HR Companies & HR Consultants in Lebanon, NH

Gallagher, Flynn & Company, LLP, commonly known as GFC, is a CPA and professional services firm. Its main office is in South Burlington, Vermont, and it also has a New Hampshire office in Lebanon. Accounting and tax work form the core of the practice. The firm also runs a dedicated human resources group. That makes it an option for employers who want HR support coordinated with the same advisors who handle their finances, audits or tax matters.

HR services

The HR practice offers three services. They suit companies that lack an in-house HR department or need extra capacity for a defined initiative:

• Fractional HR Outsourcing: ongoing, part-time HR leadership and administration delivered by GFC staff
• HR Consulting Projects: scoped engagements that address a specific people-related need
• Talent Acquisition & Recruiting: help finding and hiring candidates

Mike Smith leads the group. He is a partner and holds both the SPHR and CPA designations, so his HR guidance comes with a financial perspective. Elena Spensley, SHRM-SCP, works with him as a strategic HR business advisor. Emma Shea's role centers on talent strategy and recruiting.

Who they serve

Most GFC clients are privately held organizations. They range from startups and nonprofits to private equity backed companies and large enterprises with revenue in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The firm says it works as part of the client's own team. It first learns how a business operates and then builds practical recommendations around its particular challenges. Many of its professionals worked at bigger metropolitan firms before settling in New England.

Broader capabilities

Because HR sits inside a fully integrated firm, clients can also use related services when needed:

• Tax compliance, strategic planning and R&D tax credits
• Financial statement services, employee benefit plan audits and nonprofit audits
• Fractional CFO and controller support, outsourced bookkeeping, and assessments
• Quality of earnings analysis, buy-side and sell-side due diligence, business valuations and litigation support

Benefit plan audits and transaction due diligence often overlap with HR concerns when a company is growing or changing ownership.

Background and credentials

The firm dates to 1959, when Robert C. Kelly and Laforrest H. Thompson founded an accounting practice in Burlington, Vermont. Michael D. Flynn and Edward Gallagher had both come aboard by 1972, and the current name was adopted in 1987. The Lebanon location was established in 2004, and an office in Ahmedabad, India followed in November 2022.

GFC reports roughly 100 employees and is led by managing partner Jason Hamilton, CPA. It holds CPA firm licenses in New Hampshire and Vermont and belongs to Aprio Alliance, a national association of CPA firms. In 2026 it announced a completed merger with BST & Co.

The firm has won repeated Accounting Today workplace awards. It was named Business of the Year in 2023 by the Lake Champlain regional chamber. It also appeared among Vermont's Best Places to Work every year from 2013 through 2024. For New Hampshire employers, GFC offers HR consulting from credentialed practitioners within a long-established accounting firm.