Private Equity or Venture Capital

PE or VC backed companies

We've supported investor backed businesses through funding rounds, acquisitions and exits for more than two decades — you need the same reliable back-office behind you, whichever stage you're at.

Services for PE or VC backed companies

Six disciplines, helping you exceed your investors' expectations.

Every discipline below is staffed by specialists in that area, not generalists spread across all six. Each one is broken down service by service, we agree what's covered before you commit — from finance and HR through to customer operations.

Finance & accounting

The numbers side of the business — trust in the fundamentals allows you to focus on strategy and creating shareholder value.

Accounts payable

  • Supplier invoice receipt, processing and coding
  • PO matching
  • Approval chasing
  • Supplier query management
  • New supplier setup
  • Payment-run preparation
  • Supplier statement reconciliations
  • Month end creditor control account reconciliation

Accounts receivable

  • Customer invoicing and recurring billing
  • Credit-note processing
  • Cash allocation
  • Payment chasing and credit control
  • Customer queries resolution
  • Customer account reconciliations
  • Month end debtors control account reconciliation

Treasury

  • Bank transaction posting
  • Daily bank reconciliation
  • Payment preparation
  • Direct-debit administration

Management accounts

  • Balance-sheet reconciliations and supporting schedules
  • Intercompany reconciliations
  • Fixed-asset register maintenance and processing
  • Depreciation processing

Expenses

  • Expense claim processing and receipt checking
  • Policy compliance checks
  • Corporate-card reconciliation
  • Approval chasing
  • Employee queries

HR & people operations

The people engine behind the business — efficient HR operations that help you scale, perform and create value.

Employee administration

  • New starter administration
  • Employee record maintenance
  • Contract and document administration
  • Employee changes
  • Leaver processing
  • Reference requests

Payroll administration

  • Payroll input collection and timesheet processing
  • Payroll checking and change preparation
  • Employee payroll queries
  • Payroll-provider liaison

Leave and attendance

  • Holiday administration
  • Sickness records
  • Absence tracking
  • Return-to-work administration

Benefits and pensions

  • Benefit provider administration and liaison
  • Employee benefit queries

HR Reporting

  • HR KPI reporting and dashboards
  • Organisation charts
  • Employee-data reporting

Compliance administration

  • Right-to-work documentation
  • Mandatory training tracking
  • Employee-file completeness checks

Procurement

The buying side of the business — better control of spend, suppliers and commercial terms protects margins, improves EBITDA and cash flow.

Purchase order management

  • PO creation, amendments, distribution and closure
  • Specification collation
  • Request tracking
  • Approval routing
  • Open-PO reporting

Supplier management

  • Supplier onboarding
  • Supplier-data maintenance
  • Documentation collection
  • Insurance/certification tracking
  • Supplier-query handling

Sourcing support

  • RFQ preparation, quote collection and comparison
  • Bid administration

Contract administration

  • Contract database maintenance and document management
  • Renewal tracking and notice date monitoring
  • Pricing schedules

Procurement reporting

  • KPI reporting including but not limited to supplier spend reports and price-variance analysis
  • Category and price-variance analysis

Facilities management

Making your physical operations work harder — controlling property and facilities costs, reducing operational friction and supporting a scalable business.

Helpdesk

  • Receive facilities requests and categorise tickets
  • Assign contractors and track completion
  • Communicate updates

Contractor Management

  • Contractor quote, booking and visit coordination
  • Documentation checks
  • Invoice verification

Maintenance

  • Planned-maintenance scheduling
  • Reactive-maintenance administration
  • Maintenance logs

Property Administration

  • Lease document administration
  • Rent and service-charge records
  • Utility account administration

Compliance

  • Inspection scheduling
  • Certificate tracking
  • Fire-safety administration
  • Equipment/service records

Customer operations

The daily interactions that shape the customer experience — delivering responsive support that strengthens retention, protects revenue and supports growth.

Customer services

  • Email enquiries
  • Telephone enquiries
  • Live chat
  • Standard customer queries
  • Case creation

Order management

  • Order entry and confirmation
  • Amendments
  • Order-status updates
  • Cancellation processing

Customer onboarding

  • Account creation and initial document collection
  • Onboarding communication
  • Welcome packs

Complaints

  • Complaint logging and acknowledgement
  • Investigation administration
  • Escalation
  • Response tracking

Account administration

  • Customer-data maintenance
  • Contract details
  • Pricing updates
  • Account changes

Service management

  • Ticket management
  • SLA tracking
  • Escalation
  • Customer updates
  • Closure administration

Retention support

  • Renewal reminders
  • Cancellation requests
  • Customer feedback
  • Churn-reason capture

Reporting

  • KPI reporting including but not limited to contact volumes, response and resolution times, SLA performance, complaint trends.

Talent acquisition

Helping you build the team to deliver the growth plan — finding the right people, reducing time to hire and creating the capability needed to scale.

Vacancy administration

  • Vacancy setup on job boards, internal website and ATS administration
  • Job-description formatting
  • Approval administration

Application processing

  • CV screening against defined criteria
  • Application acknowledgement
  • Candidate categorisation
  • Rejection administration

Interview management

  • Interview scheduling
  • Calendar coordination
  • Candidate communication
  • Interview packs
  • Feedback chasing

Offers

  • Offer-letter administration
  • References and background-check coordination
  • Right-to-work documentation

Onboarding

  • New-starter information collection
  • HR handover and induction scheduling
  • Equipment requests

Recruitment reporting

  • KPI reporting including but not limited to source of hire, vacancy pipeine, recruiter activity and cost per hire.