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The finance team you hire without hiring.

Dedicated accounting, tax and AML people for firms across the UAE and wider GCC — screened and reviewed by us, working to your priorities. We carry the employment. You direct the work.

  • Bookkeepers
  • Accountants
  • VAT preparers
  • Corporate tax
  • AML analysts
  • Payroll and AR/AP
A typical ramp at Dropxcel. The role is scoped and a shortlist goes out from working day one to day four, you interview and pick from day five to day seven, contracts, access and systems are set up on days eight and nine, and your new team member is working on your files on day ten.

From brief to bench

Working on your files by working day 10 — interviewed by you, employed by us, reviewed by our supervisor. Not a three-month hiring cycle.

Four ways to take a team

A seat, a pod, a surge or the whole managed function. You pick how much of the management you want to keep.

A dedicated seat

One full-time person on your bench, working for you and nobody else.

  • Your hours, your systems, your priorities
  • Reports to your manager, joins your stand-ups
  • A flat monthly rate per seat, not an hourly clock

A dedicated pod

A small team under one lead, sized to the volume you actually have.

  • Three to eight people with a named supervisor
  • One point of contact, not a queue of individuals
  • Add or release seats with notice, without rehiring

Overflow capacity

Cover the peak without carrying the headcount through the quiet months.

  • Filing deadlines, year-end and close-period surges
  • People who already know the compliance stack
  • Scoped and priced per engagement, then stood down

A managed function

The people plus the supervision — we own the output, not just the seats.

  • Our supervisor runs the work and the review
  • Agreed turnaround times and quality checks
  • You approve the output instead of managing the people

The seats we staff

Finance and accounting only. We do not pretend to staff anything we cannot review.

Bookkeeper
Daily entries, bank and payment-gateway reconciliation, ledger hygiene.
Accountant
Month-end close, supporting schedules and IFRS-aligned financial statements.
VAT preparer
Return preparation, input tax and blocked-credit checks, filing support.
Corporate tax associate
Registration and tax period setup, taxable income computation, relief analysis.
AML analyst
goAML registration and reporting, risk assessments, customer due diligence.
Payroll and AR/AP
Payment runs, collections and dunning, payroll cycles and monthly MIS.
Finance manager
Owns a pod, reviews the work before it leaves, and is who you call.

How it works

You interview the person before they start, and you know the monthly rate before that.

  1. Tell us the seat

    What the person owns, which systems they work in, the hours you need covered and the seniority you are paying for.

  2. A shortlist in a week

    We screen and test against that scorecard, then send you two or three people who passed. You interview them yourself.

  3. We handle the employment

    Contract, payroll, equipment and access sit with us. You get one invoice and no hiring overhead.

  4. They start on your bench

    Working your hours in your tools, with our supervisor reviewing output. If the fit is wrong, we replace rather than defend.

Why firms staff through us instead of hiring

Borrowed people only work if someone is accountable for their output. That is the part most staffing firms leave out.

They work for you, not a queue

A dedicated seat is assigned to your firm alone. Your priorities set the order of work, not ours.

Screened on the work

Every candidate completes a real test on real records before you ever see the CV.

A reviewer behind the seat

Our supervisor checks output on a sample. You get a person and a safety net, not just a person.

No hiring or payroll overhead

We employ them, pay them and equip them. Your side of it is a monthly invoice.

Replaced, not defended

If someone is not working out, we swap them on notice. No argument about whether the fit is real.

Senior capability, lower cost

Our people work from India, so a reviewed finance seat costs less than one local hire.

Who we staff

Firms and finance teams that need qualified hands on the work, not another vendor relationship.

Accounting and audit firms
Bench capacity for preparation work when your own team is at the ceiling.
Tax and compliance consultancies
Preparers who already know the the UAE VAT, corporate tax and AML stack.
Corporate service providers
Volume company administration and compliance work that has to be right and cheap.
Finance teams that are scaling
An in-house function that needs more hands, not another outsourced vendor.
Platform and fintech companies
Reconciliation, onboarding checks and finance operations at transaction volume.
Companies with no finance team
Not ready to manage people? Take the function outright instead — see below.

Or skip the people and take the outcome

Some clients would rather buy a finished finance function than manage one. We run it end to end, on a fixed monthly fee.

Accounting and bookkeeping

Your ledger kept current, coded and reconciled every month.

Books clean-up

Months or years behind? We rebuild it and tell you what we found.

VAT

Registration through to filing, reviewed before it goes out.

Corporate tax

Registration, computation and filing, with the position written down.

AML compliance

The policies, registrations and monitoring a regulator expects to see.

CFO consultation

Senior finance judgement without a full-time CFO on payroll.

Finance operations

The day-to-day finance function, run end to end.

Behind on your books? Start there.

We rebuild the backlog from source documents and give you a written summary of what we found — before you decide how far back to go.

Clean-up is quoted once, separately from the monthly fee.

Get your books assessed

Sound familiar?

  • Bank balances that have never reconciled
  • A suspense account nobody can explain
  • VAT returns filed on estimates
  • Last year’s accounts still not finalised
  • A bookkeeper who left mid-year

Questions we get asked

Not here? Ask us directly.

How quickly can someone start?

A shortlist within about a week of an agreed scorecard, and a person working on your files around working day ten. Overflow cover for a known deadline can move faster because the profile is already defined.

Who employs them?

We do. The contract, payroll, statutory obligations, equipment and leave cover sit with us in India. You direct the work and receive one monthly invoice.

Do they work our hours, in our systems?

Yes. Seats are staffed to your working hours and your stack — Zoho Books, QuickBooks, Xero, Tally, Odoo, Sage or whatever you already run. They work inside your environment, under your access controls.

Is the person exclusive to us?

A dedicated seat is yours alone and is not shared across clients. Overflow capacity is scoped per engagement and is not exclusive — we say which you are buying before you sign.

Who checks their work?

A supervisor on our side samples output and feeds back. That is a quality check on our people, not a substitute for your own review — final responsibility for what you issue stays with you.

What if the person is not working out?

We replace them on notice rather than argue about it. The replacement is screened against the same scorecard, and we carry the cost of the handover.

Do your people sign or file anything?

No. They prepare and support. Returns, reports and filings go out under your firm’s name, review and registration. Where a registered tax agent is required, that status is yours, not ours.

How is our data — and our clients’ data — protected?

Access is granted by role and reviewed, each client sits in a separate workspace, and every person on your account is individually bound by confidentiality. Where our people process personal data inside your records, they act on your documented instructions.

Can we hire them permanently?

Yes, on agreed terms. The conversion fee and the minimum period before it applies are written into the engagement letter rather than negotiated after you have decided.

What does it cost?

A flat monthly rate per seat, set by role and seniority, quoted in writing before anyone is shortlisted. No hourly billing and no recruitment fee on top.

Do you also just do the work outright?

Yes. If you would rather buy the outcome than manage a person, we run the finance function end to end on a fixed monthly fee — accounting, VAT, corporate tax, AML and reporting.

Rates, notice periods and replacement terms are set in the engagement letter. Anything said here about tax rules is general, changes, and is not confirmation that a rule applies to you.

Tell us the seat. We will send a shortlist.

What the person would own, which systems they work in and the hours you need covered. You get tested candidates and a monthly rate — before you commit to anything.

Email hello@finanshels.com