Our HR services for accountants cover the full employee lifecycle, from the first hire to the day someone leaves. We draft compliant employment contracts and study-support agreements, handle recruitment for hard-to-fill roles, and build staff retention plans that keep qualified accountants on your team. When issues arise, we manage disciplinary and grievance cases calmly and lawfully, protecting both the individual and the practice. We support TUPE when you buy, sell, or merge, and we keep your health and safety obligations covered through a dedicated portal. Every service links back to a specialist team, so you always speak to a real adviser who understands accountancy firms and the way practices work.
We provide complete support with safer recruitment, DBS checks, contracts, and inductions. All services are tailored through our outsourced HR services for care homes.
We ensure compliance with mandatory training, supervision, and career development as part of our tailored HR management services for senior care homes.
We provide professional HR advice to manage disciplinary and grievance cases fairly, helping you resolve issues quickly and prevent them from escalating.
We offer proactive guidance on health and safety policies, workplace risk management, and staff wellbeing to keep your care home safe and compliant.
We deliver accurate payroll management, rota planning, and attendance tracking, taking the pressure off managers and keeping care home operations running smoothly.
We provide up-to-date contracts, policies, and processes that comply with employment law and meet Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards.
We deliver HR documentation and audits designed to keep your care home fully prepared for CQC inspections.
A trusted partner providing ongoing HR management support, giving you expertise and peace of mind without the expense of a full-time HR manager.
More accountancy firms are handing HR to specialists, and for good reason. The economics, the compliance risk, and the sector’s unusual people pressures all point the same way. Here is why outsourced HR for accountants makes sense.
Accountancy practices face people pressures that generalist HR providers rarely grasp. Recruitment for accountancy firms is fierce, because qualified candidates are scarce and hold multiple offers. Post-qualification retention is harder, as rivals chase your newly qualified accountants the moment they finish their exams. Trainee and study contracts must balance funding, exam leave, and clawback fairly, or disputes follow. Busy-season wellbeing suffers when hours climb and morale dips. And growth brings partner exits and practice mergers, each reshaping contracts and teams. We understand these challenges and build practical, sector-specific solutions so your firm stays stable and compliant.
Getting started is simple and low-risk. We begin with a free HR audit, tailor the right support, and become your long-term partner, including a smooth switch from any current provider.
Duncan is a CIPD-qualified HR leader with 24+ years’ experience across retail, automotive, manufacturing and financial services. His expertise includes HR leadership, restructuring, acquisitions, employee relations and regulatory change. He has held senior roles with Sytner Group, Porsche GB and Dollar Financial Group and founded Harwood HR Solutions.
Zoe is a CIPD-qualified HR professional with extensive experience in HR, operations and training. She helped grow a business from 4 to 250+ employees and has expertise in acquisitions, TUPE, restructuring, recruitment, employee relations and FCA regulatory change, with a strong record of delivering HR projects without litigation.
Charlotte is a qualified HR professional with experience across people planning, organisational change, performance, talent and employee relations. She progressed to HR Business Partner at The Money Shop, supporting senior leadership through structural and financial change. Her expertise includes TUPE, redundancies, sickness absence and HR support across multiple sectors, including social care.
Most firms lack a full HR team, and the cost of in-house HR is hard to justify. Outsourced HR for accountants gives you a qualified HR consultant, employment law advice, and day-to-day support for a fixed monthly fee, so partners spend time on clients rather than paperwork or disciplinary matters.
It depends on the model. For most accountancy firms, retained HR support starts from £50 per month for unlimited advice, while pay-as-you-go suits occasional needs with no contract. Both cost far less than an in-house HR manager, whose salary alone usually exceeds £35,000 a year, before recruitment, training, and software.
Recruitment for accountancy firms is fierce, and post-qualification retention is even harder once staff qualify. Add trainee and study contracts, busy-season wellbeing, partner exits, and practice mergers, and you have pressures generalist providers rarely grasp. We tailor HR support to each of these sector-specific challenges.
Yes. We draft compliant employment contracts for every role, plus study-support agreements for trainees that set out funding, exam leave, expectations, and fair clawback terms if someone leaves early. We write everything, tailor it to your practice, and keep it up to date as employment law changes.
Yes. Mergers, restructures, and partner exits often trigger TUPE, and getting it wrong can lead to claims. We manage the process end to end: information and consultation, contract harmonisation, communication, and redundancy where needed, so staff transfer lawfully and your practice stays protected throughout the change.
We tackle staff retention at the root: fair pay and progression, better onboarding, study support, workload planning for busy season, and stronger management. For post-qualification retention specifically, we help you keep newly qualified accountants with clear career paths and engagement plans, so rivals find them far harder to poach.
Absolutely. Disciplinary and grievance issues feel bigger in a small practice, where everyone knows each other. Our HR for small business support guides you through each step lawfully and discreetly, from investigation to outcome and appeal, protecting working relationships and shielding partners from the tribunal risk of getting the process wrong.
It is simple. Book a free HR audit, and we will review your current setup, contracts, and any live issues. If you are switching providers, we handle the transition and paperwork for you. Then we agree on the right support level and get started, usually within a few days.
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