Global Capability Center

The entity, finance function and compliance backbone behind a Global Capability Center, built to scale past the first team.

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A Global Capability Center is a company’s own team in India, not a vendor relationship — and the difference matters most in what it takes to set one up properly. The entity has to be structured correctly, the finance and compliance backbone has to be built to scale past the first ten hires, and the reporting has to connect cleanly back to the global business from day one. We build that foundation and run the finance operations layer on an ongoing basis.

Entity structuring for a GCC

  • Wholly owned subsidiary structuring
  • Location and cost-structure input
  • Intercompany agreement structuring

Finance operations for the offshore team

  • Accounting and monthly close
  • Payroll and HR compliance
  • Statutory and regulatory compliance
  • Transfer pricing documentation

Reporting back to the global business

  • Management reporting mapped to the parent’s requirements
  • Intercompany invoicing and reconciliation
  • Audit coordination

Scaling past the first team

  • Organisational and cost-structure advisory
  • Benchmarking support
  • HR compliance at scale
Who this is for03 scenarios
How we engage04 steps
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    Structuring call

    function, intended headcount trajectory and reporting requirements to the global business reviewed, to shape both entity structure and the finance operations design.

What you receive

an incorporated entity structured for a GCC's specific commercial model, an intercompany services agreement, monthly finance operations and compliance, and management reporting formatted for the global business.

Why work with us03 reasons

  • Entity and finance function planned together

    The GCC's structure and its finance operations are designed as one exercise, not sequenced as separate, disconnected projects.

  • Built to scale past the pilot team

    Processes are designed with the GCC's growth trajectory in mind, so the finance function does not need to be rebuilt at fifty employees because it was only ever sized for ten.

  • Transfer pricing handled as a first-year discipline

    The intercompany services arrangement underpinning a GCC's cross-charges is documented correctly from the start, not addressed after the first audit query.

Frequently asked questions05 questions

Common questions, answered directly.

The queries that come up most often on global capability center engagements — answered plainly, without the hedging.

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What is a Global Capability Center, and how is it different from outsourcing?
A Global Capability Center is a wholly owned offshore unit — the company's own entity and own employees in India, performing functions such as engineering, finance operations, analytics or shared services for the global business. Outsourcing places that work with a third-party vendor; a GCC keeps it inside the company, with India as a location rather than a vendor relationship.
At what stage should a company set up a GCC rather than continue outsourcing?
The decision usually turns on control, cost at scale and institutional knowledge retention. Once an outsourced function grows large enough that vendor margins outweigh the cost of running it directly, or once the work is sensitive or strategic enough that a company wants direct control over hiring, retention and process, a GCC typically becomes the better structure.
Do you help with the entity setup, or only the ongoing finance operations?
Both. GCC entity structuring follows the same incorporation and registration process as our India Entry service, and we build the finance operations layer — accounting, payroll, compliance and reporting — on top of that entity from day one, so the two are planned together rather than as separate projects.
Can the finance function itself be one of the roles the GCC performs for the global business?
Yes — this is one of the more common GCC use cases we support: the Indian entity's finance team doesn't only manage its own local books, it performs finance operations (AP processing, reconciliations, reporting support) for the wider global group, in addition to its own statutory compliance.
How do you support scaling the team once the GCC is operational?
Through our HR & Payroll service for the growing headcount, and through ongoing advisory on organisational structure, cost benchmarking and process maturity as the center moves from an initial pilot team to a larger, more specialised function.

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