Outsourced Professional Administration Limited
Registered name: OUTSOURCED PROFESSIONAL ADMINISTRATION LIMITED
Part of Opal (UK) Holdings Limited groupOutsourced Professional Administration Limited made £8.1m revenue and £763k profit in the year to 30 Jun 2025.
Outsourced Professional Administration Limited’s revenue grew 28% to £8.1m in the year to 30 Jun 2025, with £763k profit and 78 employees. The company is classified under “other professional, scientific and technical activities” and is based in ST. Albans; we hold 3 years of its filed accounts.
- Status
- Active
- Location
- ST. Albans, East of England
- Age
- 32 yrs · since 1994
- Type
- Private Limited Company
Part of a group. The filing indicates this company sits within a group structure, so its results may depend on intra-group trading and it may be hard to replicate independently. From the filing: “The immediate and ultimate parent undertaking is OPAL (UK) Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales, which is the parent undertaking of the smallest and largest group to consolida”
Key figures
Badges are automated estimates derived from the filed figures — not statements of fact about the company.
Financial history
| Year to | 30 Jun 2023 | 30 Jun 2024 | 30 Jun 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disclosure | Full P&L | Full P&L | Full P&L |
| Profit & loss | |||
| Revenue (turnover) | £5.9m | £6.3m | £8.1m |
| Gross profit | £5.9m | £6.3m | £8.1m |
| Operating profit | £532k | £194k | £807k |
| Profit before tax | £594k | £345k | £951k |
| Profit after tax | £593k | £347k | £763k |
| Profit (best available) | £593k | £347k | £763k |
| Staff costs | £2.7m | £3m | £3.8m |
| Employees (average) | 65 | 69 | 78 |
| Ratios | |||
| Profit margin | 10.1% | 5.5% | 9.5% |
| Gross margin | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Revenue per employee | £90.5k | £91.6k | £103k |
| Profit per employee | £9.1k | £5k | £9.8k |
| Growth (year on year) | |||
| Revenue growth | — | ▲7.4% | ▲27.6% |
| Profit growth | — | ▼41.5% | ▲119.9% |
| Headcount growth | — | ▲6.2% | ▲13% |
| Balance sheet — indirect signals, not revenue | |||
| Cash at bank | £2.9m | £2.4m | £3.3m |
| Net assets | £6.2m | £6.5m | £6.1m |
| Fixed assets | £184k | £187k | £211k |
| Current assets | £6.7m | £7.4m | £7m |
| Debtors | £1m | £1.7m | £1.4m |
| Deferred income | £363k | £577k | £440k |
| Source | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Nov 2024 | FullAccounts · bulk data Oct 2025 |
How the business works
- Profit margin
- 9.5%
- Profit ÷ revenue.
- Gross margin
- 100%
- Gross profit ÷ revenue. High for software and services.
- Revenue per employee
- £103k
- Revenue ÷ average employees.
- Profit per employee
- £9.8k
- Profit ÷ average employees.
- Cash conversion
- —
- Cash generated from operations ÷ operating profit. Needs a cash-flow statement.
- Fixed assets ÷ revenue
- 2.6%
- Capital intensity. Low = capital-light, cheaper to start.
- Deferred income ÷ revenue
- 5.5%
- Customers paying upfront (subscriptions, deposits). Approximate when combined with accruals.
- Debtors ÷ revenue
- 17.7%
- Money owed by customers. Low = customers pay quickly.
Balance-sheet signals
Year-on-year changes in filed balance-sheet items. They can hint at momentum (or investment) but are not revenue or profit and must not be read as such.
- Net assets
- ▼7%
- Now £6.1m
- Cash at bank
- ▲40%
- Now £3.3m
- Headcount
- ▲13%
- Now 78
- Deferred income
- ▼24%
- Now £440k
- Fixed assets
- ▲13%
- Now £211k
Deferred income is reported together with accruals in this filing (“accruals and deferred income”), so it is an approximate signal only.
Group structure
Ownership chain
- Opal (UK) Holdings Limitedultimate parent75–100%
- Outsourced Professional Administration Limitedthis company
Bands show the share of ownership each company holds in the one below it.
Sister companies (1)
- Opal Information Systems LimitedRev. £200k · Profit £179k
From the Persons with Significant Control register (corporate controllers only).
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Sources
Latest figures from FullAccounts for the year to 30 Jun 2025 (profit £763k), from the Companies House accounts bulk data published Oct 2025. Spotted an error? Request a correction.
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