Recruiting a senior accountant for your practice
Takes jobs from trial balance to a review-ready pack and supports the rest of your offshore team.
Typical weekly tasks
- Full year-end packs from trial balance
- Review of junior work before it reaches you
- Management reporting
- Complex VAT
- Client query handling
- Support for the rest of your offshore team
- A first review on jobs before they reach a partner
Building a team? Pair a senior with a bookkeeper for day-to-day processing or an accountant for year-end work.
Software
Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, FreeAgent, Dext / Hubdoc, IRIS / CCH / Taxfiler where available. They work in your systems through a named user account.
Who it suits
Practices building an offshore team of two or more, or partners who want a first review done before work reaches them.
A good fit for UK accounting, bookkeeping and tax practices with roughly 2 to 50 staff, and for UK businesses with an in-house finance lead who needs more capacity.
What we test
Every senior accountant sits a practical test set at senior accountant level. Every technical test is reviewed by a qualified accountant. You see a scorecard for every candidate, not just a CV.
- UK bookkeeping
- Reconciliations
- VAT
- Software (Xero)
A recruiter screens experience, UK client exposure and motivation first, and a communication check covers written and spoken English. Then you interview the shortlist and choose. How our recruitment process works.
Candidate scorecard: Senior Accountant
Illustrative example, not a real person
- Recruiter screening
- Passed
- UK bookkeeping
- 23 / 25
- Reconciliations
- 22 / 25
- VAT
- 22 / 25
- Software (Xero)
- 23 / 25
- Technical test total
- 90 / 100
- Communication check
- Passed
Test reviewed by a qualified accountant. Screening by an experienced recruiter.
Specialisms we recruit at this level
Who you get
ACCA qualified, with at least four years of work for UK clients or practices.
Example profile: Senior Accountant
Illustrative example, not a real person
- Qualification
- ACCA qualified
- UK work
- 6 years of UK practice work
- Software
- Xero, CCH, Sage
- Technical test
- 90 / 100
- Availability
- One month’s notice
What a senior accountant costs
Prices exclude VAT. UK business clients account for VAT under the reverse charge.
DigiHyre Dedicated
from£1,500/month
Typical range £1,500–£1,800 a month. We recruit, employ, pay and manage. 3-month minimum, then 30 days’ notice.
Find my senior accountantDigiHyre Direct
£2,250one-time fee
We recruit and vet; you employ the senior accountant yourself. No fee until you hire: the one-time fee is invoiced when your chosen candidate accepts your offer. Free replacement within 90 days of their start date.
Find my senior accountantYear one compared with a UK hire
- UK hire, year one£50,000 salary, employer NIC, 3% pension, £3,000 overheads and a 20% agency fee
- £71,250
- DigiHyre Dedicated senior accountant, year one£1,500 a month × 12, excluding VAT
- £18,000
- Difference in year one
- £53,250
Illustrative, using the same assumptions as our home page cost card. Employer NIC at 15% above £5,000 (2026 to 2027). Your own figures will differ.
What they can’t do
A senior accountant prepares the work; your team reviews it and signs it off. They can’t act as your HMRC agent, sign off accounts or take on your professional responsibility. Final review, sign-off and HMRC submissions stay with your firm’s qualified professionals.
That keeps the arrangement simple: you stay in control of quality, and your client relationships stay with your firm.
Questions about hiring a senior accountant
How much does an offshore senior accountant cost?
Through DigiHyre Dedicated, from £1,500 a month (typically £1,500–£1,800), all-in and excluding VAT. Through Direct, a one-time fee of £2,250, invoiced only when you hire, and you pay the salary yourself. See full pricing and terms.
What hours does a senior accountant work?
Your accountant works 9:00am to 5:30pm UK time, Monday to Friday. In Lahore that’s an afternoon and evening shift, so your working days line up fully, all year round.
Is our client data secure?
Every accountant signs an NDA and works inside your cloud software through a named user account with role-based access, with no local storage of client data. We support you with an International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA) and a transfer risk assessment. Read about security and compliance.
What if the senior accountant doesn’t work out?
Free replacement within 90 days of their start date. The replacement goes through the same screening and technical test as the first hire. How the replacement guarantee works.