For startups, growing companies and solo founders
A finance function before you need a CFO
A bookkeeper and an accountant handle invoicing, reconciliations, the monthly close and reporting, so the numbers are ready when you need them.
- The SoTalented Office Guarantee
- Works in your time zone
- $0 until you hire
Sound familiar.
- Month-end close takes two weeks.
- A founder still approves every invoice.
- Your external accountant gets a shoebox once a quarter.
For example
Say you’re past the stage where a founder can do the books, and nowhere near needing a CFO. Close takes two weeks, invoices wait on a founder, and the numbers arrive after the decisions.
Add a bookkeeper and an accountant in your satellite office. The bookkeeper keeps transactions, invoicing and reconciliations current. The accountant runs the monthly close and prepares the P&L, balance sheet and cash flow, clean enough to share.
Your external accountant gets clean books, and you get numbers in time to use them.
What you’d set up.
Every seat is dedicated to your company and never shared. Prices are per person, per month, all-inclusive, and differ by level.
Bookkeeper
from $1,200 a month
What they’ll own
- Records and categorises transactions in QuickBooks or Xero
- Issues invoices, tracks payments and chases overdue accounts
- Reconciles accounts
- Prepares monthly summaries you can actually read
Accountant
from $1,500 a month
What they’ll own
- Reconciles accounts and keeps the ledger current
- Runs the monthly close
- Prepares the P&L, balance sheet and cash flow
- Handles accounts payable and receivable
Start with one seat and add the next when it’s working. $0 until your first hire starts, and 30 days notice to scale down.
What’s inside every seatYour bookkeeper is working in about three weeks.
Here is exactly what happens after you say yes, week by week.
Week one
We find them
- We do
- Write the job description, source, screen and run the technical assessment.
- You do
- Brief us on the role and sign the brief.
Week two
You choose
- We do
- Check English and time zone, then run background verification, references and the offer.
- You do
- Interview a shortlist that has already passed the assessment, and choose.
Week three
They start
- We do
- Contracts, benefits, desk, equipment and software access, all in place.
- You do
- Welcome them.
Day one
They start.
You start paying here. Until then, you pay nothing.
A bookkeeping service, or a finance seat of your own.
Here’s what changes when the people keeping your books work only for you.
Compare with
Finds and vets the person
Works only for you
A real office to work fromOnly with SoTalented
Payroll and compliance
Looked after once they start
One invoice
Replaced if the fit is wrong
Time to someone working
Finds and vets the person
Works only for you
A real office to work fromOnly with SoTalented
Payroll and compliance
Looked after once they start
One invoice
Replaced if the fit is wrong
Time to someone working
Finds and vets the person
Works only for you
A real office to work fromOnly with SoTalented
Payroll and compliance
Looked after once they start
One invoice
Replaced if the fit is wrong
Time to someone working
Finds and vets the person
Works only for you
A real office to work fromOnly with SoTalented
Payroll and compliance
Looked after once they start
One invoice
Replaced if the fit is wrong
Time to someone working
The SoTalented Office Guarantee
Hire with confidence. The risk is ours.
Four promises behind every person who joins your office.
Right person
What if they are not the right fit?
We replace them inside 30 days, free.
No questions asked. Tell us it is not working, and the replacement is on us.
Right office
Where will they actually work?
In a premium SoTalented Satellite Office in India.
WeWork-grade workspace in Bangalore or Jaipur, with reliable internet, power backup, IT support and security in place.
Right management
Who looks after them once they start?
We do, across 42 touchpoints.
You interview and approve. Payroll, HR, reviews, growth and a clean exit are ours.
Right terms
What am I signing up for?
Nothing, until your first hire starts.
Then one invoice a month, no long-term contract, and 30 days notice to scale down.
Do they replace our external accountant?
No. They do the ongoing work and prepare clean books and statements for your accountant, who keeps the sign-off.
Which systems do they use?
QuickBooks or Xero, in your own account.
Is our financial data safe?
Every hire is background verified and signs an NDA before day one, and access stays on your accounts.
What does a seat cost?
It depends on the role and the level. Every price is all-inclusive: salary, benefits, payroll, compliance, office, IT and equipment, on one invoice. Each role’s bands are on its page.
Can I start with one seat?
Yes. You pay nothing until your first hire starts, add seats when it works, and give 30 days notice to scale down.
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Any role
Start with one seat.
Tell us your situation on a call. We’ll tell you honestly whether a satellite office fits it, and what it would cost.