Finance and Accounting Outsourcing Selection and Transition

An F&A outsourcing execution playbook: weighted provider evaluation, ISAE 3402 and SOC 1 review, business case and payback, service levels and service credits, and transition wave gates.

Asset IDSTX-FAO01

CategoryPlaybooks

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Prepared byStratenity Advisory Team

Executive summary

An execution playbook for finance and accounting outsourcing: provider selection, business case, service levels and transition gates.

What is inside

What the playbook covers

The playbook starts from an agreed scope and delivery model and covers the baseline, provider evaluation with controls assurance review, the business case with payback, the service-level schedule and credits, and wave-by-wave transition with parallel-run exit criteria.

Baseline volumes, cost and controls per process
Weighted provider evaluation and controls assurance review
Business case with one-off costs and payback
Service-level schedule with formulas, data sources and credits
Transition waves that protect the close
Wave gates and parallel-run exit criteria
Five working tools and the review record

Stratenity Advisory Team. (2026). Finance and Accounting Outsourcing Selection and Transition. Stratenity Library. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/playbooks/finance-and-accounting-outsourcing-selection-and-transition

Stratenity Advisory Team. "Finance and Accounting Outsourcing Selection and Transition." Stratenity Library, 2026, www.stratenity.com/resources/library/playbooks/finance-and-accounting-outsourcing-selection-and-transition.

Stratenity Advisory Team. "Finance and Accounting Outsourcing Selection and Transition." Stratenity Library, 2026. https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/playbooks/finance-and-accounting-outsourcing-selection-and-transition.

Stratenity Advisory Team (2026) Finance and Accounting Outsourcing Selection and Transition. Stratenity Library. Available at: https://www.stratenity.com/resources/library/playbooks/finance-and-accounting-outsourcing-selection-and-transition (Accessed: the date of access).

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