International clients
Vaz & Associates works with businesses in Singapore and South-East Asia, the UAE and the Gulf, the UK and Europe, the US and Canada, Australia, and East Africa, from Mumbai. The work is led by Ryan Vaz, FCA, a Fellow Chartered Accountant and Certified Forensic Accountant who has held CFO and finance controller roles in India, Uganda and Tanzania, often in multi-currency environments with lender reporting.
What the work covers
Each engagement is scoped in writing, run in your own systems, and reviewed by a chartered accountant.
Clean books in your own system, closed on a fixed calendar every month.
Senior finance leadership for a few days a month, without a full-time hire.
Models that investors, lenders and boards can follow and test.
Less manual work in recurring finance tasks, with controls kept intact.
Independent fact-finding where something does not add up.
For companies paying, hiring or selling in India.
Singapore and South-East Asia
Many businesses in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines have an Indian founder, an Indian subsidiary, or a finance team that works with India. The working day overlaps for most hours, so calls and month-end deadlines fit into normal office time.
Statutory filings and audits in Singapore and other countries remain with locally licensed professionals; the work here prepares the numbers they rely on.
Why it works remotely
More than 25 years of finance leadership across edible oil refining, cement, retail and highway construction, in India and East Africa, including multi-currency accounting, lender reporting and ERP migrations to SAP and Oracle. That experience is the basis for advice that fits how a business actually runs.
India Standard Time is two and a half hours behind Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong and covers most of their working day, as well as the full working day in the UAE and East Africa, the afternoon in Australia, the morning in the UK and Europe, and early morning or evening calls for the US and Canada. A fixed weekly call keeps the work on schedule.
Statutory audits and tax filings that your local law reserves for locally licensed accountants remain with them. The work here supports them with clean books, reconciliations and schedules, which usually makes their work faster and cheaper.
Yes. Bookkeeping, month-end close, management reporting and financial modelling can be done remotely in your own accounting system, such as QuickBooks Online, Xero or Zoho Books, following your country's accounting conventions. Statutory audit and tax filings that your local law reserves for locally licensed professionals remain with your local accountant, and the work is coordinated with them.
India Standard Time overlaps with most of the working day in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong, the full working day in the UAE and East Africa, the afternoon in Australia, the morning in the UK and Europe, and the early morning or late evening in the US. Weekly calls are scheduled in your time zone.
Work is done in your cloud accounting system with a user login you control, and documents are exchanged through a shared drive with access limited to the people involved. A confidentiality clause is part of every engagement letter.
Scope and fees are agreed in writing in an engagement letter before work begins, usually as a fixed monthly fee for recurring work. Invoices can be raised in US dollars, pounds, euros or dirhams and paid by international bank transfer.
Yes. Support covers Indian tax on payments to and from India, TDS on payments to non-residents and treaty relief, GST on cross-border services, and coordination of company and regulatory filings for an Indian subsidiary or branch with the relevant specialists.
Yes. Bookkeeping, month-end close, management reporting, financial models and finance automation are provided remotely to businesses in Singapore and South-East Asia, along with the Indian tax side of payments between India and Singapore under the India-Singapore tax treaty. Singapore statutory filings and audits stay with local corporate secretaries, tax agents and auditors.
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Phone +91 95384 16161 or email ryan@vazassociates.in. Office opposite Maxus Mall, L.T. Road, Borivali West, Mumbai 400092. Work can also be handled remotely.
