Hi, I’m Julia. I fix the structural data disconnect between how your software team ships code and how your business tracks profit.
About Ledger & Light
At the Intersection of Agile Delivery and Cloud Finance
For growing British software agencies, dev shops, and tech startups running on Time & Materials (T&M), calculating true project profitability is an ongoing operational battle. Your engineering squads move fast—tracking sprints, tickets, and worklogs beautifully inside Jira. Meanwhile, your financial data sits completely isolated inside Xero.
When your project management infrastructure and your general ledger don’t speak the same language, a massive blind spot forms. Out-of-scope client revisions, developer overruns, and unlogged hours end up buried in Jira tickets instead of appearing on your client invoices. Founders are left with backward-looking financial reports, unpredictable cash flow, and a constant, manual spreadsheet battle to guess their true gross margins.
Ledger & Light was built to permanently close that gap.
The Hybrid Approach Your Agency Needs
Traditional accountants only look backward; they reconcile past bank statements but don’t understand sprint cadences. Traditional agile coaches look forward; they optimize velocity but ignore corporate margin pressures.
Leveraging my hybrid background as an AAT Accountant and an Agile Business Analyst, I resolve this operational friction. I don’t just give advice—I engineer automated, robust workflows that structurally map your delivery tools straight into your financial ecosystem:
- Epics become Xero Tracking Categories
- Logged Time feeds automated Cost Centres
- Sprints align cleanly with Financial Reporting Periods
The result for your agency is total clarity on project margins, automated employee utilisation tracking, zero data drift, and absolute confidence when pricing new client contracts.
The Ledger & Light Philosophy
We approach agency financials differently. Our practice is built on three core beliefs:
- Financial Visibility is an Engineering Metric: We believe engineers shouldn’t be insulated from financial reality. When developers have low-friction, clear tracking visibility, they naturally make better architectural decisions that protect company margins.
- Systems Over Scolding: When a budget overrun or an unbilled client revision occurs, it is never an individual compliance failure—it is a system design flaw. We build self-healing workflows and automated guardrails that prevent human error before it hits your ledger.
- Operational Calm: Financial clarity breeds operational peace. We eliminate the end-of-month spreadsheet panic and replace it with structured, predictable, and low-latency financial insights you can trust on auto-pilot.
Credentials & Trust
When you partner with Ledger & Light, your financial infrastructure is protected by verified industry credentials and strict professional standards:
- AAT Qualified (Association of Accounting Technicians): Ensuring all Xero ledger restructuring, chart of accounts revisions, and bookkeeping workflows adhere strictly to UK accounting standards and corporate compliance.
- Xero Associate Certified: Fully verified expertise within the cloud accounting ecosystem, leveraging advanced tracking parameters, automated bank rules, and native platform data pipelines.
- Agile Business Analysis Expertise: Deep operational experience mapping technical schemas, structuring workflows, and optimizing platform parameters within the Atlassian (Jira) ecosystem.
- Ledger&Light Agile FinOps Practitioner and AWS Cloud Practitioner
- AML and CDD Certified
- Fully Insured & UK Regulated: Politely maintaining absolute data privacy, secure credential management, and professional indemnity protection for your agency’s data path.
Ready to Align Your Systems?
Stop letting unbilled scope creep walk out the door. Let’s build a stable financial framework that mirrors exactly how your production team actually works.
