Financial consulting: Your financial needs at the centre of your business for efficiency and result

An organisation’s performance can be improved, but it’s hard to know where to focus efforts without a clear understanding of the current situation. Before fulfilling your financial needs, you need to know where you’re performing and where there are gaps that leave you behind the market leaders. That’s where financial benchmarking comes into play.

The expectations that organisations have of their financial functions have undergone a significant shift in recent years. While the traditional financial role, acting as the “scorekeeper” and maintaining an accurate system of record continues, the introduction of advanced technologies means there is increased potential in the capability of finance functions. As such, financial departments are expected to do more than they used to do. This often includes providing deep financial insights and strategic thinking, partnering with the business to drive performance, as well as delivering more sophisticated reporting to harness the power of data.

Businesses across the world are facing a period of economic uncertainty, which is challenging on all fronts. Volatility in the markets, rapid changes in technology, savvy customers, and tighter margins all add up to an atmosphere where performance can be hindered.

In this situation your business needs to be making financial, strategic and operational decisions based on accurate data, and be agile enough to respond to the pace of change. Finance performance management can help you create a strategy to outpace your competitors.

Whether you are in the need of a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) or are just thinking about shared services, there are key benefits to be achieved.

Reduce costs while having greater transparency and control over processes. Monitor data more effectively and enforce company-wide standards enforced more easily to get better business insight. We’ll help you to design, build and deliver a financial shared service centre that makes this reality possible.

How you set up your Financial needs, in particular your structure, your use of shared services/outsourcing, the skills of your retained function and the technology and processes your teams use, is integral to the success of your business. It dictates how your financial needs delivers value, and if it’s not fit for purpose in an age of rapidly evolving technology and shifting consumer behaviour then opportunities for growth will be missed.

People and organisations are facing change. You need an adviser that understands this change and provides certainty. One that can show your organisation what’s possible. One that reshapes your strategy and defines the skills and technology required to deliver the transformation you need. Whether refining or reinventing what you do, we’ll help you see beyond change, to opportunity.