Helen Sanders

Every bad hire costs you £50-100K and 6 months you can't get back. I've spent 27 years making sure that doesn't happen.

My unusual journey started as the BBC's first female football commentator in 1997. While breaking barriers in the commentary box, I noticed something crucial: the teams that won weren't necessarily the ones with the most talented players. They were the ones where people just clicked.

That insight became the foundation of everything I do at HFBAC.

HFBAC = Hiring For and Building Awesome Companies (pronounced "Half-back")

WHY CLIENTS STAY:
Most recruiters disappear after the invoice clears. I don't.

13 companies I've worked with for 3+ years. 
11 more who've hired through me multiple times over 5+ years. 

Two partnerships spanning over a decade - including one where I've been their embedded Talent Partner for 10+ years.

My favourite success story? A US tech start-up company asked me to help build their UK team. I hired their second employee. Today they're 80+ people across both countries.

That's Chemistry First in action.

WHAT I DO NOW:
- Fractional Talent Partner: Your embedded Head of Talent - without the £80k salary. Hiring strategy, full-cycle recruiting, candidate experience. For growing teams of 15-100 who need serious talent capability without a full-time hire.

- Starter Retainer Monthly strategy: The bridge between DIY hiring and full talent support. For bootstrapped teams of 5-20 scaling fast.

- Project Hiring: Chemistry First methodology for critical hires - first hires, leadership, founding team roles.

I work with founders in the UK and US. British-American dual citizen who understands both markets from the inside.

WHY "CHEMISTRY FIRST"?

Chemistry matters more than credentials. Every time.

46% of hires fail within 18 months. 89% of those failures? Not skills - chemistry. 
That's why I test for values alignment and team dynamics BEFORE anything else.
Result: 90%+ success rate.

12-month replacement guarantee. Most recruiters give you 3 months. I give you a year.

WHAT DRIVES ME:

In 2008, my 3-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer.

Watching him fight - and win - taught me what really matters when pressure's on. 

People who show up for each other. People who refuse to give up on the team.

He's thriving today. 

Now I'm raising £1 million for Young Lives vs Cancer. A portion of every HFBAC engagement supports families facing the same fight.

When you work with me, you're not just building your team - you're part of something bigger.

LET'S CONNECT:
Growing a team? Let's talk → hfbac.com

Recruitment Strategic Partner | SME Recruitment Growth Specialist | CEO

There is an easier way to recruit and nurture new staff. Your People Partners can do it for you.

As a business owner responsible for every aspect of your company, knowing how to save time and money hiring your next member of staff is rather useful!

Would you love an easy, cost effective and efficient service to help you spend more time on the business and not just in it as you go about recruiting your next member of staff?

Good news.

You don't need to use a recruiter in the traditional sense.

I am Helen Sanders. And I head up a talented team of talent acquisition specialists who are Your People Partners.

You can use my 22 years (!) recruitment expertise in helping business owners like you to save time, save money, cut the risk of poor hires and remove the stress of the recruitment process.

Did I mention we are not an 'agency'?

If we work together, we're partners. We work together to make sure you hire well and your team can grow to meet your vision and better support your clients/customers.

Done-With-You:
We stand by you, jump in when you need, we guide and do the bits you cannot do, and you learn how to be really awesome at hiring. No, we're not trying to make you into a recruiter. Being a business owner who hires well can make or break your business. 

Done-As-You:
We are your in-house team. We ensure all people in touch with your company have an awesome experience of you, the business owner as well as your company. Given our partners (companies like yours) are between 3 and 50 staff, we know that you're competing for the talent you need.

All this for the same cost, or sometimes less, than a 'normal' recruitment agency.

Call me now on 0117 290 0208 for a chat about how we can take the stress out of your next hire, as well as support your growing team with all things 'people' and talent-related.

Virtual Diamond - Virtual Assistant

We work with business owners who just prefer to follow their passion!  They don’t want to get bogged down in the nitty gritty, and why should they?

Everybody doing what they are good at is what makes good business sense.  With that in mind, within Virtual Diamond, we work in the back office to various businesses. We provide a Flexible, Efficient and Cost-Effective Support Service, without the additional expense of training, hiring a temp or the overheads of employing someone full time.

Here are few examples of clients we work with:

1.	Client with an Online Shop:

•	We process wholesale orders and work with the warehouses to ensure shipping and delivery process 
        is completed to standard.
•	We do the bookkeeping for client and also reconcile all sales through Shopify, Amazon and Paypal.
•	We liaise to debtors for payment and ensure creditors are paid on time.

2.	Client with a busy schedule:

•	Manage his calendar to ensure vital meetings are in place
•	Arrange meetings with the various organisations
•	Arrange travel and hotel bookings
•	Liaise with international contacts

3.	Client in the Property Industry:

•	Set-up regular meetings with team and clients
•	Research property options for clients 
•	Gain in depth market knowledge
•	Sit in on client meetings

4.	Client with Projects:

•	Project Management
•	Budget Management
•	Bookkeeping
•	Meetings and diary management
•	File and CRM management

Business Owner

RunPcRun

My role at RunPcRun included project managing an accounts move from Sage to Xero.  Working with the team to ensure the information was correctly transferred as well as training staff members to efficiently utilise Xero.

Post implementation, my role at RunPcRun as Accounts Manager is to oversee the Accounts Payable and Credit Control aspects.  I provide assistance to the team with all accounts and xero based issues. 

My aim at RunPcRun is to update the accounts processes and procedures to save time and ensure efficiency of the team.

