Bookkeeping virtual assistant UK, in local hours

Plans depend on hours, desks and coverage. Get a staffing plan within 1 business day. For orientation, UK virtual PA agencies publish £25 to £45 an hour, PayScale puts an employed UK assistant at £15.33 an hour, and offshore managed full-time staff are advertised at £900 to £2,000 a month against £3,000 to £5,000 for a UK-based hire (PayScale, SVA and 2026 agency price lists). Most UK ledgers need a part-time block quoted in GBP; the LedgerBPO reconciliation and month-end review is part of the same plan rather than a separate invoice.

No. Bookkeeping assistants are employees of the group working UK hours from our offices in Vancouver, Washington and a second office in Pakistan, and LedgerBPO's accountants sit in the same group. Your assistant works 8am to 6pm on GMT or BST inside your Xero or QuickBooks, so a query about a transaction is answered while you are at your desk. We do not have a UK office and we do not use freelancers. The filing itself stays with your UK accountant or agent, who knows HMRC and your history.

No. Your accountant or agent files the VAT return through MTD-compatible software; AssistBPO and LedgerBPO keep the records that make it a five-minute job. The assistant codes every transaction with its VAT treatment during the quarter, LedgerBPO reconciles and reviews the VAT position at the end, and the accountant receives a clean ledger and a short list of anything unusual. The same applies to corporation tax, self assessment and Companies House filings: prepared records from us, submissions from your accountant.

The assistant does the daily work: coding the bank feed, capturing bills and receipts, raising sales invoices, chasing debtors and answering the accountant's queries. LedgerBPO, the group's accounting brand, does the accountant's-eye work: bank and credit card reconciliations, VAT review, fixed asset and prepayment schedules, month-end close and management accounts if you want them. You see one plan, one team lead and one end-of-day report; the split is there so entry-level tasks and review tasks are done by the right people.

Xero and QuickBooks Online are the two we staff daily, with FreeAgent, Sage Business Cloud and KashFlow covered where a client already uses them. Receipt capture runs through Dext, Hubdoc or the platform's own app; invoicing through the platform or your job system; payments through GoCardless or Stripe feeds. Assistants hold an adviser or standard user seat in your file with their own login, so the audit trail shows who coded what, and your accountant keeps their own access unchanged.

Yes, on a schedule you approve. A statement on the first of the month, a friendly reminder a week before due, a firmer one at seven days overdue, a phone call at 30 days, and an escalation to you at 60 with the option to add statutory interest and compensation under the Late Payment Act. Promises to pay are logged, disputes are flagged so a genuine query is not chased as a debt, and the weekly report shows debtor days by customer. The assistant does not act as a collection agency and never threatens legal action.