Cloud Accounting Updates: April

We’re Growing: 

We’re excited to announce that we’ve welcomed three new people to our growing team, all bringing with them experience with Cloud software and excitement about providing best-in-class service to our clients.  

Josh Jones, Senior Cloud Accountant

Becky Barker, Senior Cloud Accountant

Puiver Chan, Junior Cloud Accountant

We are hiring two new roles within our fast growing team: Semi-Senior Cloud Accountant and Junior Cloud Accountant. Anyone is welcome to apply for either role and the roles are open to any location. If you are interested in finding out more, please reach out to Lydia Brasted.

Service Offering Menu:  

We now have a menu of outsourced finance services we can provide to our clients, which should be recommended based on the conversations held at the point of scoping or as part of ongoing advisory. Services are as follows:  

Ongoing:  

• Processing purchase invoices 
• Processing sales invoices 
• Bank reconciliation 
• Payments for suppliers/payroll 
• Credit control 
• Management information 
• Budgets & forecasting 
• Digital support service 

One-Off: 

• Migration between accounting systems 
• Training on accounting systems  
• Build of bespoke reporting packages 

Please reach out to Lydia and the team with any queries about the above.   

Digital Accountancy Show: 

Becky has put together a summary of our recent visit to DAS below.  

The Cloud Accounting team and a few other members of Affinia took part in the Digital Accountancy Show (DAS) at the start of this month. This event showcases current and emerging apps and technology for finance professionals. This year there were 150 exhibitors and 8 stages of talks to choose from. 

It was so great to see what software is out there and what could potentially improve how we do things at Affinia. A couple of interesting talks we attended included “Why client payments is the most overlooked opportunity in accounting tech” and “How to use AI to empower your team (not replace them)”.  

The use of AI is an exciting and fascinating subject, and the Cloud Accounting team have started to embrace this change by looking to implement an AI-powered tool called Xbert. The DAS event provides the opportunity to meet new, like-minded people as well as those we currently work with. 

It was a fantastic 2-day event surrounded by technology, lasers and great people! 

If you would like to learn more about anything covered in this update, please reach out to Lydia Brasted.