Saffery is a firm of chartered accountants, providing accountancy, tax and other business advisory services in nine offices in the UK, and further offices in Dubai, Dublin, Guernsey, Geneva and Zurich. As a member of Nexia International, a leading, global network of independent accounting and consulting firms, we are also able to support our clients wherever in the world they are seeking to grow or develop.

We are a firm with a deliberate focus; we do not try to be all things to all people. Instead, we choose to specialise in specific sectors and areas of business where we have real in-depth expertise and experience. With a large range of recruitment businesses as clients and a proactive involvement in the industry for many years, we are one of the very few business advisers that genuinely understand the needs of the recruitment sector and the businesses and individuals within it.

We have a team dedicated to advising recruitment and executive search businesses, as well as umbrella companies and other payroll intermediaries, with a combined turnover of approximately £5 billion.

We provide clients with a value added and sector-tailored compliance service for audit, accounts and tax, and we also work closely with our clients to support their goals in areas such as:

• Advising on employee taxation and other incentives
• Implementing share option schemes
• Interpretation of VAT legislation
• Profit extraction planning for owners, along with succession and exit planning
• Financial benchmarking
• Corporate finance advice and transaction support

We have been an FCSA assessor since 2014. Our FCSA assessments are performed by senior members of our specialist tax team. We put in place safeguards to ensure that the team is independent from the business being reviewed and our review process ensures there is evidence that the FCSA’s codes are being applied.