Dedicated accountants

A dedicated accountant, without the recruitment.

A pre-vetted accountant who works only for your practice, learns your templates and methods, and stays. No job ads, no agency fee, no three-month ramp before they are useful.

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What a hire really costs

In-house

Advertising: Job listing and agency fee
Time: Shortlisting and interviewing, by partners
Ramp: Weeks before chargeable output
On-costs: KiwiSaver, leave, ACC, desk, licences
Off-season: Paid through the quiet months too
Attrition: Run the whole cycle again

A dedicated seat carries none of these

Engagement tiers

Three ways to hold capacity.

The right one depends on how predictable your workload is. Most firms start part-time and move up once the rhythm is established.

Tier 1

Part-time dedicated

Around 20–80 hours a month

For a growing practice that needs predictable ongoing support without the risk of a full-time salary. Enough capacity to hold the weekly bookkeeping, the payroll runs and the GST cycle.

Same accountant every week
Set days or a set number of hours
Ideal for bookkeeping and GST rhythms
Scales up during the annual season

Discuss part-time

Tier 2

Most common

Full-time dedicated

Around 120–160 hours a month

One accountant working solely for your practice, during your business hours, fully inside your systems. In practice they behave like a team member who happens to sit somewhere else.

Works your hours, in your time zone overlap
In your Teams or Slack channels
Holds a defined client portfolio
Attends your team meetings if you want them there

Discuss full-time

Tier 3

Dedicated pod

Multi-seat, structured team

For established mid-tier firms that need real throughput. A structured team of preparers, a senior reviewer and a team lead who manages the queue so your practice manager does not have to.

Senior compliance accountants and preparers
A team lead owning allocation and deadlines
Bookkeepers folded in where volume needs it
One point of contact for your firm

Discuss a pod

The part that matters

They work to your procedures, not ours.

This is the difference between a dedicated accountant and a job queue. Your dedicated accountant follows your firm’s standard operating procedures, your workpaper index, your review checklist and your reporting style.

The intent is that a reviewer in your office cannot tell from the file who prepared it.

What a dedicated accountant adopts from your practice
Adopted	In practice
SOPs	Your documented procedures, followed step by step and kept current as you change them.
Workpaper index	Your reference system, so files slot into your document management without renaming.
Review checklist	Your checklist worked through and signed before the file leaves us.
Reporting style	Your statement format, note wording and schedule layout.
Query protocol	Raised the way your team prefers: batched, in your channel, at the point you asked for.
Deadline calendar	Your GST cycles, provisional tax dates and extension-of-time list.

Before they reach you

How we choose who sits on your account.

Vet 01

Technical assessment

Accounting fundamentals and applied New Zealand tax knowledge, tested rather than claimed.

Vet 02

Software competence

Practical work in Xero and MYOB, not a certificate. We watch them reconcile a real file.

Vet 03

Background and confidentiality

Identity and background checks, and a binding confidentiality and IP agreement before any access is granted.

Vet 04

Your interview

You meet the accountant before they start. If the fit is wrong, we put someone else forward.

Vet 05

Supervised first month

Every file reviewed closely by a senior CA while your conventions are still being learned.

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