Auxis is a nearshore outsourcing and business transformation firm, founded in 1997 and headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, that serves US companies from delivery centres in Costa Rica, Colombia and Mexico. Its core business is finance and accounting outsourcing, supported by IT operations, business process outsourcing, intelligent automation and shared services consulting. Grant Thornton Advisors LLC describes it as a nearshore-outsourcing and business-modernization pioneer.
Its origins explain its positioning. Auxis was founded by a group of PepsiCo colleagues who, after leading a transformation project in Latin America, concluded that mid-sized companies needed access to the consulting quality usually reserved for large enterprises. The firm began as a consultancy, added outsourcing, and in 2010 launched its first capabilities centre in Costa Rica, which made it one of the early providers of nearshore finance and accounting services for US clients.
The defining recent event is its acquisition by Grant Thornton. In September 2025 Grant Thornton Advisors LLC completed a transaction to join forces with Auxis, and Auxis is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Grant Thornton Advisors LLC. At the time Auxis had more than 1,400 professionals across Costa Rica, Colombia and the US. The deal turns Auxis into the outsourcing and operate arm of a large advisory and accounting firm, and it competes with the managed services businesses of other accounting firms as well as with nearshore BPO specialists.
Since joining Grant Thornton, Auxis has expanded quickly in Colombia. In August 2026 it opened a new Bogotá outsourcing centre, its second major capabilities centre in Colombia, and announced plans to hire more than 500 bilingual professionals there. It has also built a recognised automation practice: in March 2026 it earned UiPath Diamond Partner status.
Outsource Accelerator's directory profile describes Auxis Consulting & Outsourcing as founded in 1997 with the purpose of providing a unique alternative to the traditional consulting model, a framing that still fits its mix of advisory and operations work.
Services & Capabilities
Auxis describes its model as operate to transform: running clients' finance, IT and business processes from Latin America while redesigning and automating them. The platform records its service lines as AI & Automation Services, Back Office - Document Processing, Finance & Accounting, Supply Chain & Logistics and Technical Support.
- Finance and accounting outsourcing: the core of the business, covering procure-to-pay, order-to-cash and record-to-report. Current hiring for accounts payable specialists and clerks, a senior accounts receivable clerk and a staff accountant in Bogotá, and procurement specialists in Mexico and Colombia, shows where volume is growing.
- IT services: IT operations and infrastructure management, service desk and cybersecurity. Postings for a level 2 service desk analyst, a CSIRT incident responder manager and an information security audit and GRC manager in Bogotá show a security operations capability alongside support.
- Business process outsourcing: customer service, HR operations and healthcare revenue cycle work. Openings for a healthcare analyst and a junior appeals specialist in Costa Rica point to insurance claims and appeals processing for US healthcare clients.
- Intelligent automation: RPA and AI delivery, built around its UiPath partnership.
- Consulting: shared services strategy, finance transformation, digital transformation, and M&A integration and private equity services.
The new Bogotá centre was set up to provide finance, IT, cybersecurity, HR, customer service and specialised industry functions.
Market recognition: In late 2025 Auxis was named a top finance and accounting outsourcing company in the 2025 ISG Provider Lens for FAO services, and in Everest Group's Finance and Accounting Outsourcing PEAK Matrix Assessment 2025. Outsource Accelerator's directory profile notes that Auxis was the only true nearshore player on Everest Group's PEAK Matrix for FAO Services in its 2023 assessment.
The breadth of the offer is unusual for a nearshore provider of its size. Most Latin American BPO firms specialise in customer contact, while Auxis's centre of gravity is finance, IT and automation work for the office of the CFO. That alignment is the main reason it fits Grant Thornton, whose audit, tax and advisory relationships run through the same finance leaders.
Client Base & Market Position
Auxis serves US mid-market and large companies, many of them in the finance function. The platform records its verticals as Manufacturing and Technology & SaaS, and its open roles show healthcare revenue cycle work as well.
Named clients: PepsiCo is both its origin and a client: its website case studies include work for PepsiCo's Latin American beverages shared services operation. Its case studies and testimonials also name clients including Subway, Equifax, Condé Nast, Atlantic Union Bank and Amerant Bank, and describe anonymised engagements such as accounts payable and receivable outsourcing for a public biotech company and analytics for a global hospitality and restaurant company.
Leadership reach: Its CEO, Raul Vega, has worked with over 200 clients across 30+ countries over a 30-year career, according to the firm's leadership page.
