Accountants
Senior and semi-senior: year-end accounts, corporation tax, self assessment, review. FreeAgent and Xero every day.
We are always looking for brilliant people
Accountants, bookkeepers, payroll specialists, advisers, business coaches and the people who make a firm run. If you are good at what you do and want to work somewhere that is building rather than maintaining, 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
- No weekend messages, no hero culture
The roles we hire for
There is not always a vacancy with your title on it. There is always room for someone who is very good, so send your details whether or not you see the 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. Onboarding, the promise of a reply within one working day, and making sure nothing is chased twice.
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, and it is never finished.
Marketing and growth
Content, local marketing in the towns we serve, partnerships and the numbers behind all of it.
Ten ways of working
This is the culture playbook every person here is given, and it is what we hold each other to. It is published rather than kept internal so you can decide whether it is you before you apply.
- 1. Be brilliant at the basics
- Compliance is the foundation. We file early, we check our work and we handle HMRC without drama. Everyone masters the fundamentals before anything gets layered on top.
- 2. Make it effortless for the client
- From onboarding to sign-off, the job is to remove friction. A client should not have to follow up — we are the ones chasing, prompting and packaging the next step.
- 3. Extreme ownership
- If it is on your screen, it is yours. Own the outcome. Do not wait to be told: take it, drive it, finish it.
- 4. Radical candour over corporate nonsense
- Direct and kind. Clear feedback up, down and sideways. We do not hide behind chat — we pick the phone up and fix things fast.
- 5. Think deeply, act decisively
- Do not settle for the surface answer, whether you are improving a process or advising a client. Take the time to think, then move. Smart beats busy.
- 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 say no to clients who do not align. Abusive, sloppy or careless and we do not keep them. The team comes first, always.
- 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 and be proud of them. The dashboards track the work. They are not used to monitor individuals.
- 10. We are all human here
- Take your holidays. Use your benefits. Say when you are struggling. Treat people as people first.
The rhythm of the week, the month and the quarter
Weekly pod check-ins
Every pod meets once a week: what is done, what is blocked, what is coming. Nobody is left in the dark.
Monthly reviews
Once a month we zoom out — team performance, client health, process improvements. It is where the firm levels up.
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 run the firm
Not personalities. 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. No grey areas and no guesswork.
Boundaries matter
We do not glorify overwork. No weekend messages, no meetings after hours, no hero culture.
And who does not
Both lists are honest. The second one has cost people the job at final stage, so read it properly.
People who fly here
- Care about the quality of the work and about the experience of the team
- Learn fast, give a damn and ask smart 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
How you will know 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
We are a learning business, so everyone gets a reading list on day one — Atomic Habits, The E-Myth Revisited, Radical Candor, The Trusted Advisor and a dozen more. Nobody is tested on it. People do read them.
Pods, software and plain English
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. There is no ping-pong between departments.
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 rather than the symptom, and we keep the promises we have made to clients. Those are the same standards we hold each other to.
The firm is growing across England, Northern Ireland and South Africa, which means the work changes and there is more of it to take on for people who want that.
Offices and remote
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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