What began in a bedroom in rural Wexford has grown into one of Ireland’s most influential support organisations for the accountancy profession…
Today, OmniPro serves thousands of accountants through a broad range of services including technical compliance, tax and legal support, company secretarial services, corporate finance, recruitment, practice development and digital transformation.
Headquartered in Ferns, Co. Wexford, the company has spent more than two decades helping accounting firms navigate an increasingly complex business and regulatory landscape.
The story of OmniPro is closely tied to its founder, Des O’Neill, who spent years working in accountancy practice and within one of the profession’s regulatory and support institutes.
Reflecting on the company’s origins, OmniPro’s Head of Marketing Jonathan Reynolds explained how the business was born from a clear need within the profession.
“OmniPro was formed in 2004 from a bedroom in Tombrack Ferns. At the time, our founder, Des O’Neill, was working as a quality control reviewer for one of the Irish accountancy institutes. This role gave Des a clear view of the challenges accounting firm owners were facing and where accounting firms were struggling — keeping pace with technical and regulatory standards while still running a business,” he told Wexford Weekly.
“OmniPro grew directly out of that: a partner for accounting firms to lean on for the technical compliance, so they could get on with serving their clients and building a better business for themselves and their team.”
OmniPro has since expanded into a substantial business with operations spanning practice support, practice development, tax and legal services, company secretarial work, corporate finance and professional education.
Some businesses offer services to accountants, but OmniPro’s growth has been built on one simple principle: understanding the realities of life inside an accounting practice. Their shared experience and a commitment to solving practical problems have helped create strong relationships with clients over the years.
“Really, there are two things that have accounted for OmniPro’s rise. First, we genuinely understand the pressure of running a an accounting firm and running a professional services business. We understand because that’s the world our team comes from — we are a colleague, not a vendor.”
“Second, we kept expanding what we can take off an accountant’s desk: technical and compliance support, company secretarial services, tax and legal, practice growth and profitability, recruitment, corporate finance advisory for firms and their clients and now digital transformation services for accounting firms and their clients,” Johnathan told Wexford Weekly.
“An accountant and their team can pick up the phone to us about almost any challenge they face and we have a specialist who already speaks their language and can solve their problem. Trust compounds. Once a firm sees you get it right on one thing, they bring you the next.”
Ireland’s professional services sector contains many specialist providers, but OmniPro has carved out a niche by bringing a wide range of expertise under one roof.
It is this combination which continues to differentiate the company from others operating in the market:
“The difference is breadth combined with depth. Plenty of firms do one slice of what we do — a compliance subscription here, a company secretarial provider there, a recruiter somewhere else. Very few bring all of it together under one roof with real specialists in each area, built specifically for the accountancy profession rather than business generally.”
“We’re not trying to be everything to everyone; we’re trying to be the single most useful partner an accounting firm can have. We help them build profitable, sustainable, scalable businesses that benefit themselves, their teams and their clients. Of course there are competitors in each individual area — and we respect them — but we’re not aware of anyone in Ireland combining the full range of services the OmniPro Group does.”
More than twenty years after its foundation, OmniPro is now setting its sights firmly on international growth. The company is actively recruiting across a wide range of disciplines as it prepares for the next phase of its development.
“OmniPro is looking to double in the next 3 years. We are expanding internationally already, and we are scaling components of our business in the UK, Europe and the US. We are leveraging our deep domain experience using technology, automation and AI to strategically evolve our business providing more impactful services to more professional service providers nationally and internationally in an AI enabled world.”
“To scale our business we need a range of people from experienced senior professionals to people in the early stages of their career path. We are looking for operations leaders, managers, marketers, technology experts, sales people, accountants, systems technology and AI experts, tax advisors, recruiters, company secretarial experts, auditors, HR practitioners, administrators and everything in between,” he told Wexford Weekly.
“We are looking for people who want to grow and develop with us as we grow and develop our business helping our clients grow and develop theirs.”
As OmniPro enters its third decade, its story remains a distinctly Wexford success story, but it’s one that continues to grow far beyond the county’s borders.
For more information on the roles available, or to join the team at OmniPro, check out the OmniPro jobs page: https://jointeamomnipro.ie/
Jason Redmond
From Gorey, Jason is the owner of Wexford Weekly. He is also a post-primary English and History teacher.
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