For Service Firms

Saying no to clients your firm has earned?

Every “no” you give is a “yes” for the firm down the street. We deliver a vetted shortlist of native English-speaking Caribbean accountants in 7 business days. Seamlessly add a remote team so the work you earned actually stays with you.

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We only get paid after you hire • Pre-vetted candidates • 90-day replacement guarantee

7 days
First qualified shortlist
35%+
Or more in loaded-cost savings
EST/CST
Same business-day overlap
90-day
Replacement guarantee
The Real Problem

Your open roles are not waiting on better candidates. They are waiting on a better pipeline.

Dear Hiring Partner,

  • ✓ Do you keep turning down new engagements because your bench is already maxed out?
  • ✓ Are senior accounting roles sitting open past 80 days while competitors are getting hired for engagements you turned down?
  • ✓ Have you priced out offshore staffing and walked away because the quality felt like a guess?

You are not imagining it. The North American CPA pipeline has contracted by roughly a third in the last decade.

Demand for senior accountants, tax associates, and fund accountants has done the opposite.

The result is the squeeze your firm is feeling right now.

And the usual playbook is not working anymore.

  • Bigger search firm retainers, longer time-to-fill, and the same shortlist of overpriced candidates.
  • Generic offshore providers who cannot tell a senior auditor from a junior bookkeeper.
  • Contractor stop-gaps that disappear the moment your competitor flashes a higher rate.

Meanwhile every week you do not fix it has a real cost.

Engagements you cannot accept. Partners working work that should not be theirs. Revenue walking quietly to the firm down the street.

The fix is not another recruiter or a bigger budget.

It is a different pipeline.

You need vetted Caribbean accounting talent (degreed, ACCA-qualified, or actively pursuing credentials) placed under the employment model that fits your firm, with a shortlist on your desk in 7 business days, not 7 months.

That is the part nobody else is doing properly. And it is the only part of the staffing problem that actually moves the needle.

The Hiring Reality

Do not take our word for it. The data speaks for itself.

The leading sources in finance and accounting all tell the same story your hiring partners are living.

Why Synapse Global

Three things you do not get from anyone else

Not generic offshore. Not a recruiting tool. Not a payroll vendor. A staffing partner built specifically for North American professional service firms hiring Caribbean talent.

01

Tap a vetted Caribbean talent pool of degreed and credential-tracked accountants, and see your first shortlist in 7 business days.

Not generic offshore. A pre-screened pipeline of auditors, tax associates, fund accountants, and FP&A talent: university-degreed, ACCA-qualified, or actively progressing toward credentials, all trained on IFRS and comfortable working in US GAAP.

02

Choose direct placement or Employer of Record under one partner, so your firm picks the model that actually fits.

Most providers force one path. We deliver both. Direct placement when you have an entity and want full control. EOR when you want every compliance, payroll, and statutory detail handled for you. Same talent pool, your structure, your choice.

03

Lock in flat $400 per hire per month, so your costs scale with headcount, not with how well you pay your team.

Percentage-of-salary EOR pricing penalizes you every time you promote, retain, or reward a great hire. Our flat fee never moves. Your CFO can model next year in a spreadsheet without calling us.

What We Do

Two ways to put Caribbean talent on your team

Same vetting, same talent pool, two compliant employment structures. We help you pick the model that fits your firm, then we deliver the people.

Direct Placement

We find them. You hire them.

Best when you already operate a Caribbean entity, you are scaling a team beyond 20 hires in one country, or you want full direct-employer control with the lowest long-run cost.

  • Vetted shortlist in 7 business days
  • One-time placement fee, no ongoing per-head cost from us
  • You hold the contract and run payroll on your own entity
  • 90-day replacement guarantee on every placement
Discuss direct placement
Employer of Record

We find them, employ them, and stay out of your way.

Best when you are making your first 1 to 20 hires in a country, you do not want to stand up a local entity, or you want predictable per-head pricing with all the compliance built in.

  • Vetted shortlist in 7 business days
  • Flat $400 per hire per month, no percentage of salary
  • We hold the contract, run payroll, and own statutory compliance
  • You direct the work; the hire sits inside your team
  • 90-day replacement guarantee on every placement
Discuss EOR

Not sure which model fits? Read the full comparison guide →

Who We Serve

Built for the firms most exposed to the talent shortage

Our placements are concentrated where the capacity pressure is sharpest and the credentialing bar is highest.

Public accounting firms

Audit, tax, and advisory practices needing staff and senior-level capacity to meet engagement timelines and client commitments.

Fund administrators

NAV calculation, investor reporting, fund accounting, and middle-office operations across hedge, private equity, and venture vehicles.

Outsourced finance firms

Client accounting services, fractional CFO practices, and back-office providers scaling delivery teams beyond what local hiring can support.

Wealth and asset managers

Operations, compliance, performance reporting, and middle-office hires for RIAs and asset management firms with regulated workflows.

Law firms and litigation support

Forensic accountants, paralegals with finance specialties, and analytical support for litigation and dispute advisory practices.

Management consulting firms

Research, modeling, and analyst-level capacity for boutique consulting practices that need to scale engagement teams without permanent overhead.

The Cost Reality

And the cost of hiring locally keeps climbing.

The leading sources in accounting and finance all report the same trend. Pay is rising fast, and it is not slowing down.

Why Caribbean Talent

Quality, not compromise.

