{"id":764293,"date":"2024-03-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=764293"},"modified":"2024-03-28T07:43:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T05:43:05","slug":"business-talk-iridium-founder-simon-magner-on-the-advantages-of-admin-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/software\/764293\/business-talk-iridium-founder-simon-magner-on-the-advantages-of-admin-automation\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 Iridium founder Simon Magner on the advantages of admin automation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, Iridium Business Solutions founder and Managing Director Simon Magner explains why business owners must automate their administration tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Magner is a qualified Chartered Accountant and leads a team of tech-savvy Iridium accountants who deliver tailored and outsourced solutions to their clients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He boasts over 10 years of experience providing world-class cloud accounting, financial planning, tax compliance, and management consulting services to small and medium-sized businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to his skilled leadership, Iridium was named Xero Partner of the Year for 2023 and has become one of South Africa\u2019s foremost financial management and advisory assistance firms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The interview<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Magner begins the interview by explaining why he founded Iridium, before unpacking the company\u2019s relationship with cloud-based accounting software provider Xero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then details how Iridium works with its business owner clients to maximise the value of Xero&#8217;s world-class software, and provides insight into how admin automation benefits small and medium-sized businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He concludes the interview by expanding on the importance of Xero in Iridium\u2019s success \u2013 particularly focusing on Xero\u2019s admin automation features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watch the full interview with Simon Magner below.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/svEOxgsJr5g?si=9gIjuCkBX75DtNFP\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Magner has grown Iridium to exceptional heights through its partnership with cloud-based accounting software provider Xero. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":764299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15867,15424],"class_list":["post-764293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-iridium","tag-xero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764301,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764293\/revisions\/764301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}