IT Solutions & Cloud Accounting in London

Most IT consultants understand technology; far fewer understand what the finance function actually needs from it. As chartered certified accountants advising businesses since 1991, we approach IT from the outcome backwards: reliable numbers, efficient processes, compliant filings and information that supports decisions.

Our IT consulting covers systems strategy and selection, process review and automation, integration between finance and operational systems, and independent advice when vendors are telling you what suits them rather than what suits you. Because we are not tied to any single software house, our recommendations are driven by fit — the size of your business, your sector, your budget and where you are heading.

Cloud accounting has transformed how businesses keep their books: bank feeds that import transactions automatically, invoices raised and chased from your phone, and real-time figures you and your accountant can both see. It is also the foundation of Making Tax Digital (MTD) — HMRC's requirement for digital record-keeping and software-based submissions, already mandatory for VAT and extending to income tax self assessment for sole traders and landlords over the qualifying income thresholds.

We help you choose and implement the right platform — Xero, QuickBooks or Sage — and make it work properly:

• Selection advice based on your business, not a reseller commission
• Setup and migration of your existing data, chart of accounts and opening balances
• Bank feeds, invoicing, expense capture and app integrations configured correctly
• MTD-compliant VAT and income tax submission processes
• Training for you and your team, with ongoing support when questions arise

Done well, cloud accounting does more than satisfy HMRC — it gives you numbers you can actually run the business on.

When a business outgrows standalone accounting software, an ERP system brings finance, inventory, purchasing, projects and operations onto one platform. ERP projects are notorious for overrunning — usually because the implementation is led by technicians without a deep grasp of financial processes and controls.

We support ERP implementations across Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Fusion, JD Edwards and Microsoft Dynamics, contributing where finance insight matters most: requirements definition and fit-gap analysis, chart of accounts and reporting structure design, process mapping and controls design, data migration and reconciliation, user acceptance testing and cutover, and post-go-live stabilisation. We can act as your independent client-side adviser alongside a systems integrator, or deliver focused workstreams directly.

The goal is an ERP that closes the books faster, embeds controls rather than bypassing them, and produces reporting the board trusts from day one.

Off-the-shelf software does not fit every process. Where a genuine gap exists, we support bespoke software development — from automating a manual reporting workflow or building integrations between systems that refuse to talk to each other, through to custom applications for industry-specific needs. Requirements are specified with the discipline of accountants: defined inputs, controlled processing and outputs that reconcile.

Through managed services, we take ongoing responsibility for the systems and processes you would rather not run in-house — application support, routine maintenance and monitoring, user administration, and managed finance-system operations. You get predictable service and cost, and your team gets its time back.

Cloud enablement is about moving to the cloud deliberately rather than by accident. We help businesses plan and execute migrations of finance systems, file storage and core applications to cloud platforms — assessing what should move and what should not, managing the migration, controlling subscription sprawl, and making sure access, backup and cost controls are in place from the start.

Cybersecurity is inseparable from any of this. Finance functions are prime targets: invoice fraud, payment diversion, phishing and ransomware all aim squarely at the money. Our cybersecurity work focuses on the controls with the highest real-world payoff — multi-factor authentication, access and privilege management, patching discipline, secure payment authorisation processes, backup and recovery testing, and staff awareness training. We assess where you are exposed, prioritise fixes by impact, and help you implement them.

UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act apply to virtually every business that holds personal data — customers, employees, suppliers or marketing contacts. Compliance is not a one-off certificate; it is a set of working practices that must survive an ICO enquiry or a subject access request arriving on a Friday afternoon.

Our GDPR implementation service takes you from uncertainty to a defensible position:

1. Data mapping — establishing what personal data you hold, where it lives, why you process it and who you share it with
2. Gap analysis against UK GDPR requirements, with a prioritised remediation plan
3. Documentation — privacy notices, records of processing activities, retention schedules, and data protection policies your staff can actually follow
4. Processes for handling subject access requests, data breaches and third-party processor due diligence
5. Staff training and periodic reviews so compliance keeps pace with the business

Most established businesses hold their data hostage in silos — the accounting system, the CRM, spreadsheets on someone's desktop — with no single version of the truth. Our data management services address this at the root: defining data ownership and quality standards, cleansing and de-duplicating core records, and establishing governance so data stays reliable.

Where reporting needs demand it, we design and implement data warehousing and integration: consolidating data from finance, sales and operational systems into a structured warehouse, with automated pipelines replacing the monthly ritual of copy-and-paste. The payoff is reporting produced in minutes rather than days, and figures that agree with each other because they come from one governed source.

Once your data is trustworthy, it can start earning its keep. We build business intelligence and data visualisation solutions — management dashboards and self-service reporting that turn ledgers and transactions into clear pictures of margin, cash, customer profitability and performance against budget. Because accountants design them, the numbers tie back to the accounts rather than drifting into wishful thinking.

For businesses ready to go further, we advise on predictive analytics, AI and machine learning applied to practical finance problems: cash flow forecasting, demand planning, credit risk and customer churn, and anomaly detection that flags unusual transactions for review. We are deliberately pragmatic — starting with well-defined use cases where the data supports a genuine answer, rather than chasing technology for its own sake.