Improving information

Providing the right financial and non-financial information to the right people enables good decision making. It is important to provide a small number of KEY performance indicators, perhaps as a 'scorecard', so that managers can ask the right questions and monitor performance against objectives. Good presentation and easy accessibility enhances the information.

Service: Smart reporting.

Providing information at the right time is also important and in today's world that time is NOW! Reporting quickly not only assists managers to run the business better and impresses the stock market, it also increases the finance team's productivity by freeing them up to do other things for the organisation.

Service: Fast close.

Enabling business agility

Businesses need agility to be able to respond quickly to changing circumstances. Unfortunately, annual planning and budgeting processes in most organisations inhibit business agility - they are not frequent enough, are slow, time consuming and political. Rolling planning and forecasting enables organisations to respond quickly to changing circumstances in a coordinated manner, takes less time and focuses on key issues.

Service: Rolling planning & forecasting.

However, going from traditional annual planning and budgeting to rolling planning and forecasting is a big change and many organisations prefer a stepped approach. One step is to streamline the annual planning & budgeting process.

Service: Streamlined planning & budgeting

Reducing costs

Providing you with expertise in best practice shared services we can improve the quality and reduce the costs of transaction processing.

Service: Shared services

Whether in shared services or decentralised, no organisation wants to spend more than is necessary on transaction processing or other basic processes. And outsourcing inefficient processes just hands easy money to the outside provider.

Service: Streamlined processes

We can help you to effectively integrate finance functions, processes and systems so you derive full merger synergies.

Service: Post-merger integration

Restructuring Finance

It is worthwhile stepping back from time to time to consider what the organisation needs from finance and how finance can best deliver. For example, what priorities are there in skills, processes and systems to enable finance to pro-actively contribute to business strategy and commercial performance, ensure adequate compliance and implement effective and efficient processes?

Service: Finance efficiency and effectiveness review

Mentoring

Being a CFO is a difficult and, at times, lonely job which is why having a mentor is so valuable. A confidential, independent and expert opinion can improve personal effectiveness significantly.

Service: Mentoring