Professional Services
When you subcontract expertise, you also subcontract risk.
Consulting, legal, engineering and accounting firms bring in associates, specialist subcontractors and local partners to deliver client work. Independence, confidentiality and insurance requirements must be satisfied before they start.
Supplier relationships
Who you onboard, and what you need from them.
Typical suppliers and documentation in professional services. In Skuvet these become supplier categories with their own requirements.
Typical suppliers
- Associates and independent specialists
- Subcontracted firms
- Local partner firms in other jurisdictions
- Technology and data providers
Information and documents
- Professional indemnity insurance
- Confidentiality and data processing agreements
- Conflict and independence declarations
- Company, tax and bank details
The challenge
What makes onboarding hard in professional services.
Onboarding happens under engagement deadlines
Teams need a specialist next week, and documentation is collected after the work has begun.
Client terms flow down
Client contracts impose confidentiality and data requirements that must be passed to subcontractors and evidenced.
No single view of who is approved
Practice teams keep their own lists, and finance cannot tell which subcontractors are cleared.
How Skuvet applies
An example onboarding workflow.
An illustration of how a professional services organisation could configure Skuvet. Stages, checks and approvers are set to your own policies.
Subcontractors register with company and contact details and the services they provide.
Insurance, agreements and declarations are collected against the type of engagement.
Risk or legal reviewers handle exceptions such as missing declarations or insufficient cover.
Approved subcontractors are visible to practice and finance teams with the evidence attached.
Products and catalogues
Product onboarding does not usually apply. Skuvet is used for supplier registration, documentation and approvals.
Supplier & vendor onboarding →
Other industries
The same platform elsewhere.
Experience Skuvet
See how Skuvet would work for professional services.
Tell us about your suppliers, documents and systems. We will tailor the demonstration to your process.