Virtual Accounts Manager

Vaucluse Associates Limited

Assisting Business Owner in various admin tasks to ensure smooth running of the business.  Includes Accounts, Administration and Recruitment Assistant.

Virtual Assistant and Administrator

SBMCRE

My role is primarily the delivery of detailed information on a variety of projects including property availability, impact analysis, tenant mix analysis, floorspace capacity analysis, customer performance, competitive positioning and marketing strategies.
 
I have significant contact with external parties including representatives of the client, key project team professionals (typically planners, architects, property agents and marketing advisors) and other stakeholders (e.g. potential occupiers, local authorities and investors). I assist in business development activity through participation in client pitches, liaison with partner organisations and ongoing marketing activity.

Consultant: Research Manager

Time Etc - Award Winning Virtual Assistants For Entrepreneurs

Flexible assistance and support to busy entrepreneurs in companies of all sizes.
Currently running a busy portfolio of clients and a wide variety of tasks.

Services Include:	
Diary, travel and email management
Organising internal and external meetings
Research projects 
Project Work
Presentations/Documentation provision
Accounts Assistant incl. Sales Ledger, Purchase Ledger, Credit Control
Xero Accounts Assistant

Virtual Assistant

Fairmile Accounting Ltd

Assisting with various Administration tasks and Bookkeeping on Xero.

The role is varied and depends on what needs doing each week.  

The aim is to  is to update processes and procedures to save time and ensure efficiency of the team going forward

Virtual Administrator

Simplyhealth

* Deputise for the Self-Funded Finance Team Leader when required
* Supervise and control the team’s workload to ensure effective service   delivery
* Identify and resolve specific problems, complaints and queries from internal and external parties.  Ensure that urgent requests are dealt with as a priority and where necessary refer to management.
* Reviewing and suggesting improvement where necessary to the systems and work practices of the department.
* Support any current and future business & departmental projects
* Prepare, process & raise invoices for administration fees and claims funding
* Oversee and post monthly journals for various income types
* Produce monthly & ad-hoc management information & reports for both clients & internal customers
* Prepare client money reconciliation
* Prepare bank reconciliation
* Credit control for client receivables
* Cash flow forecasting & reporting for client funding levels
* Preparation & submission of BACS DC & DD files
* Preparation & submission of domestic & international one-off payments
* Monitor and track underwriter’s premiums for Stop Loss & IPT
* Prepare annual client contract reconciliation
* Work as part of a team to help cover for other duties within the department when required.

Senior Accounts Assistant

NB Real Estate

* Service Charge and Reconciliations

*  Working on General Ledger transactions.

* Reporting to client on a quarterly basis. Reports are produced and sent within 5 days

* Update the system with Tenant movements, incl. Rent Reviews, New Leases, Renewals, etc

* Updating internal reporting systems regularly

* Assist with Client and tenant queries as well as Supplier Queries on a regular basis. This is all done telephonically and sometimes by email or letters.

* Setting up new clients on the system.

* Administrative/Secretarial experience as an added advantage.

Client Accountant

LaSalle Investment Management

* Service charges Reconciliations
* Updating the system with Tenant movements

Accounts Controller

Jones Lang LaSalle

* All Administrative work for team of 8
* Organising Meetings 
* Ordering Stationery
* Dealing with incoming and outgoing email
* Working with all the correspondence to and from the various team members.
* Improving and maintaining the filing systems
* Updating and maintaining databases and spreadsheets
* Producing reports and statistics 
* IT Liaison Representative
* P/T Secretary for the Charity Committee

Team Secretary - Retail Consulting

Administration and Bookkeeping is our Job, What is Yours? If NOT Administration and Bookkeeping...WHY are you doing it? 🤷🏾‍♀️ Hire a Virtual Assistant!

💥 We work with stressed out and overworked Small Business Owners and Self Employed Individuals. 💥 
Most clients we work with don’t have an HR Department, an Admin Department, an Accounts department, a Marketing Department and an IT Department.  BUT these jobs still need doing right?

That’s where we come in!

We help various clients on a daily basis with tasks that Do Not earn them any money, but is vital to their business.  

Lets look at an example of why Virtual Assistants make sense:

Your hourly rate is £300 (fill in yours here), Ours is £35!

To do your admin and accounts each month, you can spend at least 5 hours at a bare minimum estimate.  

⭕ If YOU do it ▶ Cost to your business - £300 ✖ 5 hours = £1,500
⭕ If WE do it ▶ Cost to Your Business - £35 ✖ 5 hours = £175

We may even do it faster because it is something we do all the time.  

⭐⭐How is hiring us not a Good Solution to your business? ⭐⭐

Here is a little of what we can do:

✅  Online Bookkeeping
✅  Budget Management
✅  Email and Diary Management
✅  Project Management
✅  Staff Contact and HR assistance
✅  Hotel and Flight Bookings
✅  Recruitment assistance
✅  Social Media Management
✅  Property Research
✅  Event Management

If it's not mentioned, do give us a call and check though, I'm sure we would be able to accommodate you or if not, we have a great network of people we work with, we are sure to find someone who can help.

Book a FREE call now: https://calendly.com/virtualdiamond/discovery-call

Also check out our Charity Partners, Molly Olly's. They support children with life-threatening illnesses and their families to help with their emotional wellbeing. We provide gifts to individuals and donate therapeutic toys and books to both children directly and to hospitals throughout the UK.

Some GREAT gifts and Christmas pressies while supporting a brilliant cause.

WEBSITE: https://mollyolly.co.uk/

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