Helping You Drive Business Performance
Financial Planning & Modeling
Well prepared financial projections are a critical part of your business plan and essential for funding purposes. Building these projections requires time and knowledge and alignment with your business strategy as well as many iterations.
We can help you with:
- Preparation of long range financial projections aligned with company strategy including P&L, Balance Sheet & Cashflow
- Scenario modelling based on alternative assumptions
- Analysis of plans
Budgets & Forecasts
Having annual budgets in place against which to compare actual performance is a necessary part of day to day financial management. Re-forecasting on at least a quarterly basis is also an advisable practice in order to ensure you know the direction you are heading and to take corrective action where needed.
- Preparation of Annual budgets: P&L, Balance Sheet, Cashflow,
- Budget and profitability modelling with sensitivity analysis
- Preparation of updated forecasts based on latest business assumptions and market situation
- Advice on corrective actions if needed
Governance & Reporting
In order to manage the business you need reliable management data, easy to understand reports, tailored for your requirements, and mechanisms to present and review these. Additionally, liaising with external stakeholders such as auditors and tax advisors takes time and expertise. We can handle this for you.
- Preparation of reporting packs for Board, Management, Investors and other Stakeholders
- Presentation and explanation of performance to Management
- Establishing and maintaining corporate governance processes (Board meetings, management performance reviews etc.)
- Liaising with external auditors and tax advisors
Financial Analysis
To fully understand the dynamics of your business you need to go beyond the basic financial data. Understanding where your profitability comes from, the customer and product dimension and areas for improvement will all help drive your business performance. Let us help you with gaining this insight:
- Revenue and profitability analysis by business , product, customer, project as relevant
- Profitability improvement analysis: identification of focus areas to improve profitability
- Trend analysis
- Ad-hoc and case specific analysis
Cashflow Management
Cashflow is the bloodline of any business and needs to be well managed for business survival, growth and success. To understand your funding requirements you need a good handle on cashflow.
- Cashflow forecasts
- End to end review of cashflow cycle for areas of improvement
- Working Capital optimisation: customer invoicing procedures, timing, terms of payment, cash collection methodologies etc
Cost Management
Understanding your cost base, its drivers and areas for improvement are all necessary to optimise your business performance.
- Cost reporting and expense analysis
- Operating Cost analysis
- Identification of cost drivers, implementation of cost optimisation measures
Finance Function Management
Getting the best out of your existing finance resource(s) whether internal or external takes time and knowledge. As your business grows you will also need help with scaling this team. Let us take care of this for you
- Managing day to day finance team or outsourced partners
- Coaching and developing team members
- Scaling of finance team for growth
- On boarding of staff (including full time CFO if needed)
Commercial Management support
Every potential sales case and every contract you sign has financial consequences and you need clear visibility of the impacts. Ensure you have this understanding upfront and can manage and plan for both the profit and cashflow consequences
- Sales case/contract support, identification of P&L and Cashflow impacts
- Pricing analysis and modelling
- Review of customer contract terms and conditions
Special Projects
From time to time you simply need additional support with one-off topics, be it internal controls reviews, due diligence, specific analysis or project evaluation.
We will be happy to discuss your needs and identify if we can help you in any way.
