FAQs

All our consultants are members of professional accounting bodies and are therefore bound by their code of ethics. We believe that the risks associated with offshoring are not much different to hiring staff locally.

Absolutely. We have obtained assurance from GDPR experts on our service offerings and have put in place the necessary safeguards to ensure full compliance with the relevant legislation. 

Definitely, yes. We understand the importance of data security, which is why all our offshore centres are secure environments with CCTV, security lockers, disabled USB ports, and a strict ‘no printing’ policy. We also provide training on data security to our consultants and incorporate confidentiality and data protection into all employment contracts. 

For offshore service centres we take responsibility for choosing the right consultants and together with our partners work on their learning and development needs. 

When we offer recruitment services only, we present suitable candidates to our partners who make the final selection. 

We are highly confident that you will be fully satisfied with our services. Therefore, we do not charge any penalties for cancelling your contract with us whether it’s for an offshore service centre or a recruitment services. We have standard notice periods which are explained in our service agreements. 

Your account manager will have regular catch-up sessions with you to ensure any issues relating to performance are identified and resolved in a timely manner and to your full satisfaction.

We have a very rigorous recruitment process through which we attract the highest caliber people to our organisation to work for our partners. We also provide an opportunity to our partners to meet our consultants to ensure they are a good fit for their organisation. 

All our candidates will be working during the core hours, i.e. from 10am to 4pm. Depending on our partners needs, these hours can be flexed.
All our candidates have access to stable Internet and computer. Our partners can choose to either onboard our candidates using ‘remote desktop’ technology or provide company laptops.

We handle all the payments to our offshore consultants, so our partners don’t need to worry about handling international payments.

Our candidates are qualified and part qualified accountants with experience in audit and assurance. Our candidates can also assist you in other relevant work such as:

• corporate finance
• non-statutory assurance
• accounts preparation
• financial modelling
• preparing tenders and presentations

Yes – Potencia is a UK based company registered in England & Wales (registration # 13455159).