GSS · Middle East Practice
من بنغالورو إلى الخليج — شريككم في المالية والمحاسبة

Your finance team, ninety minutes ahead.

Gusto Synergy Services delivers Finance & Accounting operations for Gulf businesses — from Bengaluru, in your working day, at a standard your auditors will notice. VAT, Corporate Tax, IFRS close, and full back-office capability, built with discipline.

Bengaluru · Delivery
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Our team, at their desks
Only 90 minutes apart — your full business day, covered live
Dubai · Riyadh · Doha
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Your business, in motion
Why the Middle East, why now

The Gulf's compliance landscape grew faster than its finance talent.

In under a decade, the region moved from largely tax-free to one of the most active regulatory environments in the world. Every new rule creates back-office work — and the local supply of qualified finance professionals hasn't kept pace. That gap is exactly what we fill.

United Arab Emirates

Corporate Tax is now real work

A 9% Corporate Tax regime with registration, transfer pricing documentation, and filing obligations means every UAE business now runs a genuine tax back office — whether it planned to or not.

Saudi Arabia

Vision 2030 moves fast

Rapid corporate formation, ZATCA's phased e-invoicing mandates, and audit-heavy VAT enforcement demand month-end discipline that many growing Saudi companies are still building.

Across the GCC

IFRS is the common language

Banks, auditors, and investors across the Gulf expect IFRS-compliant reporting. Our delivery team works in IFRS every day — your numbers arrive board-ready, not translation-ready.

What we do

Services framed around your pain points — not our org chart.

"Filing deadlines keep multiplying."

VAT & Corporate Tax Back-Office

Return preparation support, reconciliations, and e-invoicing readiness — working alongside your FTA- or ZATCA-registered tax agent, never around them. We do the heavy lifting; your local advisor signs with confidence.

Works with your existing tax agent · Zero-surprise filings
"Month-end takes too long and costs too much."

Full-Cycle F&A Operations

AP, AR, general ledger, month-end close, and IFRS-compliant management reporting, run as a disciplined production line with named owners and documented controls.

Track record: 610 accounts/month handled, average handling time cut from 83 to 42 hours on a global telecom engagement
"We want our own India back office — eventually."

Build-Operate-Transfer Capability Centres

We build your dedicated Bengaluru finance team, operate it to steady state, then transfer it to you — people, processes, and documentation included. You get a captive centre without the setup risk.

Leadership has scaled delivery teams from 7 to 107 FTEs across geographies
"I have the numbers, but not the answers."

CFO Decision Support

Queryable management reporting, scenario modelling, and cash-flow visibility that turn your ledger into something leadership can actually interrogate — before the board meeting, not after.

Delivered as dashboards your CFO can ask questions of, not just look at
The Bengaluru advantage

Closer than you think. More disciplined than you expect.

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Your day is our day

A 90-minute time difference means live collaboration through your entire working day — no overnight lag, no "we'll pick it up tomorrow." When you're at your desk, so are we.

40–60%

Cost discipline, not cost cutting

Savings against onshore hires, delivered by CA- and CMA-qualified professionals. You pay less because Bengaluru's talent market is deep — not because the work is shallow.

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A corridor we already know

India and the Gulf share the world's busiest business corridor — over a century of trade, trust, and shared working rhythm. We understand your calendar, your cadence, and your expectations.

How we protect your business

Small firm. Serious controls.

We're deliberately boutique — and we've built our governance so that our size is a feature, not a risk. Everything below is stated plainly, because Gulf clients verify claims. So do we.

Named delivery leads on every engagement

You know exactly who owns your account, your close, and your escalations — by name, from day one.

Contractual ramp structures

We scale your team in agreed, contracted stages — so capacity is guaranteed before it's promised, never after.

ISO 27001 certification — in progress

Our information security management system is being certified to ISO 27001, with ISO 9001 quality management running in parallel. We'll show you the roadmap.

GDPR-grade data discipline

Secured infrastructure, access controls, and data-handling practices built to European standards — which means they clear Gulf standards comfortably.

Documented transitions, tested handovers

Our transition methodology has moved finance operations across cities and countries without dropping a close. Handover is a process here, not an event.

A clean exit, if you ever want one

Every contract includes a defined exit path with full documentation transfer. Partners who make leaving easy rarely get left.

How we start

Pilot → Partner → Transfer

No long commitments to begin. Test us on one process, expand when the numbers prove themselves, and — if you want — end up owning your own capability centre.

Stage 1 · Pilot

One process, two weeks

Pick a single process — AP, reconciliations, a VAT return cycle. We run it at a fixed fee, with full transparency into how we work. You judge us on output, not promises.

Fixed fee · 2 weeks
Stage 2 · Partner

Your dedicated team

Named professionals working exclusively on your account, scaling in contracted stages as your volumes grow. Monthly reporting, quarterly reviews, no surprises.

Dedicated FTEs · Monthly
Stage 3 · Transfer

Own your capability centre

When you're ready, we transfer the team, processes, and documentation to your own entity — the full Build-Operate-Transfer promise, delivered.

BOT · On your timeline
Questions Gulf procurement always asks

Straight answers, up front.

Where does our data live, and who can see it?

All processing runs on secured infrastructure with role-based access controls. Data residency arrangements are agreed per engagement, and we work within your existing systems wherever possible — your data stays in your environment, we come to it.

Who do we actually contract with?

You contract directly with Gusto Synergy Services. The agreement covers scope, service levels, data protection, ramp stages, and a defined exit path — reviewed and signed before any work begins.

How quickly can a team start?

A two-week pilot can typically begin within days of scoping. Dedicated teams are stood up in contracted ramp stages, so the capacity you're promised is capacity that already exists.

Do you replace our local tax agent or auditor?

No — and we wouldn't want to. We do the preparation, reconciliation, and documentation work that makes your FTA- or ZATCA-registered advisor's job faster and their sign-off safer. Your local relationships stay exactly where they are.

What happens if we want to exit?

Every contract includes a documented exit process: full handover of working papers, process documentation, and transition support. We earn renewals on performance, not on lock-in.

لنتحدث قبل إقفال نهاية الشهر القادم

Let's talk before your next month-end close.

One conversation. No deck, no pressure — just a look at where your finance operation loses time, and what we'd do about it.

S Solomon
Head of Client Partnerships · Middle East