A controller-grade finance team, embedded in your business.
Satinwood is a senior finance talent firm. We embed finance operators from Sri Lanka full-time to own the close, reporting, and controls, for a fraction of building the same seat at home.
No long lock-in. Every match starts on a trial.
Senior finance judgment is expensive and scarce.
A strong controller runs six figures
The best finance leaders cost a fortune and are hard to find, harder to keep, and slow to hire.
Offshore usually means bookkeeping
Most providers give you junior transaction processing, not ownership of the close, the controls, or the reporting.
You should not overpay for judgment
The senior finance talent you want already exists. It is simply in the wrong place, at the wrong price.
Finance that runs without you.
Plenty of services will rent you an offshore generalist. We are built for one thing, and we are built by the people who actually do the job.
Finance is all we place
We place finance leaders and nothing else. No assistants, no marketing pool, no junior staff with a senior title.
Run by people who've scaled finance teams and businesses
The people who built Satinwood trained at Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Goldman Sachs, and Stanford, and have scaled finance functions themselves. We hire for that.
From one seat to a full finance function
Start with the role you need most, a controller or an FP&A lead, and scale to a full outsourced finance function at the same senior standard as you grow.
Embedded like a teammate
Embedded, exclusive, full-time, and fluent in modern finance tools and AI. They own outcomes the way a teammate does.
The seat you need, owned end to end.
Owns the close, the controls, the reporting package, and the integrity of your numbers.
Budgets, forecasts, board decks, and the analysis behind every decision.
Runs the day-to-day function, reconciliations, AP and AR, and the monthly cadence.
Hands-on ownership of the ledger, journals, and clean, investor-ready books.
A full finance team, for a fraction of one local hire.
Senior ownership of your close, controls, and reporting at a fraction of the cost of building the same seat at home. Most clients save well into six figures a year.
We will walk you through the numbers for your market on a call.
The seniority of a local hire, at a fraction of the cost.
The seniority and ownership of a local hire, the speed and cost of offshore, without the usual trade-offs of either.
| Local hire | Typical offshore | Satinwood | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seniority | Senior | Often junior | Always senior |
| Owns the close and controls | Yes | Task processing | Yes, end to end |
| Embedded and exclusive | Yes | Often pooled | Yes, full-time |
| Time to hire | Two to three months | Weeks | About two weeks |
| Relative cost | Six figures | Low, but limited | A fraction of a local hire |
The people who would run your finance function.
CA Sri Lanka, ACCA, CIMA, and CFA qualified, with experience inside global banks, Big Four firms, and listed groups. The same calibre the world's firms recruit.
15 years · ex-HSBC, WNS Global · led a 20-person reconciliation team for a US annuities book.
12 years · ex-Virtusa, LSEG · global budgeting, forecasting, and board reporting.
12 years · ex-WNS Global · ran AP, AR, and month-end across UK and EU clients.
8 years · Big Four trained · GL, journals, and audit-ready financials end to end.
Representative of our current bench. We hand-select the match for your business.
What it looks like when finance just runs.
I stopped doing the books and started running the business. The numbers are cleaner than they have ever been.
Finance ran on the founder. Month-end, retailer deductions and chargebacks, GL coding, and investor reporting all landed on one person. It did not scale, and the numbers were always a step behind.
Flourish embedded a Satinwood controller and a senior accountant. They took ownership of the close, reconciliations, retailer settlements, and the monthly reporting pack, running it inside the company's own tools.
A finance function that runs without the founder, with cleaner books and faster reporting, for a fraction of a local hire.
Our controller owns the close end to end. I stopped checking the numbers months ago. That is the highest compliment I can give.
We were paying a US firm three times as much for less ownership. The judgment we get now is what we were missing.
From first call to embedded, in weeks.
Discovery
We learn your close, your stack, your reporting cadence, and the seat you actually need filled.
Match
We hand-select a senior operator for your business. A considered match, not a stack of resumes.
Embed
A structured 90-day onboarding into your tools, your team, and your monthly rhythm.
Grow
Scale from one seat to a full finance function, at the same standard, as you grow.
Why the standard is different.
Sri Lanka has a deep, internationally trained finance profession, the same people the global firms recruit. We do not just place them. We hold them to a finance-only standard, train them on the tools your business runs on, and give them real ownership.
Crafted in Ceylon is not a tagline. It is where the standard comes from.
Run by people who own finance functions, so we hire for judgment and ownership, not keywords on a resume.
One vetting standard, built for finance. No generalist pool to dilute it.
Fluent in QuickBooks, NetSuite, Xero, and the AI tools that now run alongside them.
Real career paths mean our people stay, so your finance function has memory.
Built for how finance teams actually work.
Real working hours that overlap your day, agreed up front, so the close never waits.
Secure devices, NDAs, access controls, and clear handling standards for financial data.
Start on a trial. If it is not the right fit, we replace the match. The risk is ours.
Rolling engagement, scale up or down. No multi-year lock-in to get started.
The things finance leaders ask first.
Build a finance team, crafted in Ceylon.
Tell us the seat you need and pick a time below. We will come back with a hand-selected senior match.
- A 15-minute discovery call to understand the role
- A hand-selected senior match in about two weeks
- A trial period on every match. If it is not right, we replace it.
Prefer email? hello@satinwood.co