The Caribbean produces a steady pipeline of credentialed accounting and finance professionals trained on the same international standards your firm already uses. The talent is not a workaround. It is a deliberate sourcing decision firms are making to protect quality and margin at once.

Degreed
University-degreed in accounting, finance, or business
ACCA-track
Fully ACCA-qualified or actively pursuing the credential
EST/CST
Same business-day overlap, no overnight handoffs
English
Native English-speaking, no translation friction
The Caribbean accounting pipeline has held steady through the same period the US CPA pipeline contracted by roughly a third. Firms moving now lock in capacity before that gap closes.

Want the full picture on the ACCA credential and how it compares to CPA? Read the ACCA guide →

The Practitioner Advantage

Run by accountants who staffed US firms, so your brief never gets lost in translation.

Most offshore staffing providers are run by recruiters and platform operators. We are run by accountants who spent years inside US firms, staffing the same engagements you are trying to fill today. We have sat on your side of the desk.

That changes the intake. When you say "senior auditor, 5+ years on public clients, ASC 606 fluency," we already know what skills we are testing for, what experience separates the shortlist from the noise, and which candidates have actually carried that work through a busy season. No translation layer. No back-and-forth to clarify what a role really needs.

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How we read a role brief
You say
"Senior auditor, 5+ yrs public clients"
We hear
CPA or CPA-track, 5+ yrs Big 4 / mid-tier audit, US GAAP and PCAOB, SOX 404, ASC 606 or ASC 842
You say
"Fund accountant, NAV cycles"
We hear
3+ yrs fund accounting, Investran or Geneva, ASC 946 partnership accounting, NAV calc, allocations, Master-Feeder fund experience
No translation layer between you and the shortlist
The Cost Advantage

Protect your margin on every billable hire and save 35% or more without compromising quality.

Your billing rate is fixed by the market. Your salary line is not. Every staff or senior accountant your firm hires locally costs more than the last one, and the gap between what you bill and what you pay keeps closing.

Synapse Global places vetted Caribbean professionals at a fully-loaded cost 35% or more below comparable US hires, with the same credential bar and the same output quality. The margin you preserve on the first hire compounds across every additional seat.

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Illustrative annual base salary
Local hire
$92,000
Senior Accountant, US national avg
→
Caribbean hire
$40,000
via Synapse Global
35% or more saved per hire, year after year
The Speed Advantage

Your first vetted shortlist in 7 business days. So your next engagement does not slip a quarter.

The industry average to fill an accounting role is now 60 days or more (Fortune, 2025). Synapse Global delivers a qualified shortlist in 7 business days, with most placements signed inside 30 days.

While the firm down the street is still posting job ads, you are already staffing the engagement. That is six weeks of avoided overtime, missed close dates, and the kind of partner burnout that costs you good people.

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Your hiring timeline
Day 1
Discovery call
Day 2 to 6
Vetted talent mapping
Day 7
Shortlist delivered
Day 30
Hire onboarded
vs. 60-day industry average
The Collaboration Advantage

A hire who works your hours, joins your client calls, and turns work around the same day.

Offshore staffing from India or the Philippines saves you money but costs you in 11-hour time gaps, second-shift work, and a client deliverable that always lands a day late.

Synapse Global places Caribbean professionals in EST and CST time zones, who speak English as a first language and join your standups and client calls live. Reviews happen in real time. Workpapers come back the same day. Your firm operates as one team, not two.

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Right now
9:00 AM
Your firm, New York
• Online
8:00 to 9:00 AM
Your Synapse hire, Caribbean (EST & AST)
• Online
6:30 PM
Asia offshore option
Offline · End of their day
How It Works

From discovery call to a hire on your team

A structured four-step process. No portals to learn, no platforms to maintain. One point of contact from kickoff through placement.

1

Discovery call

30 minutes. We map the role, the engagement context, your tooling, and the employment model that fits.

2

Talent mapping

Days 2 to 6. We source, screen, and credential-verify against your brief. Only candidates who clear the bar move forward.

3

Shortlist on day 7

A curated shortlist of 3 to 6 candidates with profiles, work samples, and our recommendation. You interview the ones that fit.

4

Offer and onboard

We handle contracts, statutory paperwork, and onboarding logistics. Most hires are productive on your engagements inside two weeks.

Risk Reduction

The compliance, IP, and confidentiality questions your partners will ask

Answered upfront, in writing, before you ever sign.

IP and work product

Every placement signs an IP assignment that vests all work product with your firm, enforceable under Caribbean and US contract law.

Confidentiality and NDA

Standard NDAs on every placement; firm-specific or client-specific NDAs supported on request, including for SEC-registered work.

Statutory compliance

Local labor, tax, and statutory filings handled in full under EOR. Under direct placement, we hand you a compliance brief for your own counsel to review.

Background and credential checks

Credential verification (ACCA, CPA-track, CMA-equivalent), employment history, and background screening on every shortlisted candidate.

Data security

SOC 2-aligned controls on our internal systems. Hires can be provisioned into your existing security posture (MFA, VPN, device policy) on day one.

90-day replacement guarantee

If a placement does not work out in the first 90 days, we re-run the search at no charge. No fine print.

Book a 30-minute call. Leave with a written cost comparison and timeline for your top open role.

No pitch. No pressure. Pick a time below — tell us the role you cannot fill, and we will tell you which employment model fits, what it will cost fully loaded, and when you can realistically have someone billable.

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We only get paid after you hire · Pre-vetted candidates · 90-day replacement guarantee