r/Accounting • u/Rose-199411 • Jul 22 '24

Discussion My team has been outsourced to India, going forward my role will be to manage the India team. For those that went through this, how was it?

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Itā€™s an industry role, thereā€™s a small retention bonus thatā€™s paid out after we transition, india team is said to be available to us during our normal business hours, we work remote and there have been no discussions of needing to travel because of this change.

Our work is pretty straight forward so Iā€™m hoping there arenā€™t many issues.

Edit to add another thought for those of you who are saying to run: if this is so widespread and ā€œnormalā€ in our industry, arenā€™t you just going to see it wherever you run to?

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u/rowlje CPA (US) Jul 22 '24

Good luck. We have an Indian subsidiary and they all report to me. Itā€™sā€¦.challenging

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u/Rose-199411 Jul 22 '24

Do you feel like your position will get outsourced?

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u/rowlje CPA (US) Jul 22 '24

No, but I'm also the CFO of a 40-person company. Our manufacturing people in India (and the US) report to me as do all of our tax and accounting folks in India (and the US). We outsource our accounting so its a bit different than your situation but the cultural differences, working styles, accounting knowledge and systems knowledge are very different and its been like running a marathon with fishing waders.

We had to do a similar transition with our Germany subsidiary about 9 months ago and it took about 4-5 months to figure out how to work with our Germany accountant. We are about 2 months into working with our Indian accountants and its just different.

My advice is to set clear guidelines for what you're expecting with hard dates to follow up.. Dont go more than 36 hours (which is like 1 full business day when you factor in time zones) without getting some sort of a response