Accountants
Senior and semi-senior accountants doing year-end accounts, corporation tax, self assessment and review, in FreeAgent and Xero.
Careers at Buzz
We hire accountants, bookkeepers, payroll specialists, advisers, business coaches and operations staff. If you are good at what you do and want to work at a growing firm, tell us about yourself.
How we work
- Working in pods
- Radical candour over corporate nonsense
- Extreme ownership of outcomes
- Progress over perfection
- Data rules, ego drools
- Meetings in working hours
Roles we hire for
Send your details whether or not you see your role below.
Bookkeepers and payroll
Bank reconciliations, VAT, RTI, auto-enrolment and CIS, to a monthly rhythm that clients can see in their portal.
Client managers
The named person a client deals with. Client managers onboard new clients, reply within one working day and make sure clients only have to ask once.
Advisers and business coaches
Business Pulse meetings, budgets and forecasts, coaching sprints and business health checks for owner-managed firms.
Financial planners
Working alongside our regulated advice partner on the financial planning side of a client's life: pensions, protection and investments.
Legal and HR specialists
Practical, non-reserved legal support and HR advice for small employers through Buzz Legal.
Product and engineering
We build our own software. Buzz OS runs the firm and the client portal and app.
Marketing and growth
Content, local marketing in the towns we serve, partnerships and the numbers behind all of it.
The Buzz Way: ten ways of working
Everyone at Buzz is given this playbook and works to it. Read it before you apply.
- 1. Be brilliant at the basics
- We file early, check our work and deal with HMRC calmly. Everyone masters the fundamentals before taking on more.
- 2. Make it effortless for the client
- From onboarding to sign-off, we do the chasing and prompting and prepare the next step for the client.
- 3. Extreme ownership
- If a task is on your screen, it is yours to finish, without waiting to be told.
- 4. Radical candour over corporate nonsense
- We give clear, kind feedback to everyone, whatever their role, and we phone people to sort problems out quickly.
- 5. Think deeply, act decisively
- Whether you are improving a process or advising a client, take the time to think the problem through, then act.
- 6. Progress over perfection
- We move fast and learn by doing. Not everything will be perfect, and that is fine as long as it is better next time.
- 7. Work with clients we respect
- We take on clients who treat the team with respect, and we end the relationship with any client who is abusive, sloppy or careless.
- 8. Working in pods
- Each pod owns its own client portfolio, runs a weekly huddle and shares the workload so nothing slips.
- 9. Data rules, ego drools
- You will know your KPIs. The dashboards track the team's work as a whole.
- 10. We are all human here
- Take your holidays. Use your benefits. Say when you are struggling. Treat people as people first.
Weekly, monthly and quarterly routines
Weekly pod check-ins
Every pod meets once a week to go through what is done, what is blocked and what is coming up.
Monthly reviews
Once a month we review team performance, client health and process improvements.
Role-based KPIs
You get your own live dashboard and know what good looks like. Where a number is off, the conversation is about what would help.
Systems
The firm runs on FYI, Apron, Xero, BrightPay and our own Buzz OS, with the workflow written down.
Roles and goals
You know what is expected of you and who to go to.
Working hours
Messages wait until Monday and meetings are held in working hours.
Who does well here
People have been turned down at the final stage for the behaviours in the second list.
People who do well here
- Care about the quality of the work and about the experience of the team
- Learn fast and ask good questions
- Communicate well and be technically strong
- Can juggle a few things and also say “I am at capacity”
People who struggle here
- Only want to be told what to do
- Gossip, deflect or blame
- Do not check their own work
- Cannot adapt to new systems or software
Signs it is going well
- Clients stay, pay on time and recommend us
- Your work is clean, timely and respected
- You bring ideas along with problems
- You get better every quarter
- You are calm under pressure, and good to work with
Everyone gets a reading list on day one, including Atomic Habits, The E-Myth Revisited, Radical Candor, The Trusted Advisor and a dozen more.
How the firm is organised
Buzz is organised in pods: a small team that looks after a group of clients from bookkeeping through to the year end and the advisory work, so a client deals with people who know them and the team sees the whole picture.
We build our own software. Buzz OS runs the jobs, the deadlines, the client portal and the app, and the people who use it every day shape what gets built next.
We write in plain English, we fix the cause of a problem, and we keep the promises we have made to clients. We hold each other to the same standards.
The firm is growing across England, Northern Ireland and South Africa, so there are new roles and more responsibility for people who want them.
Offices and remote working
Greater Manchester
Salford and Leigh offices.
Hertford
Our Hertfordshire base.
Northern Ireland
Ballymena, our largest base.
Pretoria
The production hub, working UK hours.
Remote
Many of the team work from home across the UK.
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