OLIVER JAMES TOPCO LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-30 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2026-11-18 (in 6mo)
Last made up 2025-11-04
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£12M
+42.2% vs 2023
Net assets
£54M
-19.5% vs 2023
Employees
687
-16.3% vs 2023
Profit before tax
-£10M
+0.2% vs 2023
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £350,905,957 | £320,673,455 | |
| Operating profit | -£7,161,734 | -£7,349,595 | |
| Profit before tax | -£10,273,806 | -£10,256,803 | |
| Net profit | -£12,739,563 | -£11,890,403 | |
| Cash | £8,694,394 | £12,359,924 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £100,887,138 | £80,781,131 | |
| Net assets | £66,649,734 | £53,676,400 | |
| Equity | £66,649,734 | £53,676,400 | |
| Average employees | 821 | 687 | |
| Wages | £59,505,096 | £51,113,809 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -2.0% | -2.3% | |
| Net margin | -3.6% | -3.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | -7.1% | -9.1% | |
| Current ratio | 1.83x | 1.69x | |
| Interest cover | -2.08x | -2.35x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- BDO LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The directors have a reasonable expectation that the Group has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Thus, they continue to adopt the going concern basis of accounting in preparing the annual financial statements.”
Group structure
- OLIVER JAMES TOPCO LIMITED · parent
- Oliver James Midco Limited 100%
- Oliver James Bidco Limited 100%
- Oliver James Associates Group Limited 100%
- Oliver James Associates Limited 100%
- Oliver James Associates (HK) Limited 85%
- OJ Consulting Limited 85%
- Oliver James Associates (Singapore) Pte. Ltd 77.5%
- Oliver James Associates (Switzerland) AG 100%
- Oliver James Associates B.V. 95%
- Oliver James Professionals B.V. 90%
- Oliver James Associates GmbH 100%
- OJA Recruitment Limited 87.5%
- Oliver James Associates NV 85%
- Oliver James Associates LLC 82%
- Light Search Limited 100%
- Light Search Recruitment LLC 98.75%
- Oliver James Consulting S.R.L. 87.5%
- Oliver James Professionals N.V. 86.3%
- Oliver James Consulting Sdn.Bhd 75.5%
- Oliver James North Carolina LLC 94.5%
- Astral Search Limited 89%
- Tectevo Technology Limited 100%
- Oliver James Spain S.L. 85%
- Oliver James Antwerp B.V. 85%
- Oliver James Texas LLC 100%
- Avencia Consulting Services Limited 81%
- Oliver James Associates S.R.L. 82.5%
- Oliver James Professionals B.V. (Italian Branch) 82.5%
- Oliver James Switzerland Limited 89%
- Avencia Consulting LLC 85%
- Oliver James Holdco LLC 100%
Significant events
- “In November 2024, the Group repaid its outstanding loan notes with its external investor (originally due to mature in January 2025), through a new borrowing arrangement ("senior facility loan") with an external lender running to 8 November 2029.”
- “Oliver James Professionals BV Italian branch, was listed for sale earlier in the year, with the sale becoming effective on 1 January 2025.”
- “Establishment of an ESG Strategy, Framework & Governance Structure”
- “Several overseas offices have also relocated in financial year 2024”
- “Oliver James Holdco LLC was incorporated in 2024”
- “The Group launched a talent academy in the USA, offering a four-month training programme designed for recent graduates”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
5 active · 1 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CASTLE, Oliver Steven | Director | 2022-01-13 | May 1976 | British |
| EDWARDS, Graeme Anthony | Director | 2022-01-13 | Jun 1982 | British |
| MCRAE, Andrew James | Director | 2022-11-01 | Apr 1958 | British |
| STEEL, David Alexander John | Director | 2021-12-06 | Oct 1977 | British |
| WASE ROGERS, Nicholas James | Director | 2022-01-13 | Jul 1974 | British |
Show 1 resigned officer
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| SMITH, Alexander David | Director | 2022-11-01 | 2025-10-01 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Oliver Steven Castle | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2022-01-13 | Active |
| Mr Nicholas James Wase Rogers | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2022-01-13 | Active |
| Eso Investco Vii Equityco Sarl | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100%, Voting 75–100%, Appoints directors | 2021-12-06 | Ceased 2022-01-13 |
| Mr Richard Thomas Butler | Individual | ownership-of-shares-75-to-100-percent-as-firm, voting-rights-75-to-100-percent-as-firm, right-to-appoint-and-remove-directors-as-firm | 2021-12-06 | Ceased 2021-12-06 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 42 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-05-16 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-05-15 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-05-15 MA Memorandum articles
- 2024-05-15 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-05 | SH03 | capital | Capital return purchase own shares treasury capital date | |
| 2025-11-04 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-11-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-07-08 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-05-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-05-19 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-04-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-01-22 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-11-12 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2024-11-12 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-09-24 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-06-07 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2024-06-06 | RP04SH01 | capital | Second filing capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-05-31 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-05-16 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-05-15 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-05-15 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-05-15 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-04-16 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-11-16 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 6
- Capital events
- 3
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
-
Turnover
-8.6%
£350,905,957 £320,673,455
-
Cash
+42.2%
£8,694,394 £12,359,924
-
Net assets
-19.5%
£66,649,734 £53,676,400
-
Employees
-16.3%
821 687
-
Operating profit
-2.6%
-£7,161,734 -£7,349,595
-
Profit before tax
+0.2%
-£10,273,806 -£10,256,803
-
Wages
-14.1%
£59,505,096 £51,113,809
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers