Bookkeeping
Daily entries, bank and card reconciliations, month-end close and catch-up work on books that have slipped.
ExploreAccounting & finance outsourcing · UK & US
Finance teams that work like your own.
Thames Global builds dedicated offshore accounting teams for firms and businesses in the UK and United States — bookkeeping, payroll, AP/AR, audit support and reporting, run by named people you meet before day one.
- Certification
- ISO 27001 & SOC 2 alignedLocked-down VDI, no local storage
- Commercials
- From £9 / $12 per hourFixed rates, no minimum term
- Coverage
- Full UK & US hours overlapSame-day answers, every working day
0+Finance staffAcross four delivery centres
0+Client firmsPractices and businesses
0+End clients servedThrough the firms we support
0 yrsIn operationTrading since 2026
01 — What we run
Eight finance functions, staffed and managed
Hand over one process or the whole finance function. Every engagement is staffed by named people, documented from day one, and reviewed by a senior before anything reaches you.
Accounts Payable
Invoice capture, three-way matching, approval routing and scheduled payment runs with a clean audit trail.
ExploreAccounts Receivable
Invoicing, ageing reviews, dunning cycles and cash application — so debtor days come down and stay down.
ExplorePayroll
UK RTI and US multi-state processing, pensions and tax filings, plus year-end P60, W-2 and 1099 reporting.
ExploreAudit & Assurance Support
Workpaper preparation, lead schedules, PBC chasing and tie-outs that keep your seniors on judgement work.
ExploreFinancial Modelling
Three-statement models, cash-flow forecasting, budgets and scenario planning built to be handed over cleanly.
ExploreManagement Accounts
Monthly reporting packs, variance commentary and board-ready dashboards delivered on a fixed calendar.
ExploreController & Virtual CFO
Senior oversight on the numbers, review of the close, and the strategic read your clients keep asking for.
Explore02 — Why Thames Global
Built as an extension of your firm, not a vendor
Outsourcing fails when the team is anonymous, the process is undocumented and nobody owns the outcome. The delivery model exists to fix exactly that.
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You meet the people
Named staff, introduced on a call before day one. No rotating pool, no anonymous ticket queue.
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Real hours overlap
Live overlap with both London and US Eastern working hours, so questions get answered the same day.
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Security you can audit
ISO 27001 and SOC 2 aligned controls, locked-down VDI, no local storage, NDAs signed down to the individual.
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Pricing that stays flat
Fixed hourly or monthly rates agreed up front. No change orders, no minimum-term traps, no discovery invoices.
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Reviewed before it reaches you
Every deliverable passes a senior reviewer. You receive finished work, not a first draft to correct.
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Scale in weeks, not quarters
Add or pause capacity on 30 days' notice — busy season staffed without a permanent payroll commitment.
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Documented from day one
We write the SOP as we learn your process, and you keep it. Continuity never depends on one person.
03 — Engagement
Three ways to work with us, compared
Pick by how much day-to-day control you want. You can switch models later without re-onboarding.
| Model | Model 01Staff Augmentation | Model 02 · most flexiblePay As You Go | Model 03Managed Service |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best for | Steady, predictable volume | Busy season and overflow | A full process handover |
| What you get | A dedicated FTE working only for your firm | Hourly capacity drawn on when needed | An owned process run against an SLA |
| Who directs the work | You do, day to day | You do, per task | We do — zero daily oversight |
| Commitment | Rolling monthly | None — pay only for hours worked | Rolling monthly per process |
| Pricing basis | Flat monthly rate | Approved timesheets | Fixed fee per process |
| Oversight from us | Team lead, weekly check-in | Team lead, per engagement | Named delivery manager |
| Time to start | 3 weeks | Under 2 weeks | 3–4 weeks |
04 — How it works
Live inside four weeks
A fixed onboarding sequence, so you know exactly what happens and when.
Week 01
Scope & price
We review volumes and systems, then send a costed proposal with the team named and the rate fixed.
Week 02
Access & security
VDI provisioned, role-based access granted, NDAs signed, and your security questionnaire answered in full.
Week 03
Shadow & document
Your team is observed doing the work. We write the SOP as we learn it — and you keep that document.
Week 04
Run in parallel
We run the process with your team reviewing, then take it over once output matches on two full cycles.
05 — Sector experience
We already know your chart of accounts
Teams trained on the reporting quirks, revenue recognition and compliance load of the sectors we serve most.
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Construction
WIP schedules, retentions, CIS and job costing I/02Manufacturing
Inventory, BOM costing and landed cost I/03Healthcare
Payor mix, claims reconciliation, multi-site payroll I/04Hospitality
Daily sales, tronc and tips, food cost variance I/05Retail & eCommerce
Multi-channel settlements, VAT and sales tax I/06Property
Service charges, rent rolls, SPV consolidations06 — Your stack
We work inside the software you already use
Xero
QuickBooks
Sage
NetSuite
Dext
Bill.com
FreeAgent
Gusto
ADP
BrightPay
Zoho Books
Ramp
Ready to take the close off your plate?
Send us one month of books or a single process to pilot. We scope it, price it, and show you the output before you commit to anything.
07 — Insights
Notes from the delivery floor
Practical writing on outsourcing finance work — what to hand over first, what to keep, and what it should cost.
Firm operations
What to outsource first when your firm is at capacity
The three processes that hand over cleanest — and the one you should almost never give away.
8 minRead →
Pricing
What offshore bookkeeping actually costs in 2026
Real rate ranges by seniority and region, and the hidden costs most quotes leave out.
6 minRead →
Close process
A month-end close checklist that survives handover
How to document a close so a new team runs it in week two rather than month three.
11 minRead →
Security
The security questions your clients will ask you
Twelve questions to put to any provider — and what a good answer actually sounds like.
7 minRead →
Receivables
Cutting debtor days by 18 without chasing harder
Why most collection problems are invoicing problems, and the sequence that fixes them.
9 minRead →
Capacity
Staffing busy season without hiring permanently
A capacity plan built around a 14-week peak, with the numbers behind each option.
10 minRead →
08 — FAQs
The questions we get asked first
Because routine transaction work consumes senior time that earns far more elsewhere. Firms typically move 60–70% of compliance hours offshore and redeploy that capacity into advisory, which carries three to four times the realisation rate. For businesses, it removes the cost and risk of hiring, training and replacing an in-house bookkeeper.
All work happens inside a locked-down virtual desktop with no local storage, no USB access and no personal email. Controls are aligned to ISO 27001 and SOC 2, access is role-based and logged, and every individual signs an NDA in addition to the firm-level agreement. You can audit the environment, and many clients do.
Dedicated staff start around £9 / $12 per hour for transactional roles and rise with seniority. Pay-as-you-go is billed against approved timesheets. Managed service is a fixed monthly fee per process, quoted once we've seen the volume. You get the number before you commit — we don't issue discovery invoices.
Two to four weeks depending on model. Week one is scoping and pricing, week two is access and security setup, week three we shadow your process and write the SOP, week four we run in parallel with your team reviewing. Full handover typically completes inside 30 days.
An FTE is your person: you assign the work, set priorities and manage them day to day. Managed service is our process: we own the outcome against an SLA and you receive the finished deliverable. Choose FTE when your process is unusual or changes often, managed service when it's stable and you'd rather stop thinking about it.
Yours. Our teams are trained across Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, NetSuite, FreeAgent, Dext, Bill.com and the common payroll and expense platforms in both markets. We adapt to your stack rather than asking you to migrate.
The SOP written during onboarding stays with the engagement, and a backup is cross-trained on your account from month one. Replacement is at our cost and there is no re-onboarding fee. Continuity is our obligation, not your risk.
09 — Get started
Tell us the volume. We'll send a costed proposal.
One business day for a reply, with a scoped team and a fixed rate. No obligation, no sales sequence.
Request received
A Thames Global lead will reply within one business day with a scoped proposal.
The monthly brief
Benchmarks, rate data and practical notes on running outsourced finance teams. One email a month.