Outsourcing (AAT)

What is Outsourcing?

In Outsourcing we service a wide range of clients from a variety of industries, working in collaboration with them to act as their finance team. The level of work differs from client to client, we handle all or some of the accounting processes for our clients depending on their needs.

Our core services are bookkeeping, accounting, reporting, forecasting, and analysis.

We work with a range of companies; from small owner-managed businesses to much larger privately owned and listed businesses both based in the UK and overseas. Many of our Outsourcing clients are also clients of other service lines within the firm; accounts and business advisory, audit and assurance, payroll, and tax so there are opportunities to work alongside our full spectrum of services with the focus being on an integrated approach.

Because of the regions we operate in we have many ambitious technology companies at the leading edge of their field. For example, life sciences, medical technologies, artificial intelligence, and complex IT solutions. As part of the outsourcing team, you are likely to work with these companies at various stages of their business life cycle, helping them grow by taking away the burden of bookkeeping, management reporting and compliance matters whilst allowing the business owners to focus on running their business.

Using cloud accounting technology, we automate our processes to provide real time information to our clients, enabling us to advise on critical business decisions in a timely manner.

Starting a career in Outsourcing

Your initial focus would be on understanding the underlying bookkeeping for our clients, such as bank reconciliations, purchase invoice processing and purchase ledger control, payroll journals, update Fixed Asset Registers, post depreciation, prepayments and accruals adjustments. You would build this knowledge up in your early career to the point of being able to prepare a set of management accounts. In your second and third years you would expect to get more involved in more complicated sets of management accounts with minimum support and ultimately working with Managers to provide advisory services.

You would learn how to interact with third parties, such as our clients and HMRC, and work alongside experienced seniors, managers, directors, and partners across all service lines.

What qualification will I achieve?

Working in Outsourcing you will study the AAT accounting qualification as part of a three-year combined Level 3 and 4 Apprenticeship. More information can be found here:

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