Planning to expand into the UK market?
For more than 10 years, we have been helping foreign companies expand into the UK. With our specialist knowledge and unrivalled understanding of cultural differences, we are able to offer a range of services to help make this transition as smooth and successful as possible.
Team members:
Our Services:
Company Secretarial & Legal
We’ll make sure you’re properly registered to do business in the UK, and that everything’s in place for you to hit the ground running, including:
· Company and branch registrations
· Intellectual property registrations
· Lease and property administration
· Shareholder agreements
· VAT applications
· Opening bank accounts.
Financial Admin & Reporting
We’ll make sure you’re ready to start trading, and that nothing gets lost in translating your business from one financial culture to another. Specifically, as well as ongoing accounting and reporting, we’ll help with:
· Setting up financial procedures and routines
· Budgeting and forecasting
· Implementing accounting systems
· Banking matters
· Training in-house staff.
· Ongoing accounting and reporting.
HR Planning & Operations
We’ll help you set up your UK workforce, overseeing employment contracts as well as offering advice on issues like:
· Salary and benefits advice.
· UK secondment agreements and applications
· Drawing up contracts of employment
· Developing appropriate HR policies and procedures.
· Reference checking.
Benefits, Insurances & Financial planning
We’ll help you to identify and set up any financial measures you could be taking to enhance your business, including:
· Pensions and benefits schemes
· Tax planning
· Business protection/insurance (including key-person insurance)
· Residential and commercial mortgages.
Payroll Services
We’ll help you set up an efficient payroll operation, even for the most complex of international remuneration packages, taking into account:
· What constitutes a fair and competitive salary
· Legislation in all relevant jurisdictions
· The kind of taxation payments you need to administer.
The Goodwille Network
Having spent more than a decade building up an extensive network, we can connect you with people you can trust to help get you started in the UK – including:
· Bank contacts
· Tax advisors
· Relocation agents
· Insurance brokers
· Estate agents
· Translators.
Office Services & Facilities
You can use us not only as your registered legal address but also as a fully serviced office and meeting space whenever you need it.
Already running a UK operation?
Whether you’re new to the UK, or you’ve been here for some time, we have the experience, know-how and resources to help you run your UK business as efficiently and effectively as possible – providing outsourcing solutions and professional services in a range of key areas.
Team members:
Our Services:
Company Secretarial & Legal
Get on with running your business by letting us look after all your day-to-day legal administrative obligations -- including.
· Annual obligations
· Company insurances
· Data protection
· Health and safety
· Terms and conditions
· Contracts and licences
· Local Authority issues
· Corporate governance
· Annual General Meetings – Board responsibilities and attendance.
Financial Admin & Reporting
We’ll act as your finance function, providing the kind of cost effective expertise and dependable professionalism you need, in areas such as:
· Book-keeping
· Management reporting
· Payments and cash-flow management
· Invoicing
· VAT returns.
HR Planning & Operations
We can provide you with your very own ‘virtual’ HR function, tailoring it to meet your own particular needs, as well as helping you with things like:
· HR policies and procedures
· Contract and salary reviews
· Staff handbooks and helplines
· Pensions and benefits schemes
· Car leasing.
Benefits, Insurances & Financial planning
We’ll keep an eye on all your financial planning arrangements, ensuring continuing optimum returns and efficiency in such areas as:
· Pensions and benefits schemes
· Tax planning
· Business protection/insurance (including key-person insurance)
· Commercial and residential mortgages
· Investment and portfolio management.
Payroll Services
We’ll act as your payroll department for you, administering every aspect of your workforce’s pay and benefits, including
· Bonus and commission calculations and payment
· Employee expenses management
· UK PAYE and National Insurance compliance
· Liaising with tax authorities
· Annual declarations.
The Goodwille Network
We all need specialist help from time-to-time, and more often than not, we’ll know where you can find it. For instance, we have long standing associations with companies in such areas as:
· The Law
· Accountancy
· PR and marketing
· General business advice.
Office Services & Facilities
Save money on your everyday premises and administrative costs by making the most of our office and meeting facilities, as well as our telephone answering and mail handling services.
Developing the scope of your UK operation?
As your business changes, so do your administrative and operational needs. Our in-depth understanding of the challenges facing foreign companies as they grow in the UK puts us in the ideal position to provide the kind of expert services that will help you achieve your goals.
Team members:
Our Services:
Company Secretarial & Legal
We’ll work with you to ensure that, however you choose to progress, you continue to meet your legal responsibilities, helping with:
· Due diligence
· Annual obligations
· Contracts and licences
· Corporate governance
· Shareholder communication.
Financial Admin & Reporting
We’ll help ensure that your financial processes are ready to support any planned or unexpected changes to your business, looking at such areas as:
· Building scalability into systems and processes
· Credit control and debt recovery
· Liaising with accountants and auditors
· Training in-house staff.
HR Planning & Operations
We’ll help you manage the human side of organisational change, making sure you continue to support your workforce and always act within the law. We can also act as your ‘virtual’ HR function – either in-house or off-site – to deliver crucial operational support, whether you need it for the long-term or only temporarily.
Benefits, Insurances & Financial planning
We’ll make sure that you can develop your business with confidence, adjusting your protection needs and financial plans to match your circumstances, ensuring optimum efficiency at all times.
Payroll Services
We’ll help to ensure that your payroll systems are fully scalable and tailored to the changing nature of your company.
The Goodwille Network
As part of our network, you will have access to a broad range of individuals and companies that could play a big role in taking your business to the next level. We hold regular networking events at our offices in London, each giving you the opportunity to meet and swap ideas.
Office Services & Facilities
Ease the transition into becoming a bigger, broader business by making use of our cost effective office and meeting space, and our friendly, professional reception services.