We help global enterprises build, strengthen and operate finance and audit capabilities inside their global capability centres, with internationally qualified professionals, disciplined processes and controls your auditors can rely on.
Capability centres increasingly own global finance processes, from payables and receivables to reconciliations, reporting and audit support. The expectations have changed with that ownership.
Headquarters now expects the centre to run processes to international standards, evidence its controls without being chased, and supply qualified professionals who can work alongside global audit and finance teams.
Scaling the team is the easy part. Building a capability that auditors, controllers and regulators trust takes the right people, documented processes and consistent governance.
Signs your finance capability needs attention
Each capability comes with qualified professionals, documented processes and the governance to run it.
ACCA-qualified audit professionals who support your global and regional audit programmes.
Accurate, timely and controlled payables operations that protect vendor relationships.
Receivables operations that improve cash visibility and keep customer accounts clean.
Reconciliations and close support that give controllers a reliable picture, on time.
Controls designed into the process, so evidence exists before anyone asks for it.
Less manual effort and better visibility, built on your existing finance systems.
One partner across the lifecycle, from establishing a finance capability to operating it on your behalf.
Establish a finance or audit capability, structured correctly from day one.
Take on more processes, entities or regions without losing control.
Add qualified expertise and raise the maturity of existing teams.
Hand over a defined process. We run it to agreed service levels.
Move from processing to insight, automation and business partnering.
Every engagement starts with your process and control objectives. The team you need follows from the design.
We review the current process, controls, volumes, systems and skills, and where the gaps and risks sit.
You receive: a current-state and risk assessment.
We define the target operating model: process ownership, procedures, controls, KPIs and the team required.
You receive: a target operating model and transition plan.
We deploy qualified professionals, document procedures, set up controls and complete a structured knowledge transfer.
You receive: a working capability with documented procedures.
We run the process to agreed service levels, with regular performance reviews and a named practice lead.
You receive: reliable delivery and transparent reporting.
We reduce manual effort, strengthen controls and standardise across entities, period after period.
You receive: a continuous improvement roadmap.
From a single qualified specialist to a fully operated finance process. The model follows the problem.
An ACCA-qualified audit or finance professional, dedicated or shared, who strengthens your existing team and raises its standards.
Sminetech ownership: expertise
A small unit with a lead, specialists and a ready operating framework, for example an audit support pod or a payables pod, with procedures, KPIs and reporting.
Sminetech ownership: people and framework
A full team dedicated to a defined finance or audit capability, working inside your GCC with Sminetech practice leadership and governance.
Sminetech ownership: team and standards
We operate a defined process end to end, such as accounts payable or audit support, against agreed service levels. You own the outcome; we own the execution.
Sminetech ownership: end-to-end execution
We take on preparation, processing and evidence. Authorisation, approval and policy stay with your finance team. This is a typical split; it is tailored and written into every statement of work.
| Activity | Sminetech | Your organisation |
|---|---|---|
| Finance policies and approval limits | Complies | Sets |
| Invoice processing, matching and exceptions | Performs | Resolves escalations |
| Payment release | Prepares payment runs | Authorises |
| Cash application and collections support | Performs | Oversees |
| Reconciliations and journals | Prepares | Reviews and approves |
| Audit fieldwork and controls testing | Performs | Directs and signs off |
| Control evidence and audit trail | Produces and retains | Reviews |
| Procedures and process documentation | Writes and maintains | Owns |
| Performance reporting | Prepares | Reviews |
Illustrative split for a managed process. Specialist and team models keep more ownership with your organisation.
Baselined during transition, reported monthly and reviewed with your finance leadership. The exact set is tailored to your scope.
Accuracy and timeliness
Cash and customer health
Speed and reliability
Evidence and assurance
No new platforms to buy and no data leaving your environment. Our professionals operate within your existing systems of record, under your access model.
A global bank needed internationally qualified audit professionals and dependable finance operations to support its operations across geographies.
Sminetech provides ACCA-qualified international audit professionals, together with accounts payable and accounts receivable operations, working with the bank's global finance and audit teams.
Banks hold their audit and finance functions to the highest standards of rigour and confidentiality. The engagement shows how a dedicated capability centre can meet those expectations for a global institution.
Yes. Our international audit professionals are ACCA-qualified, and already support audit work for one of Japan's largest banks.
Yes. Our professionals work within your methodology, systems and access controls. Where procedures are missing or inconsistent, we help you document and standardise them.
Our professionals operate under your security policies and access controls, with confidentiality obligations set out in the contract. We follow the data handling rules you define.
Yes. Many clients begin with a single process, such as accounts payable or audit support, or with one qualified specialist, and extend once the model is proven.
Yes. Technology is our core practice, including a multi-year SRE and DevOps engagement with one of India's largest NBFCs. See our technology practice.
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