Before buying her Rosemary franchise, Margaret worked for a large American multi-national company for over 35 years in various roles.

Before buying her Rosemary franchise, Margaret worked for a large American multi-national company for over 35 years in various roles. “I started my career in Customer Service looking after some of the core industrial businesses but subsequently dealt with virtually every business in the company in one way or another.”

“From Customer Service I moved on to database management and played a key role in the implementation of the new order management system. I went on to become the Supply Chain Management and Service Support Team Leader for the Security Systems business where I project managed the installation of self-service equipment in libraries across Cambridge, Dorset and Northamptonshire. Most recently, I worked in Marketing for a couple of different businesses that needed their pricing and product portfolios streamlined.”

How Margaret got involved with Rosemary Bookkeeping

“I had decided some time ago to retire from my full time job once I reached 55. I have always wanted to work for myself but felt that I would need some extra support so I started to look at franchises. I came across Rosemary whilst I was searching on the Which Franchise website last summer. I had been looking specifically for something I could do from home and at a time that would suit me so Rosemary stood out straight away and I sent off for information.

“I had already planned on going to the Franchise Show in Birmingham and so I arranged a meeting with Rosemary. I met with Jo, the Franchise Development Director, and she explained the franchise to me and I felt we really hit it off. Jo introduced me to everyone on the stand and I decided immediately that it was for me. Everyone was so friendly and obviously supportive of each other, it felt to me like a family…a family I wanted to be a part of.”

Margaret’s secrets to success…

“I have a strong personality and an eye for detail which I’m pretty sure will have a positive impact on my franchise. I want to be the person to go to in the area and be seen as helpful, knowledgeable and above all, professional.”

“My plan is that by this time next year I will have a good number of clients and maybe even people working for me.”

What Joanna Dennis, Franchise Development Director of Rosemary Bookkeeping says:
“Margaret is a really proactive person to work with – she intelligently processes the work and makes sure that the reports she prepares are useful and make sense to her clients.”

About Rosemary Bookkeeping

Rosemary Bookkeeping is a British Franchise Association accredited franchise, based on a successful business which was established in 2002 and offers a unique bookkeeping system which is built around charging clients per transaction rather than per hour.

The Founding Partners have over 60 years of business and bookkeeping experience between them in the essential business disciplines of accounting, operations, sales and marketing.

According to the Federation of Small Businesses, over 4 million customers NEED this service. By law, all businesses in the UK are required to keep records of their transactions which later are used by an accountant to file for tax and often VAT. Managing these transactions through bookkeeping is often the biggest headache to the small business owner and a task that is left at the bottom of the pile.

There is a growing network of established Franchise Partners in the UK either running their franchise as a management business with bookkeepers undertaking the work for them or working on client accounts themselves.