A finance and accounts support team from India
Routine finance work, handled by a dedicated team member who follows your accountant’s process and works in your accounting system, from a supervised office.
What finance support covers, and what it does not
Finance is one of the role families Lydon builds teams for, alongside admin and back office, customer, growth and technical roles. The seat is designed for the repeatable, process-driven work around your books, not for decisions or sign-offs.
Examples of tasks that suit a finance support seat:
- Entering and coding invoices and expenses in your accounting system.
- Preparing payables and receivables lists and following up on overdue items.
- Preparing bank and ledger reconciliations for your accountant to review.
- Raising invoices, statements and payment reminders from your templates.
- Updating cash and cost trackers and preparing routine reports.
- Organising supporting documents so month-end closes faster.
A finance support seat does not replace your accountant, auditor or tax adviser. Statutory filings, VAT and corporate tax submissions, audit and sign-offs stay with your licensed advisers and your own finance lead.
Why a supervised team suits financial data
Financial data is sensitive, so how the seat is set up matters as much as who fills it. The team works inside your accounting system using your logins, so the data never leaves your tools and you decide what each login can see. A mutual NDA is signed before any data moves, and the office has access control and CCTV. Our suggestion is to give the role the minimum access it needs, to use named logins rather than shared ones, and to keep approval and payment authority with your own staff.
Cost comparison
For the same function, the UAE route adds a visa, insurance, gratuity, a recruitment fee, a desk, office space and your own management time on top of salary. With Lydon those sit inside one rate per seat, quoted by role. We send the complete monthly cost together with your screened candidates, so you compare the full number, not just a salary.
Salary levels in India are lower than in Dubai for comparable roles. The cost page shows the document controller role as a worked example. Finance roles are quoted the same way: by role, with the complete monthly cost in front of you before you commit.
Working hours and month-end
The team works 10:00–19:00 India time, which is 08:30–17:30 in the UAE. Month-end deadlines fall in your working hours, so you can review work the same day. Agree a monthly calendar with your team: which reports are due when, who approves, and when you need the books ready for your accountant.
Your risk
Thirty days’ notice, a free replacement for a wrong fit in the first 30 days, and a replacement within 45 days if an employee resigns, without billing you for an empty seat. A Service Agreement with an SLA is signed, and ownership of work product is stated in writing. The risk page has the full set.
Setting up a finance support seat safely
- Give the person a named login in your accounting system with the minimum permissions needed. Do not share your own login.
- Keep payment approval, bank access and statutory filings with your own staff and advisers.
- Agree the month-end calendar: what is due, by when, and who reviews.
- Ask for a short written note of anything unusual each week, such as duplicated invoices, missing documents or unexplained differences.
- Review a sample of entries every week for the first month, then monthly.
These controls are ordinary good practice for any bookkeeping support, whether in the UAE or abroad. They also make the work easier to hand over if the team member changes.
Who this suits
Finance support suits owner-managed businesses and growing service companies where invoicing, data entry and reconciliation prep take up the time of a manager or a senior accountant. It lets your accountant spend the hours on review and advice instead of keying and chasing. If you have no finance lead at all, start by asking your accountant which tasks they would happily hand over, and build the role from that list.
Questions, answered
Can the team work in Zoho, QuickBooks, Tally or another system?
The team uses your systems and your logins. Tell us which system you use when you describe the role and we screen candidates against it.
Can this seat file my VAT or corporate tax?
No. Statutory filings stay with your licensed advisers. The seat supports the routine work around your books.
Who approves payments?
You do. We recommend keeping approval and payment authority with your own staff.
What if the person is not a good fit?
A wrong fit in the first 30 days gets a free replacement.
Start with one seat
Tell us the role. We send screened candidates together with the complete monthly cost. If it works, add a second. If it doesn’t, you’ve lost 30 days’ notice and nothing else.