Overflow capacity that comes back finished, not half-done.
Client books taken to trial balance, VAT returns prepared for your review, and the internal reports your team rebuilds every month automated in Power Query. Based in Leeds, working with practices across West and North Yorkshire and remotely across the UK.
One client file, fixed price, no commitment beyond it.
The problem with most overflow help
Capacity is easy to buy and hard to trust. The common failure is not that the work is late — it is that it comes back looking complete when it is not. Balances that tie to nothing. Unknown items coded to suspense so the trial balance balances. A VAT return you cannot sign off without redoing the workings yourself.
At that point you have paid for the work twice: once to the subcontractor, once to the senior who fixed it.
What I do differently is boring and deliberate: nothing is guessed. Anything I cannot resolve from the records you gave me goes on an exceptions schedule with the evidence I do have and the specific question I need answered. The trial balance you get back is one you can actually rely on, and the list of open items is explicit rather than buried.
What I take off you
Client books to trial balance
Transaction coding, bank and card reconciliation, supplier and customer ledger tidy-up, control account agreement. Delivered as a reconciled trial balance with supporting workings and an exceptions schedule.
VAT return preparation
Nine-box workings prepared from the coded ledger, with the treatment applied to each category shown and every excluded item listed. Prepared for your review and your submission — I do not file.
Backlog and catch-up runs
The client who has not touched their records since last year. Multiple periods brought up to date in one pass, so you are not quoting the same cleanup job every quarter.
Internal reporting automation
Practice reporting that gets rebuilt by hand each month — WIP and recovery, fee analysis, job profitability, deadline tracking — turned into a Power Query model that refreshes from your raw export.
Spreadsheet repair
The workbook that everyone is slightly afraid of. Broken references, hardcoded overrides, silent row drops on paste. Rebuilt so the numbers are traceable and the errors are visible.
Month-end close support
Accruals and prepayment schedules, fixed asset registers and depreciation runs, intercompany agreement, aged debtor and creditor listings — prepared as review-ready schedules with journals set out.
The questions practices actually ask
Will you approach my clients?
No, and it is written into the engagement terms as a non-solicitation clause covering the engagement and the period after it. Your client relationship is the thing you are protecting; I am not interested in competing for it.
Whose name does the work go out in?
Yours. I work white-label by default. Nothing I produce carries my branding unless you ask for it, and I do not contact your clients directly unless you introduce me and ask me to.
What software do you work in?
Whatever you already use — I work in your file, your chart of accounts, your naming conventions, rather than exporting everything into a system of mine and handing back something that has to be re-imported.
How does the data get to you?
Through your own portal or shared drive wherever possible, so the records stay in your environment. Data stays in the UK, is kept only for as long as the engagement and its record-keeping require, and is never fed into any system that trains on it.
How is it priced?
Fixed price per client file or per job, quoted after I have seen a sample of the records. For scheduled overflow through a busy period, a day rate is usually simpler. Either way the number is agreed in writing before I start, and it does not move unless the scope does.
What is out of scope?
I work to trial balance. Final accounts, the filing itself, and anything requiring a regulated opinion stay with you — that is your side of the line and I do not cross it.
How a first job usually runs
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You send one file
A single client, ideally a slightly awkward one. Records as they actually are — I would rather see the mess than a tidied sample.
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I scope it back within two working days
Fixed price, delivery date, and an explicit list of what I can see is missing. If the records are too thin to do properly, I say so then rather than halfway through.
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The work comes back review-ready
Reconciled trial balance, supporting schedules, exceptions list, and a short note on anything that will bite you next period.
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You decide whether there is a second job
No retainer, no minimum, no notice period on the first engagement. If the first file is not right, there is no second one and that is a fair outcome.
Send me one file
The fastest way to find out whether this is useful is a real client file rather than a conversation about capacity.