Temporary finance cover · Norwich and across the UK
Finance cover from next week.
No recruitment fee.
Lost your purchase ledger clerk? Bookkeeper off long-term? Our managed finance team takes over the work quickly, with no hiring, no training and no employment costs.
No long-term tie-in · You approve every payment · Every month reviewed by a UK accountant
Sound familiar?
A key person has left
Invoices pile up, suppliers start chasing and month-end slips. Every week the backlog gets harder to clear.
Hiring takes months
Advertising, interviews, notice periods, then agency fees that are often 15–20% of the first year’s salary.
One person, no backup
When your only finance person is on holiday or off sick, payments, reconciliations and reporting simply stop.
What we cover
Take one role off your plate, or hand us the whole finance function. You choose the scope.
Purchase ledger
- Invoice processing and coding
- Supplier statement reconciliations
- Payment runs prepared for your approval
Sales ledger and credit control
- Raising invoices
- Allocating customer receipts
- Chasing overdue accounts
Bookkeeping and month-end
- Bank and card reconciliations
- VAT-ready records
- Month-end close and journals
Management reporting
- Monthly management accounts
- Cash flow position
- Charts and plain-English commentary
Catch-up and rebuilds
- Clearing backlogs fast
- Rebuilding records from scratch
- Multi-company groups
Your software
- Xero and QuickBooks specialists
- Receipts and invoices digitised
- Other systems on request
How it works
1
A free 15-minute call
Tell us what’s piling up and which systems you use. We’ll tell you honestly whether we can help.
2
A fixed monthly price
We agree the scope in writing and quote one monthly fee. No recruitment fee and no long-term tie-in.
3
We take it from there
We do the processing, reconciliations and reporting. You approve payments and get a clear update every month.
Hiring vs. AccoPay cover
Hiring a ledger clerk
- About £29,700 a year all-in for a £26,000 salary, once employer NI and pension are added
- Recruitment fee, often 15–20% of salary
- Weeks of advertising, interviews and notice periods
- Training and supervision time
- Gaps for holidays, sickness and resignations
- Ongoing employment obligations
AccoPay managed cover
- One agreed monthly fee
- No recruitment fee
- Starts within days, not months
- A trained team from day one
- Holidays and sickness covered by the team
- No one joins your payroll
Based on purchase ledger roles advertised in Norwich in 2026 (£25,000–£27,000), 2026/27 employer National Insurance of 15% above £5,000, and the 3% minimum workplace pension contribution.
Why businesses trust us
UK-led and UK-reviewed
A UK accountant reviews every month’s work before it reaches you. You always have one named person to speak to.
Proper controls
We prepare payment runs and you authorise them. We never hold authority to move your money.
Regulated and insured
Services are provided by Accosmart Ltd, AML supervised by the IAB-Institute of Accountants and Bookkeepers, with professional indemnity insurance.
Secure records
Your documents are held in a UK-managed Microsoft 365 environment, with a data processing agreement as standard.
Proven on complex groups
We run the finance function for a multi-company group, including rebuilding its books from scratch.
Qualified team
AAT-qualified, IAB member, QuickBooks ProAdvisor and Xero Advisor, backed by a trained bookkeeping team.
Questions
Who actually provides the service?
Accosmart Ltd, an accounting and bookkeeping practice based in Norwich. AccoPay is how we offer temporary and ongoing finance cover. Your contract is with Accosmart.
Is this a temp worker?
No. It’s a managed service. Our team does the work under our own supervision, to a scope we agree with you in writing. No one joins your payroll.
How quickly can you start?
As soon as we have access to your systems and records and our client checks are complete, often within days.
Can you work in our software?
We specialise in Xero and QuickBooks. If you use something else, tell us on the call and we’ll say honestly whether it’s a fit.
What if we still want to hire someone?
That’s fine. We can keep the work running until your new hire starts, then hand over cleanly.
How do you protect our data?
We work under UK GDPR with a data processing agreement, and your records are held in a UK-managed Microsoft 365 environment with restricted access.
Tell us what’s piling up
Book a free 15-minute call. We’ll tell you honestly whether we can help and what it would cost.
Prefer to talk now? Call 01603 551686 or email wh@accopay.co.uk.
Office: 36 Ber Street, Norwich, England, NR1 3EW