VBP expands offering, hires accounting lead

Professional services firm, Virtual Business Partners (VBP), has appointed Daniel Harrison as its new Technical Lead – Accounting to support its expanded offering of bookkeeping and accounting services.

Formerly of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO), Harrison brings over two decades of experience in the accounting industry, mostly in public practice. He has also previously managed his own accounting practice and held senior roles at accounting firms based in New South Wales.

Harrison is a member of the Institute of Public Accountants and is part of the tax working group for Blockchain Australia.

“Increasingly our clients are multi-disciplined firms. To date, VBP has been able to provide services to the wealth management and mortgage broking divisions of our clients, but not to their accounting and bookkeeping divisions at the same level of operational excellence,” VBP chief executive, David Carney, said.

“With the support of Daniel, we are now realising the opportunity to support their accounting and bookkeeping divisions. It will also support pure financial planning firms to benefit from in-house bookkeeping support around internal payroll functions.”

Harrison will report to Head of Client Experience, Sarah Matthews.