Thinking of hiring in-house?

What you pay
In-house hire: A full-time salary, plus employer's National Insurance, pension, recruitment fees and software.
With Bright Beany: A monthly fee for the time and skills you need, from £1,500 a month, or £2,500 with Fractional CFO support.

Time spent on the problem you hired for
In-house hire: Understanding profitability or producing monthly reporting might take 10 to 20% of their week, but you pay for all of it.
With Bright Beany: You pay for the work you need, at the level you need.

Accounts, tax, VAT and payroll
In-house hire: You usually still need an external accountant.
With Bright Beany: Included, and done by the same team.

Range of skills
In-house hire: One person's experience, at one level.
With Bright Beany: Bookkeeping through to senior finance thinking.

Holidays, sickness and people leaving
In-house hire: The work waits, or you start recruiting again.
With Bright Beany: The team covers it.

Managing the role
In-house hire: You recruit, set priorities and review the work.
With Bright Beany: We manage the team and the quality of the numbers.

Day-to-day presence
In-house hire: Someone in the business every day, close to operations.
With Bright Beany: A regular monthly rhythm, and on hand when you need us.

See pricing for what each package includes.

If finance isn't your background, it's hard to know what good looks like. You have to recruit for a role you can't easily assess, set the priorities and check work you may not be able to judge. A good hire can be excellent. A poor one can take months to spot, and the numbers suffer in the meantime.

With us, that responsibility sits with a team that does this every day, and you get the output: numbers you can trust and someone to explain them.

There comes a point where the workload justifies someone full time, and an in-house hire is the right call. It doesn't have to mean starting again.

One of our largest clients started with a Virtual Finance Department. As they grew, they brought in a senior finance manager. We still run everything else, we have gradually handed the strategic work over to him, and we support him in the role while making sure the numbers he relies on are right.

If that's where you're heading, we'll help you plan the role and work alongside the person you hire.