For Finance Functions:
Improve your financial management
If your finance function is underpowered or mis-firing, it is likely to be risky, frustrating and stressful for everyone involved.
Leveraging my extensive experience of leading and working with finance functions in start-ups, growing businesses, as well as much larger organisations, I can
assess the strengths and weaknesses in your finance function
work with you to plan how it can be built to be stronger and more effective
assist with implementation and finding the resources that you need to improve.
3 steps to improving your Finance Function
Finance Function Health-check
I review and report on how well your finance function is performing across 6 key dimensions:People & culture
Processes
IT tools & systems
Information
Funding
Strategy
Performance transformation
Having assessed your finance function’s capability, I work with you to create and implement a plan to transform its performance in a sustainable manner. We will agree priorities, timing and budget for the changes to ensure that your finance function gets to the place that it needs to be to support the future success of your business or organisation.Once the plan is agreed, I can partner with you to implement agreed aspects of the change programme including:
Recruitment & cultural outlook
Process improvement
IT system selection
Information redesign
Fund-raising
Business planning and strategy development.
Trouble-shooting
Despite the best laid plans, situations can occur where financial issues arise which need urgent attention. If this happens having access to a trusted adviser who can apply their experience to analyse the situation and recommend possible solutions can be invaluable.
I can be available to support in this way either by working on one-off projects or on a long-term retained basis.