Services
Your back office,
run by specialists.
Spera takes on the routine-but-critical functions across the corporate-finance value chain — finance, funds, governance and compliance — so your team can spend its time on growth. Engage us for a single function or hand over your entire back office.
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Counsel
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Engage
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Manage
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Report
What we do
From incorporation to scale, one partner across every stage.
01 CFO Advisory
Financial and Operational Excellence
Empowering businesses with strategic financial insight, operational excellence, and informed decision-making. Our experienced advisors partner with organizations to optimize performance, drive sustainable growth, manage risk, and create long-term value.
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1/4
CFO Consulting
Virtual, interim and fractional CFOs for companies that need senior financial leadership without a full-time hire — from board reporting and cash-flow forecasting to fundraising and investor relations.
Cash-flow management
Board packs & MIS
Budgeting & Forecasting
Investor & Lending Reporting
Fundraising support
2/4
Accounting & FP&A
Day-to-day bookkeeping through to management reporting and financial planning. Accurate books, on time, with the analysis leadership actually uses to make decisions.
Bookkeeping
Management Reporting
Variance Analysis
Payroll coordination
Consolidations
3/4
M&A, Enterprise Consulting & Transformation
Deal and growth support: financial due diligence, ERP implementation and finance-function transformation for businesses moving to the next stage.
Financial due diligence
ERP & Systems
Process & Controls Designs
Post-merger integration
4/4
Business Valuations
Independent valuations for transactions, fundraising, ESOPs and financial reporting — defensible numbers when they matter most.
Independent valuations
Purchase Price Allocation
Share-based Payment Valuation
02 Fund Admin
Establishment to Admin
Our fund management services are designed to simplify fund operations, strengthen governance, and ensure regulatory compliance. From fund establishment to ongoing administration, we provide the expertise and infrastructure needed to support sustainable growth.
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1/4
Fund Administration
Complete fund administration — NAV, fund accounting, transfer agency and investor services across nine jurisdictions, delivered as a DFSA-regulated Category 4 administrator.
NAV & fund accounting
Transfer agency
Investor reporting
Regulatory filings
2/4
Fund Setup & Management Support
Structuring and launch support for funds in DIFC, ADGM, Cayman and beyond — including acting as the local agent for external fund managers entering the region.
Fund structuring
Launch & registration
Jurisdiction selection
Ongoing management support
3/4
Trustee & Audit Back-Office
Trustee services and audit-ready back-office support that keeps funds clean year-round and makes the annual audit a non-event.
Trustee services
Audit liaison
Books & records
4/4
Compliance-as-a-Service (Funds)
Outsourced fund compliance — AML/KYC, FATCA/CRS and regulatory reporting handled by people who do it across multiple jurisdictions daily.
AML/KYC
FATCA / CRS
Regulatory reporting
03 Globalization
Corporate Governance and Compliance
Supporting organizations with robust governance, regulatory compliance, and corporate administration to ensure transparency, accountability, and operational excellence. We provide end-to-end corporate services that enable businesses to focus on growth while meeting evolving regulatory requirements.
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1/5
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Frameworks, monitoring and reporting that hold to a high standard across every jurisdiction you operate in — without building the function in-house.
GRC Frameworks
Risk Monitoring
Policy & Controls
Regulatory Liaison
2/5
Corporate Service Provider (CSP)
Company secretarial and corporate administration: incorporations, registered agent, statutory filings and ongoing entity management.
Incorporations
Company Secretarial
Registered office/agent
Entity Management
3/5
Contracts & Obligations Management
A single source of truth for contracts — repository, deadline and renewal tracking, and risk-based negotiation support so nothing slips.
Contract Repository
Obligation Tracking
Risk-based Review
Negotiation Support
4/5
ESOP Implementation & Administration
End-to-end employee share schemes — design, valuation, documentation and the ongoing administration and accounting most teams underestimate.
Scheme Design
Valuation
Documentation
Ongoing Admin
5/5
Incubation & Startup Services
For new ventures: incorporation, back-office setup, seed-stage support and mentoring — the infrastructure to start operating fast.
New Incorporations
Back-office Setup
Seed-stage Support
Mentoring
04 Compliance
Integrated Compliance and Regulatory Support
Through our single point of coordination, we provide integrated compliance, governance, and regulatory support solutions tailored for regulated entities, fund managers, and financial institutions.
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1/5
Compliance as a Service (CaaS)
End-to-end compliance management including compliance monitoring, regulatory reporting, compliance health checks, risk assessments, and ongoing advisory support.
Compliance monitoring
Regulatory reporting
Health checks
Risk assessments
2/5
AML Officer Services
Provision of experienced Compliance Officers, MLROs, and DMLROs to support regulatory obligations, AML/CFT frameworks, internal controls, and ongoing compliance oversight.
Compliance Officers
MLROs & DMLROs
AML/CFT frameworks
Internal controls
3/5
AML / KYC as a Service
Comprehensive investor and client onboarding support including due diligence, sanctions screening, risk profiling, periodic reviews, and ongoing monitoring aligned with international AML standards.
Due diligence
Sanctions screening
Risk profiling
Periodic reviews
4/5
FATCA & CRS Compliance
Classification analysis, reporting support, documentation review, and ongoing compliance management under FATCA and CRS regulatory frameworks.
Classification analysis
Reporting support
Documentation review
Ongoing management
5/5
Corporate Directorship Services
Provision of experienced independent directors and governance professionals to strengthen oversight, fiduciary governance, and institutional credibility.
Independent directors
Fiduciary governance
Oversight
Institutional credibility
Engagement process
From first conversation to full delivery
A structured onboarding model with zero-billing discovery — we define scope with you before a single invoice is raised.
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Discovery & Gap Analysis
Signing of mutual NDA. We conduct a thorough gap analysis of your current processes, controls, and reporting at no cost.
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Management Analysis & Scope
We present findings to management with identified gaps for remediation, then define and agree the scope of engagement.
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Sign-off & Agreement
Management approval of approach, signing of service agreement, and agreement of billing structure and delivery timelines.
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Onboarding & Delivery
Team onboarding and commencement of work. Weekly work planners, monthly delivery reports, and error tracking from day one.
Principles
Four principles. Every engagement.
Trust & Reliability
A partner clients hand the keys to — accountable for outcomes, not just tasks.
Governance & Ethics
High standards held without exception, across every jurisdiction we operate in.
Client-centricity
We adapt to how you work — your systems or ours, your office or ours.
Continuous Improvement
Better controls and tighter processes, refined the longer we work together.