Built by operators who've lived agency finance.
Salt extends your finance team across ten countries — bookkeeping to CFO — with the security posture of a firm that takes other people's capital seriously.
Salt was born inside Qognition Agency, a digital agency that felt every edge of finance operations first-hand — utilization rates, project profitability, retainer revenue recognition, and the gap between a bookkeeper and a CFO.
We understand your numbers because we've reported on them ourselves. That operator empathy — combined with elite, multi-jurisdiction finance teams — is what separates us from US-only providers like Bench and Pilot.
The firm is led by accountants and technologists together — people who close books, and people who build the systems the books run on. That pairing is deliberate. Most of what goes wrong in a set of accounts is not an accounting mistake; it is a broken integration, a duplicated feed, or a chart of accounts that stopped matching how the business actually operates. Having both disciplines in the room means those get diagnosed rather than reconciled around every month.
Today we run finance operations for startups, agencies, e-commerce brands and CPA firms across the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Netherlands, Singapore, the UAE and New Zealand.
Process over price
We don't sell cheap labour. We sell secure, process-driven finance operations you can trust at scale.
We've reported on your metrics
Born inside Qognition Agency, we've lived utilization, project P&L and retainer recognition ourselves.
Security is architectural
Zero-local-data, VPN-only access and multi-jurisdictional NDAs aren't add-ons — they're how we're built.
Clarity, not just compliance
We help founders understand where the money's going, not just file what the rules require.
10
Countries served
13
Finance disciplines
70%
Below local hiring cost
24h
To a written quote
Qualified, vetted, accountable.
Our delivery leads hold local accounting qualifications and are matched to your software and workflow before they touch a file. Every engagement is staffed across four roles, so cover never depends on one person.
Delivery Lead
Owns your ledger, month-end close and reporting pack inside your own stack.
Compliance Lead
Handles local filings — VAT, GST, sales tax and statutory returns — on local deadlines.
CFO Advisory
Forecasting, runway, pricing and board-ready reporting when you need the altitude.
Client Success
Your escalation path, SLA owner and single point of contact across time zones.
Salt Accounting Group does not hold itself out as a registered tax or BAS agent. Where a jurisdiction requires a registered agent to lodge a filing, we tell you in writing who lodges it and under whose registration, before the engagement starts. Any membership or registration a person above holds is held by that individual, not by the firm.
We do not publish professional designations here yet. Several of the people above hold them, but a designation you cannot check on the issuing body's own register in under a minute is worth less than none — so they go up when their register links do, and not before.
What the first month actually looks like.
Not a sales process — the delivery one. Published so you can hold us to the dates before you sign anything.
Day 1
Step 1 of 4
The day the scope is signed
Paperwork and people before access.
Nothing is opened, connected or downloaded until the contractual position is settled and you know the name of the person who will be in your ledger. This order is deliberate — it is the part most providers do last.
What we do
- Execute a multi-jurisdictional NDA covering every country in scope, before any access request is made.
- Confirm the written scope and fixed price you were quoted within 24 hours of the discovery call — the same document, unchanged.
- Assign and introduce your delivery lead by name, matched to your accounting software and workflow before they open a file.
- Name your single point of contact and the escalation path behind them, so cover never depends on one person being awake.
What we need from you
- Countersigned NDA and scope.
- The name of the person on your side who can answer coding questions — the one who knows what a transaction actually was.
- A list of every legal entity and jurisdiction in scope, including dormant ones.
You end up holding A signed NDA, a fixed written scope, and the name of the person doing the work.
Week 1
Step 2 of 4
First five working days
We read the whole file before we change anything.
The first week is diagnosis, not production. We would rather tell you in week one that the opening balances do not tie than discover it in month three, which is why every case study on this site has a “what we found” section.
What we do
- Take least-privilege access inside your own platform — QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite or Zoho — scoped to what the engagement requires and nothing more. Nothing is copied to a local drive.