Market position: Auxis sits between two groups of competitors. In nearshore finance and accounting it competes with Latin American and US providers that run delivery centres in Costa Rica, Colombia and Mexico. In finance transformation and managed services it competes with the outsourcing arms of accounting and consulting firms. Being part of Grant Thornton gives it a route to the clients of a large advisory firm, and its stated mission is helping clients achieve peak performance through flexibility, innovation and optimization.
Recognition: In April 2026 Auxis was named a Leader and All Star Company on the 2026 IAOP Global 100, its 11 consecutive years on the list and its fourth consecutive year as an All Star Company. The ranking recorded perfect scores in categories including customer references. Rankings of this kind carry weight with procurement teams shortlisting outsourcing providers.
Client economics: The firm's pitch is that Latin American delivery in US time zones gives mid-sized companies access to transformation and outsourcing that were once the preserve of large enterprises. The expansion to more than 1,400 professionals and the opening of a second large Colombian centre show that this proposition has found demand, and the Grant Thornton ownership adds the reassurance of a large professional services parent for risk-averse finance buyers.
Delivery Infrastructure & Operations
Auxis delivers from Latin America to US clients in the same or similar time zones. Its main delivery hubs are in Heredia, Costa Rica and Barranquilla, Colombia, with supporting hubs in Bogotá and Medellín in Colombia and in Mexico City.
Costa Rica: Auxis helped pioneer the nearshore outsourcing model in Latin America when it launched its first capabilities centre in Costa Rica in 2010. Its timeline records that it later relocated and doubled the capacity of the Costa Rica centre, then moved it again and doubled its size. Current openings in Costa Rica include healthcare analysts, appeals specialists and a forward deployed engineer working with Claude, so the site handles both process work and AI engineering.
Colombia: Since debuting in Colombia in 2021, Auxis has expanded to 500 employees across Barranquilla, Bogotá and Medellín. It established a Colombia service delivery centre in Barranquilla, and in August 2026 opened a new Bogotá outsourcing centre, its second major capabilities centre in Colombia. The Bogotá centre employed more than 200 professionals at opening, and the company said it aims to grow it to more than 700 over the following year, which matches its July 2026 announcement that it was hiring over 500 bilingual professionals in Bogotá. Raul Vega described Bogotá as one of the deepest and fastest-growing bilingual talent markets in Latin America.
Hiring: The platform tracks 43 open jobs and rates hiring velocity as Aggressive. Most recent postings are in Bogotá, covering accounts payable, accounts receivable, staff accounting, service desk, cybersecurity and information security audit, along with interns recruited through Colombia's SENA training programme. A group product manager role for advisory in Bogotá shows that the centre is also taking on product and advisory work for the wider Grant Thornton platform.
Delivery logic: The shift of growth from Costa Rica to Colombia is a common pattern in nearshore services: Costa Rica offers a mature, highly bilingual workforce at higher cost, while Colombia offers larger cities and a deeper talent pool. Running both, with Mexico as a further option, gives Auxis capacity and pricing choices, and reduces dependence on a single labour market.
Ownership, Financials & Scale
Ownership: Auxis is a wholly owned subsidiary of Grant Thornton Advisors LLC. Grant Thornton Advisors LLC completed its transaction to join forces with Auxis in September 2025, and the Auxis website states that it is a subsidiary of Grant Thornton Advisors LLC. Jim Peko, CEO of Grant Thornton Advisors LLC, called the deal a milestone moment for the firm. Auxis sits within Grant Thornton's Advisory practice, whose Managing Partner for Advisory Services, Tom Puthiyamadam, comments on Auxis announcements.
Parent scale: At the time of the deal Grant Thornton Advisors described a platform of almost 13,000 professionals. By April 2026 its multinational platform included almost 25,000 professionals across aligned firms. Auxis, with more than 1,400 professionals, adds a nearshore delivery base to an organisation built mainly on audit, tax and advisory partners.
Scale: Grant Thornton put Auxis at more than 1,400 professionals across Costa Rica, Colombia and the US in September 2025, and earlier records put the workforce at 1,400. Colombia alone accounted for 500 employees by mid-2026, with the Bogotá centre targeting more than 700 people.
Implications: The acquisition changes Auxis's position in three ways. It gives the business a parent with a large client base for cross-selling; it ties its brand to Grant Thornton, which now announces its awards; and it places outsourcing inside a professional services firm where independence rules can limit which services may be sold to audit clients. For buyers, the parent's balance sheet and reputation reduce provider risk, while the integration means Auxis's strategy is now set within a larger firm's priorities.
People, Leadership & Culture
Leadership: Raul Vega is President and CEO of Auxis and, since the Grant Thornton deal, a Partner in Grant Thornton's Advisory practice. Throughout his 30-year career he has worked with over 200 clients across 30+ countries. His dual role links Auxis's operations directly to Grant Thornton's advisory partnership.
