What is an accounting virtual assistant?

A remote assistant who handles the administration around an accountancy or bookkeeping practice — records and signature chasing, client onboarding, AML and ID collection, deadline reminders, portal setup and inbox cover — without touching the accounting work itself.

How much does an accounting virtual assistant cost in the UK?

£35 an hour ad-hoc with a two-hour minimum, or a monthly retainer from £280 for eight hours. There is no employer National Insurance, pension, holiday pay, equipment or notice period on top.

Do you do the bookkeeping itself?

No. This is practice administration and client-facing support — the chasing, coordinating and organising around the work. Accounting judgements stay with you.

How is client confidentiality handled?

Access is granted at the minimum level needed, under a written confidentiality agreement, with an NDA available on request.

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Accounting virtual assistant support for UK practices

An accounting virtual assistant handles everything around the numbers so your chargeable hours go on the work only you can do. Wise Resolutions chases records, onboards clients, sends deadline reminders and covers the practice inbox for UK accountants and bookkeepers — from £35 an hour, with no payroll, notice period or recruitment process.

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Where the hours disappear

Clients who send records three days before the deadline
Onboarding packs half-finished and unsigned
An inbox that takes an hour a day just to sort
Deadline reminders nobody has time to send

Peak-season capacity without a permanent hire

Practice workload is seasonal; salaries are not. A retainer scales up through self assessment and back down in the spring without a recruitment process or a redundancy conversation.

A written confidentiality agreement is part of every engagement, and a separate NDA is available before any access to client data is granted.

What gets handled

Support built for accountants and bookkeepers

Records and information chasing

Polite, persistent follow-up on missing paperwork, bank statements and signatures, tracked so you can see exactly who is holding things up.

Client onboarding admin

Engagement letters issued and tracked, ID and AML document collection coordinated, portal access set up and welcome sequences sent.

Deadline and filing reminders

Scheduled reminder runs ahead of self assessment, VAT quarters, payroll and confirmation statement dates.

Inbox and diary cover

Routine queries answered from your templates, meetings booked and the urgent items surfaced instead of buried.

Questions

Accountants FAQs

What an accounting virtual assistant does (and does not) do

An accounting virtual assistant is practice support, not a bookkeeper. The role covers everything that surrounds the compliance work: chasing records and signatures, issuing and tracking engagement letters, collecting ID and AML documents, setting up portal access, running deadline reminder cycles, triaging the practice inbox and keeping the client list accurate in your practice management system.

What stays with you is every accounting judgement — postings, reconciliations, adjustments, advice and anything that carries a professional opinion. The split is deliberate: the administrative half of a practice is the half that eats unbillable evenings, and it is the half that can be handed over safely with clear rules and a written confidentiality agreement.

Self assessment season without the January write-off

The pattern is the same in every small practice. Records arrive late, the chasing falls to whoever has a spare hour, and the last three weeks of January are spent on administration rather than fee work. A structured chase — a scheduled sequence of polite, tracked reminders starting in October — moves a large share of that workload forward by three months.

Hours flex with the season. A practice might run eight hours a month from April to September and thirty-two through December and January, then scale back again. At £35 an hour ad-hoc or £280 a month for an eight-hour retainer, that costs a fraction of a seasonal hire and needs no recruitment or redundancy conversation. Full numbers are on the pricing page, and the VA versus employee comparison breaks down the true cost of employing instead.

What is an accounting virtual assistant?: A remote assistant who handles the administration around an accountancy or bookkeeping practice — records and signature chasing, client onboarding, AML and ID collection, deadline reminders, portal setup and inbox cover — without touching the accounting work itself.
How much does an accounting virtual assistant cost in the UK?: £35 an hour ad-hoc with a two-hour minimum, or a monthly retainer from £280 for eight hours. There is no employer National Insurance, pension, holiday pay, equipment or notice period on top.
Do you do the bookkeeping itself?: No. This is practice administration and client-facing support — the chasing, coordinating and organising around the work. Accounting judgements stay with you.
How is client confidentiality handled?: Access is granted at the minimum level needed, under a written confidentiality agreement, with an NDA available on request.

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