Payroll, Bookkeeping and Outsourcing

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The ever-increasing burden of financial reporting can distract directors and business owners from managing their core business. Outsourcing these functions to specialist professionals allows you to concentrate on what you love and what you do best. We recognise that each client is different and we offer a service that is tailored specifically to your needs. Completely flexible in our approach, some of our clients may simply require a short-term solution whilst others require an ongoing service.

Our specialised staff are able to provide you with solutions across the following disciplines:

Getting payroll spot-on is the only option. Our Payroll & Pensions team will manage the end-to-end process of employee starters, ongoing payment and leaving. We won’t just process the numbers that you provide; we’ll exercise our expertise, professional scepticism and query anything that doesn’t look right. Our Information Sheet sets out a full list of our integrated Payroll and Pensions services. Critically we will use the latest fintech technology to ensure that your employees are paid on time and that income tax and social security rules are applied correctly, including advice on the optimal tax treatment of employee benefits and expenses. Just before payday, we will send the final payroll calculations for your approval and then provide you or your employees with payslips.

We also provide CIS payroll to all types of businesses that work in the construction industry within the UK.

As your accountant we are privy to your financial and payroll records and ideally positioned to provide you with a comprehensive and cost-efficient pensions service. Our fully integrated Payroll & Pensions service will help you navigate, step-by-step, the change in law on workplace pensions. Our experts will act as your point of contact with the Pensions Regulator and help ensure that you fulfil all your staging date duties, as well as your ongoing responsibilities with Automatic Enrolment.

When an overseas company hires in the UK- through a subsidiary, a branch, or in some cases with no UK entity at all- a full set of employer obligations arises with the very first employee. UK employment law is midway through its most significant reform in a generation, with day-one rights already in force and further changes rolling through 2027. Since 1979 we have helped international businesses become UK employers correctly the first time, so that the people who carry your expansion are hired, paid and protected without a compliance misstep. We assist with:

Before the first hire. We help you understand your responsibilities as a UK employer before you commit to them: whether to employ through a UK entity or directly from overseas; employment status and the off-payroll working (IR35) rules if you plan to engage contractors; employment contracts and the written particulars that must be issued from day one; right-to-work checks; National Minimum Wage, holiday entitlement and statutory leave; and employers’ liability insurance.

Getting set up. We register your PAYE scheme with HMRC, establish a compliant workplace pension scheme, and build your onboarding process- offer documentation, starter checklists and new-joiner data capture- so every hire lands correctly in payroll from their first day. Payroll runs on our cloud platform, with electronic payslips and secure employee self-service.

Running payroll and staying compliant. We operate the PAYE scheme and deal with all PAYE matters: real-time submissions to HMRC, statutory sick, maternity and paternity pay, student loans and attachment orders, payrolling of benefits, and year-end reporting. On workplace pensions, we run a comprehensive and cost-efficient pensions service.

The cross-border dimension. This is where overseas employers most need a specialist: internationally mobile employees splitting duties between the UK and home country; short-term business visitor arrangements with HMRC; social security coordination; and equity awards.

Alongside our corporate services for international businesses, this makes the UK the easiest jurisdiction on your map rather than the most demanding one.

Clients often say that they spend around 20% of their time on bookkeeping and you’ve probably got other things you’d rather be doing. Our bookkeeping services in North West London can help you spend less time on receipts and invoices and more time on your revenue-generating activities. With your books in good order, we can work with you in the cloud on management accounts, Key Performance Indicators and a host of other interactive reports to help enhance the marketability of your business.

Our dedicated VAT team helps business owners plan ahead, improve cashflow, save money and stay compliant. Aside from registering your business, ensuring VAT is correctly accounted for and submitting your returns, we can carry out a VAT health check to give you the assurance that your business is efficient or to reveal cost saving opportunities. We regularly advise clients on:

• property transactions
• transfer of a VAT registered business
• overseas trading
• transactions which fall outside the normal trading activities for a business
• litigation cases, acting for your business in tax disputes and reviewing documentation

Incorporating the VAT returns bookkeeping process with your accounts production means that our accountants can provide you with quarterly management accounts. It also means that filing of your annual accounts can take place on time, every time.