The finance function needs to be aligned to the business strategy, and provide financial analysis and insight to support corporate decision making, while also meeting legal and regulatory requirements as a given. With a global network of professionals, Financial Management teams help CFOs and senior finance executives make their finance function more efficient, effective and aligned to the overarching business strategy so that the organisation can realise and sustain value over the long term. We advise clients on how to use business intelligence and analytics to access the right information at the right time in order to make more effective business decisions. We also advise clients on how to use technology and process improvement methodologies to transform their finance function, close their books faster, define their finance operating models and make finance operations more efficient.
Finance transformation
Finance transformation is aimed at creating a finance function that is able to influence business leaders to make better business decisions. It will help to clarify the role of finance in driving strategic business imperatives, and will focus the finance function on delivering the right information to the right business leaders at the right time.
Many finance functions are still struggling to produce real business information that helps business leaders make the right business decisions.
"Up to 50 percent of managers place no confidence in the numbers presented to them."
Business Intelligence Research, Cambridge University, 2009
We can help to make the finance function more effective in driving business value and more efficient in the way that it currently operates within the organisation.
Our approach, methodology and team are "field tested". They have been repeatedly proven by working alongside our clients on their critical finance restructuring and redesign projects. Our finance transformation approach provides a framework for designing, building and sustaining a world class finance organisation.
Enterprise performance management
The unpredictability of today's markets require resilience and agility to navigate and thrive in. Enterprise Performance Management provides chief financial officer (CFO)s with the tools to support informed decision making across an enterprise, This occurs through the development of a common performance management framework, enabled through appropriate technology investment and the design of one cohesive data model.
We believe that in order to make Enterprise Performance Management efficient and effective in a business, companies must focus on three key areas:
- Creating sustainable planning, budgeting and forecasting models
- Robust performance reporting, to give the enterprise insight and forward-looking information
- And dimensional profitability and costing capabilities, which help to provide deep- rooted analytics on the underlying drivers of value of the business.