- Review the current state: bank and card reconciliation status, chart of accounts, opening balances, control and suspense accounts, and anything sitting unreconciled.
- Map the filing calendar for the next twelve months across every jurisdiction in scope, owned by the compliance team rather than the bookkeeping team.
- Fix the close calendar — the specific date each month your reviewed statements land.
What we need from you
- Access granted by you, inside your platform, to the named individual — not a shared login handed over by email.
- Your last filed statutory accounts and returns for each entity.
- Payroll provider details where payroll is in scope.
You end up holding A written findings note: what is clean, what is not, what will need restating, and what we cannot answer without documents from you.
Month 1
Step 3 of 4
First full close under our calendar
The first close is the real test.
Month one is where a handover either holds or does not. It runs on the same fixed calendar every subsequent month will, so you are seeing the steady state rather than a launch effort.
What we do
- Run the first month-end close: reviewed P&L, balance sheet and reconciliation pack, delivered within 7–10 business days of month-end.
- Correct anything from the week-one findings that belongs in the current period. Historic restatement is quoted separately as a catch-up or cleanup project, in writing, before it starts.
- Prepare the first filings that fall due where compliance is in scope. Where your jurisdiction requires a registered agent to lodge, we tell you in writing who lodges and under whose registration — we do not hold the firm out as a registered agent.
- Hold a 30-day review with your delivery lead against the findings note, so the two documents can be compared line by line.
What we need from you
- Source documents for anything the week-one review flagged as unsupported.
- A decision on any historic restatement we have quoted.
- Half an hour for the 30-day review.
You end up holding Your first reviewed month-end pack, plus a closed-out findings note.
Ongoing
Step 4 of 4
Every month after
A fixed calendar, and no surprise invoices.
Steady state is deliberately boring. The value is that the dates do not move, the person does not change without notice, and the price does not change without a written re-quote first.
What we do
- Reconcile bank and card accounts weekly, so month-end is a review rather than a reconstruction.
- Deliver reviewed monthly statements within 7–10 business days of month-end, on the fixed calendar agreed in week one.
- Track filing deadlines in every jurisdiction in scope through a compliance team kept separate from bookkeeping, so liability and pricing stay clean.
- Re-quote in writing before scope changes are worked — not on the next invoice.
What we need from you
- Documents and coding answers within the agreed window each month.
- Notice of anything structural: a new entity, a new country, a new revenue model, an acquisition.
You end up holding A reviewed monthly pack on a date you can put in a calendar, indefinitely.
The onboarding checklist
Published in full, split by who owns each item. You can see the whole ask before the first call, and it is obvious which side is holding a delay.
What we bring
- Multi-jurisdictional NDADrafted and executed for every country in scope before any access is requested.
- Fixed written scope and priceWithin 24 hours of the discovery call. No open-ended hourly billing.
- Named delivery lead and coverA named person, plus the escalation path behind them, before onboarding starts.
- Twelve-month deadline mapEvery filing date across every jurisdiction in scope, produced in week one.
- Close calendarThe date each month your reviewed statements land, fixed and not moved.
- Written findings noteWhat is clean, what is not, and what we could not verify — end of week one.
What we need from you
- Scoped access to your platformGranted by you, inside QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite or Zoho, to the named individual. Never a shared login.
- Connected bank and card feedsLive feeds beat exported statements — they are what makes weekly reconciliation possible.
- Last filed accounts and returnsPer entity. This is what opening balances are tied back to.
- Entity and jurisdiction listIncluding dormant entities and any country you have registered in but stopped trading in.
- Payroll provider detailsWhere payroll is in scope, including the filing cadence you are currently on.
- One person who can answer coding questionsThe person who knows what an unlabelled transaction actually was. Nothing slows a close more.
Frequently asked questions
Get a written quote in 24 hours.
Tell us where you trade and what shape the books are in. You get scope, price and a start date in writing within one business day — no obligation.