The accountants you can’t hire locally, on your team.
Good accountants are hard to find and slow to hire. GSC gives you dedicated professionals who join your team, work in your systems and take direction from you, with senior review behind every piece of work.
What is offshore staffing?
Offshore accounting staffing is an engagement model in which dedicated finance and accounting professionals, based offshore, work as part of your own team. You set the priorities and direct the day-to-day work; they work in your systems and follow your processes, week after week.
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It is a staffing model, not a hand-off: you add people and capacity, not a finished function. At GSC, those people are drawn from a team of finance specialists, assigned by name to your account rather than pulled from a rotating queue, with senior review behind their work. GSC Outsourcing was founded in 2020. You can read more about GSC Outsourcing and the team behind it.
A team you know, not a queue.
An offshore team can support recurring accounting, tax preparation and review, financial analysis and operational admin.
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That covers bookkeeping, AP/AR and reconciliations, the month-end close, business and individual tax filings, forecasting and cash-flow analysis. Every role below is a real person, assigned to your account, not picked from a rotating queue.
Select one to see how it works alongside you.
The same work areas are covered in more depth on our Client Accounting Services, US Tax Compliance and CFO & Financial Planning service pages.
Your team works around your operation.
A lot of offshore support pulls from a shared bench: whoever happens to be free that day. A dedicated team is different: the same people, assigned to your account, who learn your business once instead of relearning it every time.
Who shows up to do the work?
"Whoever's free picks it up."
A different person each time. No one carries the context forward, so you end up re-explaining your business again and again.
Who shows up to do the work?
"The same person, every time."
Same Senior Accountant, every week. No re-explaining, no ramp-up, just someone who already knows how you work.
How much capacity does your finance team need?
Offshore staffing supports a growing finance team by adding capacity in defined increments, without a full local hiring cycle for every role.
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You can start with around 80 hours a month for a defined slice of work, move to a full-time equivalent at about 160 hours and add roles such as a reviewer, tax accountant or analyst as the workload grows. Capacity is reviewed and can flex up or down.
Start small
Half of a dedicated person. Enough for a defined slice of work, like AP or reconciliations.
One dedicated person
A full-time professional on your team every working day, learning your books and your way of working.
Several roles
Add a reviewer, tax accountant or analyst as the work grows. Each one assigned to you.
Capacity is reviewed regularly and can move up or down as your workload changes.
You stay in control. You direct the work.
You manage offshore professionals much as you would in-house staff: you set priorities, assign the work and speak with your team directly. GSC manages what sits behind them: senior review before work reaches you, capacity reviews, security and continuity.
Staffing gives you people and capacity, not the whole function handed away. Work moves in a loop, not a one-way hand-off:
- 01You set the priorities. What matters this week, this close, this filing.
- 02The team executes. Your team works through the defined scope.
- 03Review checks it. A senior review happens before anything reaches you.
The team works in the platforms you already use (QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite or Sage, with Ramp or Gusto for AP and payroll). Automation helps with data processing and reconciliation and a person reviews every output. See how GSC uses technology and automation.
The people are only part of the model.
Behind every person sits senior review, cover when someone is out, security controls and regular capacity reviews.
Dedicated people, working in your systems.
You direct the day-to-day work. Everything on the right runs behind them, so you never have to manage it.
Layered review
A senior reviewer checks the team’s work before it reaches you.
Cover when someone is out
A backup who knows your account steps in, so the work keeps moving.
Work that moves overnight
Hand work over at the end of your day and pick it up moved forward.
ISO 27001 security
Role-based access, every access logged, under GSC’s ISO 27001 controls.
People who stay
We work to keep the same people on your account, so the knowledge stays too.
Regular capacity reviews
Together we check the team is still the right size for your workload.
How your team is built and onboarded.
Teams are built around the work: you describe the gap, we map it to roles and hours and dedicated people are assigned to your account.
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Onboarding is a knowledge transfer: the team learns your systems, processes and context and agrees a working cadence with you before regular work begins. From there, roles and capacity are reviewed as your needs change.
Tell us what you need
Walk us through the gap you're trying to fill.
Define roles + workload
We map the roles that match the work.
Build the team
Dedicated people are assigned to your account.
Systems + knowledge transfer
The team learns your systems and context.
Start working
Your team begins on its agreed cadence.
Review + optimize
Capacity and roles adjust as your needs change.
Who uses offshore staffing.
Offshore staffing suits organizations that need more finance and accounting capacity but want to keep directing the work themselves. It works best when your processes and systems are already in place and the constraint is people, not structure.
- 01Accounting and CPA firms. Extra capacity for busy season or year-round, including white-label support that works behind the firm's brand.
- 02Growing businesses with a finance lead. A controller, finance manager or CFO who wants dedicated people running bookkeeping, close and reporting under their direction.
- 03Finance teams with a hiring gap. Roles that are hard to fill locally or a workload that has outgrown the current team.
- 04Not the right fit? If you would rather hand over a function and receive the output, outsourcing is usually the closer fit.
Offshore staffing vs. outsourcing.
The difference between outsourcing and offshore staffing is who manages the day-to-day work.
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With offshore staffing, dedicated professionals join your team and take direction from you. With outsourcing, GSC takes responsibility for delivering a defined finance function and manages the process itself. Both use dedicated GSC teams with review built in; neither is better in general, they suit different situations.
Offshore Staffing
Dedicated professionals as an extension of your team.
- You set priorities and direct the daily work
- The team works in your systems and workflows
- You scale by adding roles or hours
- Fits when you have processes and need capacity
Outsourcing
GSC runs a defined finance function for you.
- GSC manages the workflow and deadlines
- You receive agreed deliverables and reporting
- You review outcomes rather than assign tasks
- Fits when you would rather hand over the function
How your team works with your data.
Frequently asked questions.
Straight answers to what people ask us before they hand over the work.
What is offshore accounting staffing?
How does offshore staffing work?
What is the difference between outsourcing and offshore staffing?
Who uses offshore finance teams?
How are offshore professionals managed?
How can offshore staffing support a growing finance team?
Are team members dedicated to us?
Can we choose the roles we need?
Can we start with part-time support?
What's the difference between 80 hours and an FTE?
Can the team work under our brand?
Will clients know GSC is involved?
Can team capacity change over time?
How does GSC handle quality review?
How quickly can a team get started?
Is there a minimum contract term?
You don't have to build the whole team yourself.
Tell us the roles you're struggling to fill, the work that's piling up and the capacity you need. We'll help you design the team around it.
Prefer to reach us directly? Email sales@gscoutsourcing.com, call +1 (213) 221 8651 or visit the GSC Outsourcing contact page.