a dedicated resource, reviewed by us.
A bookkeeper on demand
Extra bookkeeping hands, per job or dedicated.
Day-to-day bookkeeping
Transactions, coding, journals and accruals.
Reconciliation & VAT
Feeds reconciled; MTD VAT prepared.
Cover built in
Holiday and sickness cover included.
Why practices hand this to us
You keep the client and the relationship. We do the production work — inside your software, reviewed before it reaches you.
The upside
- A bookkeeper's output without the employment cost.
- Cover busy periods and staff absence.
- Consistent monthly turnaround.
- Job-based, hourly or a dedicated resource — you choose.
What a remote bookkeeper does
A remote bookkeeper keeps your clients' books clean and current from another location, working directly in your clients' accounting software. Day to day, that means processing purchase and sales transactions, coding them correctly, posting journals and accruals, reconciling bank, card and payment feeds, and keeping everything VAT-ready. The result is that your accountants start every VAT return, set of management accounts or year-end from clean, reconciled data — instead of untangling a messy ledger first.
Remote bookkeeper vs hiring a bookkeeper
Employing a bookkeeper means a salary plus employer's National Insurance, pension, holiday and sick cover, software and a desk — a fixed cost you carry all year. A remote bookkeeper gives you the same clean books for a variable cost: pay per job or per resource, with cover built in and nothing to recruit. For variable client volumes it is usually far cheaper, and far quicker to start. We compare the two in detail in virtual bookkeeper vs employee.
The software we work in
We come to your data, not the other way round. Our remote bookkeepers are experienced across the packages UK practices actually use, and work in your clients' files under your access:
Because we work in your clients' cloud, the data stays in your environment rather than being exported.
Keeping books clean and VAT-ready
Good bookkeeping is a discipline, not a one-off. We reconcile to a schedule that suits you — weekly, fortnightly or monthly — clear suspense and unreconciled items, and query anything that does not fit rather than guessing. Clean books make VAT returns and management accounts painless and remove nasty surprises at year-end. See also outsourced bank reconciliation for feed-level detail.
Security and access
Your clients' data is handled under NDAs, with encrypted, role-based access that you grant and revoke. Bookkeepers only see the clients they are working on, and because we work inside your cloud software, data stays in your environment. Everything is handled to UK GDPR-aligned processes — more on our data security page.
How to get started
Book a free consultation, tell us which clients and which software, and we set up secure access and agree a reconciliation schedule. Start with one client or a batch of overflow, then scale as you see the results. Most practices are running within days.
Example: bookkeeping overflow for a busy quarter
A practice with a large book of VAT-registered clients hits a quarter where two staff are on leave at once. Rather than let bookkeeping slip and put the VAT returns at risk, they hand the overflow to a remote bookkeeper. Working in each client's Xero under the practice's access, we bring the ledgers current, reconcile the feeds and flag a short query list for anything unclear. The VAT returns are prepared from clean data and filed on time, and when the staff return, the books are exactly where they should be.
An illustrative example of how a typical engagement runs, not a specific client.
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