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Inward Expansion

The Problem

For many international businesses, particularly from regions like the US, Europe, and South Africa, entering the UK market presents a number of challenges. While the UK offers a strategic location and access to a highly developed economy, companies often struggle with navigating local regulations, tax compliance, and employment laws. Establishing a local presence can be both costly and complex, with many businesses finding it difficult to manage the logistical, financial, and operational aspects required for successful expansion.

The Solution

At Finovate, we specialise in simplifying the inward expansion process for businesses looking to establish operations in the UK. We offer comprehensive support to guide you through each stage of the expansion journey, from the initial setup of your UK entity to full compliance and the transfer of employees. Whether you’re looking for a once-off solution or ongoing retainer services, our expertise ensures that your UK expansion is both smooth and successful.

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Our structured, step-by-step approach ensures that your business can swiftly establish itself in the UK, with full compliance from the outset.

Phase 1: Setup

 Entity Setup, Banking, Systems, Registrations, and Local Representation. 

We manage all aspects of establishing your business in the UK, including banking and registration.

Phase 2: Transfer

Transfer Ownership, Secretarial Compliance, and Endorsement of Shares. 

We handle all regulatory requirements to ensure your business operates legally and efficiently.

Phase 3: Onboard

Transfer of Employees and Additional Compliance.

We streamline the transfer of your global workforce, ensuring compliance with UK employment laws and regulations.

Want a Retainer Solution?

For ongoing operational support, our retainer package provides peace of mind as you navigate the UK market. We ensure that your business remains compliant while optimising its local operations.

Our Key Solutions Are:

Local Public Officer & Address

Fractional CFO / Financial Management

Local Tax Compliance

Access to Cross-Border Compliance

HR & IR

Local Banking, Company Secretarial, and Payroll Services

Step into the UK with confidence.
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The Value We Add

Partnering with Finovate provides your business with expert local knowledge, allowing you to focus on growth without worrying about the complexities of UK regulations. We don’t just ensure compliance—we help optimise your operations, reducing costs and unlocking the potential of the UK’s vast talent pool. Our services enable you to scale efficiently, saving significantly on operational costs while maintaining a strong local presence.

With our support, your business can expand seamlessly into the UK, with our team acting as an extension of yours, handling everything from tax and regulatory compliance to employee management. This allows you to focus on driving your business forward while we take care of the local intricacies. Finovate gives you the strategic advantage of both local expertise and global perspective, ensuring your UK expansion is not only compliant but also highly successful.

Let us help you expand—efficiently, compliantly, and strategically.

See how we’ve helped Businesses like yours Grow and Thrive

"We have been operating for over 20 years but our business has really flourished in the last four years – and this has a lot to do with our strategic relationship with Finovate. We started out with their accounting services and expanded into recruitment – we’ve since worked on a number of strategic projects and envision future opportunities to develop with Finovate around data analytics and HR employment law. Finovate took time to get to know our business model and there is no question they add value. Suffice to say I would not hesitate to recommend Finovate to any UK small to medium business."

- Lisa Gardshol

The Savanna

"Finovate's fractional CFO offering was instrumental in helping us commercialise our idea and build a financial model that demonstrated its commercial viability. They also assisted us in raising the startup capital we needed to get off the ground. Currently, they continue to support us in Exco meetings, ensuring that our big deals and decisions are structured in a commercially viable way, allowing us to offer great value to our clients while maintaining healthy cash flow."

- Carel Strydom

HireJustNow

"We started our online subscription business pre-covid (before Brexit) and were struggling to make the concept work – Finovate helped us pull back, restructure and reassess the business model, then slowly rebuild. We found their approach to budgeting and setting new financial targets refreshing. This is a key partnership for us and we would be happy referring Finovate to other like-minded businesses."

- Lisa Gardshol

M-eat Biltong Ltd

"Our business is a simple property business (warehousing) and we just wanted a relatively basic level of financial support. We were referred to Finovate after finding many local accountancy firms way too expensive. For us, Finovate doesn't over-complicate things – they use systems like Xero, everything is cloud based, we keep things tight – our finance function is fairly simple and Finovate are totally aligned with us. They’ve made our finance function a breeze to manage."

- Lisa Gardshol

SIGA Properties Ltd

"Finovate is a key global scaling partner to the Paytec and Zeam Money businesses. What started off as a fractional CFO offering, expanded to become a full-service FinOps provider in Sub-Saharan Africa, the EU and the UK. Finovate provides a comprehensive global overview of our business, and regularly provides practical- and innovative solutions that reaches far beyond accounting services – just what you need to run a global business. We entrusted them with board seats as long-term partners."

- Danie van Tonder

Paytec

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