SmartHR Consulting

Company structuring

Concept, start-up phase, human resources, standards and regulation. We support you in setting up your company and all the way through its growth. When administration and day-to-day operations take over, win back the time the structural questions deserve.

A partner in your development, more than a consulting firm.

From concept to start-up

For a founder starting from an idea, an owner whose company has outgrown its original form, or a group that has grown through mergers and acquisitions.

Concept and business model

Putting the idea or the concept to the test. Target customers, product and / or services, financial flows and unit costs.

Business plan

A plan you can defend to a bank, an investor or a partner: written and sourced assumptions, three scenarios, a cash plan and a break-even point.

Legal form and governance

Choosing or revising the legal form, articles of association, directors’ roles and powers, delegations, decision rules.

Holding company and intragroup flows

Setting up a holding company, service and management agreements, consistency and justification of flows between entities.

Share capital and shareholders

Capital allocation, a partner joining or leaving, shareholders’ agreement, exit and valuation clauses.

Start-up and growth

The first hundred days, then what follows: target organisation chart, delegations, management dashboard, and what must be written down before the first hire.

Human resources

Putting in place what is missing when a company goes from two people to fifteen, without building an administration it does not need.

Building the HR function

Contracts, job descriptions, personnel administration, registers and statutory obligations, document control.

Payroll arrangements

Scoping the need, selecting the provider, setting it up and checking the first cycles. We do not run payroll: we frame it and we check it.

Reviews and follow-up

Annual and professional review templates, assessment grids, skills development plans, training needs and succession planning.

Standards and regulation

Two subjects small companies discover at the worst moment: when a client asks, or at the first inspection.

Standards

Implementation support: quality manual, QHSE system, process mapping, indicators and dashboards, preparation for certification. We build the system with your team, not in their place.

Regulation

Regulatory monitoring for your sector: what changes, what applies to you, and what it means in practice. A written periodic briefing, without legal jargon.

Method

Three stages, one document, one handover

1 · Scoping

A working session with the director, a questionnaire beforehand, and a review of existing documents — articles, contracts, the real organisation chart.

2 · Written deliverable

A single document: the findings, the options with their implications (cost, time, risk) and our recommendations.

3 · Implementation and handover

We support you through the roll-out, we pass on the method, and we work with your usual advisers where a deed falls within their expertise.

We are neither lawyers nor accountants. We frame the decision, prepare the documents and support you; deeds that fall to a regulated profession are drawn up by your own adviser.

Where to start?

One scoping session is enough to understand what you need.

Request a scoping session