The founders remain involved. Alvaro Prieto is Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director, Technology Services, and the leadership page lists Bill Pruitt as Co-Founder and Board Member. Other senior leaders include Bill Woodford, Senior Managing Director of Digital Transformation; Eduardo Diquez, Managing Director of Intelligent Automation; Jose Alvarez, Managing Director of Infrastructure Technology and Cloud; Dan Day, Senior Managing Director; Keith Sayewitz, Managing Director; and Lizzie Arroyo, Vice President of HR and Administration.
The structure, with managing directors for automation, infrastructure and cloud and digital transformation, reflects a firm that sells technology change alongside process operations.
Culture and employer brand: Auxis's leaders frame Colombia as a place for career growth. Lizzie Arroyo described Colombia as an important part of the firm's growth story when it expanded in Bogotá, and the hiring release presented the Bogotá centre as a place to develop expertise in emerging technologies and work with global teams. Its mission statement, unchanged since founding, is to help clients achieve peak performance through flexibility, innovation and optimization.
Talent pipeline: Recruitment of interns for desktop support through SENA, Colombia's national training service, and of HR analyst interns in Bogotá shows an entry-level pipeline that feeds its larger centres. Bilingual hiring at scale, more than 500 professionals in Bogotá, depends on that pipeline and on retaining staff in a competitive market for English-speaking finance and IT talent.
Social impact: In the 2026 IAOP Global 100 ranking Auxis recorded perfect scores in categories including programs for social impact, an area that weighs with buyers who assess providers on employee and community practices.
Technology & Innovation
Technology is a central part of Auxis's offer rather than a support function.
Intelligent automation: Auxis runs a dedicated intelligent automation practice, built around UiPath. In 2025 it earned UiPath's Agentic Automation Fast Track Partner designation, and in March 2026 Grant Thornton announced that Auxis had earned UiPath Diamond Partner status. UiPath reserves Diamond status for a select group of partners with a highly developed AI and automation practice, strong sales performance and the ability to deliver end-to-end automation at scale. Auxis said it is among a select group of AI and automation providers in the US to earn all three of UiPath's most prestigious distinctions. It was also named UiPath Foundational Partner of the Year for the Americas.
Agentic AI: The Agentic Automation Fast Track designation places Auxis among the early adopters of AI agents in finance and business operations. Its September 2026 posting for a forward deployed engineer working with Claude in Costa Rica shows it building engineering capacity around large language models, not only around RPA.
Cloud and security: Its technology services include IT infrastructure and cloud management, led by a managing director for infrastructure technology and cloud, and cybersecurity operations in Bogotá. Its website lists Microsoft Azure and AWS among its technology partners.
Operate to transform: The combination of operations and automation is the core of its pitch. Bill Woodford, its Senior Managing Director of Digital Transformation, said Diamond status reflects the ability to solve business problems by reimagining how work is designed, executed and scaled. In an outsourcing contract that model reduces the labour content of a process over time. That benefits clients, but it also means Auxis must keep winning new scope to grow its headcount-based revenue.
Recognition: Auxis has appeared repeatedly on the IAOP Global Outsourcing 100, and its 2026 ranking recorded near-perfect scores for programs for innovation.
Strategic Assessment
Strengths
- Finance and accounting focus: Recognised as a top FAO company by ISG and Everest Group in 2025, with nearshore delivery for the office of the CFO.
- Strong parent: A wholly owned subsidiary of Grant Thornton Advisors LLC since September 2025, with access to its advisory relationships.
- Automation depth: UiPath Diamond Partner status in March 2026 and the Agentic Automation Fast Track designation in 2025.
- Nearshore footprint: Hubs in Heredia, Barranquilla, Bogotá, Medellín and Mexico City, serving US clients in similar time zones.
Risks and Vulnerabilities
- Integration: Its strategy, brand and sales now sit inside a much larger professional services firm.
- Audit independence: Ownership by an accounting firm can restrict sales of outsourcing to that firm's audit clients.
- Rapid scaling: Growing the Bogotá centre from more than 200 to a target of more than 700 people in a year puts pressure on hiring, training and quality.
- Automation trade-off: Automating the processes it runs reduces labour per contract, so growth depends on winning new scope.
Opportunities
- Cross-selling: Grant Thornton's platform of almost 25,000 professionals gives Auxis a channel for outsourcing and automation work.
- Agentic AI: Its UiPath status and work with Claude position it for AI agent projects in finance and IT operations.
- Colombia scale: A Colombian workforce of 500 and a second major centre give it capacity for larger contracts.
