Introduction to
Finance

The finance strategy is about translating the corporate strategy into specific objectives and requirements for finance and the strategic choices to be made. We use Roger Martin’s Playing to Win framework to ensure a thorough and comprehensive collaborative process in framing the finance strategy.

The finance operating model outlines how the finance function operates efficiently to fulfil the finance strategy and deliver timely and accurate financial information and insights to support decision-making in the organisation. This model focuses on people, organisation design, processes, technology, culture and performance management.

The finance operations team is the engine that drives the flow of financial information in your organisation, both in daily operations and during times of transformation. Optimising finance operations will enable your finance organisation to achieve more efficient and effective processes and provide the financial information and insights needed to make informed business decisions throughout the entire organisation.

We support companies in designing, executing and managing performance-enhancing finance and business partner training programmes. Our approach is based on three design criteria: Co-creating content, implementing blended learning and ensuring high engagement.

Finance business partners are finance professionals who work closely with a particular business unit, creating active partnerships with both operations and management to create impact for the business. Their role is to be trusted advisors. We help organisations build and train this muscle.

Investment opportunities exist everywhere. Having a consistent method of evaluating which opportunities to pursue when is critical to decision-making. We develop reliable and robust business cases that consider various scenarios and shed light on risks, allowing you to explore the financial impact of strategic decisions and helping you make the right decisions.

We enable and translate the strategy into specific focus areas that require balancing to ensure the optimal realisation of identified benefits and redefine how your business operates to achieve better outcomes that can adapt to changing market conditions. We examine and potentially redesign key components of the operating model, such as business processes, technology systems, organisational structure, culture and performance measurement, to align with your company’s strategic objectives.

Process diagnostics is an approach to gain a better understanding of your processes and make targeted improvements to enhance efficiency, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction. We identify inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement in a business process by defining and mapping the process, gathering and analysing data, identifying improvements and prioritising those improvements for implementation.

Process design involves creating or redesigning processes to link them to strategic objectives, meet specific requirements and achieve the desired outcome. We support companies in defining the scope of the process, mapping the process flow, gathering requirements, identifying improvement opportunities, designing the new process and validating the design for implementation.

Process implementation starts with defining and aligning on the specific goal or outcome that the process intends to achieve. We support companies in redesigning business processes end to end to align with the strategic objectives by identifying improvements and eliminating waste, mapping the target process flow and putting the new process into action, ensuring documentation, training, monitoring performance and continuous improvements.

The goal of process governance is to ensure that your business processes are aligned with the organisation’s strategic objectives, meet regulatory requirements and are efficient and effective.

This involves creating a framework for organising and defining business processes in the organisation and assigning responsibility and mandates for the design, implementation and ongoing management and evaluation of specific business processes for designated individuals to ensure that processes meet the desired outcome.

Programme management is important to manage large-scale transformations with multiple interdependent projects. We help you steer your organisation’s overall change ambition towards creating maximum impact and alignment with your overall company strategy.

Complex transformations are challenging. We aspire to help your organisation to think end to end when defining the change aspiration. We help you gain a clear understanding of current challenges and ambitions and design the right transformation that empowers the creation of the envisioned impact.

We ensure a successful link between your corporate strategy and operations through a systematic approach that involves identifying must-win battles, defining desired behaviour, setting key performance indicators and developing a governance structure that drives business performance.

We support our clients in implementing a performance management framework that fits their organisation and strategic ambitions. The framework includes data, systems, KPIs and reporting tools as well as performance management governance that facilitates the right conversations.

Drive greater profitability by aligning your commercial, operational and financial activities, and create a meaningful forecasting and target-setting model for the entire organisation with dynamic planning. From corporate strategy to daily production planning, dynamic planning can help you ensure effective planning processes and better decision-making.