I’m a partner at Evelyn Partners leading the Business Outsourcing Services (BOS) team in Southampton and Birmingham. This does indeed make me an accountant, but wider than this I would classify myself as a business advisor to my portfolio of ambitious high-growth companies.The work that my team undertakes ranges from a fully outsourced finance function, doing the bookkeeping, management accounting and reporting at board level; all the way through to the year-end statutory accounts.I am a firm believer that no two clients are the same and shouldn’t therefore be treated as such (one size does not fit all!). I always take a holistic view and create a tailored service that meets the client’s needs now and flex this as those needs evolve over time. A great example of this is one of my clients has a junior staff member in-house who undertakes certain bookkeeping tasks and we dovetail around this. A big part of our role is to support and train this member of their team to enable them to undertake more advanced tasks over time, and our role will flex alongside this.When it comes to the statutory reporting we deliver an efficient process filing promptly after the year end whilst the events of that financial period are still fresh in everyone’s minds, and to free us all up to look forward rather than spending too long looking back.I am also the National Cloud Accounting Lead Advisor because I truly have a passion for cloud based accounting applications and how they can create a truly effective business managed based upon real time financial facts rather than hunch. There are some great products on the market and again I believe in taking a holistic view when discussing software solutions with clients, looking at the current and future needs of the business.I would say overarching all of this is my relationship led approach, which ultimately defines the services my clients receive day to day. I am always on hand to answer queries as they arise, offering advice throughout the year, it is always far better to discuss things as they crop up than in retrospect months later. I am always happy to speak with any ambitious entrepreneurs who would value advice on all aspects of accounting, cloud accounting software, business plans and forecasts, statutory year-end accounting, and all things scale-up related.