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What a five person company should never hire a person to do

When a small business hires a part time administrator to key invoices and chase paperwork, it's usually a sign the work is repetitive, not that it needs a person. Hire people for judgement. Let a machine do the typing.

A five person company grows a little. Suddenly there's more paperwork than anyone has time for. The owner's evenings go to typing supplier bills into the system. So the natural move is to hire someone part time to do it.

It works for a while. Then that person is on leave during month end, or leaves, and the backlog comes straight back.

What the hire is really doing

Look at the actual tasks:

  • Copying invoice details from an email into the accounting system.
  • Sending the same reminder to customers every week.
  • Renaming and filing receipts.
  • Building the same report in a spreadsheet every Monday.

Every one of those follows the same steps every time. That's exactly the work a person shouldn't be paid to repeat, and the work they'll quietly get wrong when they're tired.

Where a person is worth it

A supplier who disputes a payment. A customer who needs a conversation, not a reminder. A cost that doesn't fit any category. A decision about whether to take on a big order. That's judgement, and it's where your team's time should go.

The split that works

Let a workflow handle the keying, the filing, the reminders and the routine report, every day, the same way. Send the exceptions to a named person with everything they need to decide. You'll still need people. You just won't need them for the typing.

Where Finamatik fits

That's what we build, inside the tools you already use, on your accounts, and it stays yours. What we show publicly is built and tested on sample data. If you're about to hire for admin work, spend twenty free minutes with us first at finamatik.com/book.

Written by the Finamatik team. General guidance on UAE rules as they stand at the date above, not advice on your facts. Where a decision turns on your specific circumstances we will say so rather than generalise.

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