In which areas does your company face the most significant challenges?

Financial health & performance

• Profitability analysis: Gain clear visibility into your company’s overall profitability.
• Liquidity & solvency analysis: Evaluate your ability to meet both short- and long-term obligations.
• Trend & variance analysis: Track performance patterns over time and compare actual results to budgets.
• KPI & ratio analysis: Focus on the key metrics that drive success.

Cash flow management

• Cash flow forecasting: Stay ahead of liquidity needs with accurate predictions.
• Working capital management: Optimize operations for financial stability.
• Cash conversion optimization: Eliminate bottlenecks and improve cash flow.
• Credit risk management: Minimize exposure to bad debt and safeguard liquidity.

Profitability enhancement

• Cost control: Reduce costs while maintaining quality.
• Operational efficiency: Streamline processes to eliminate waste.
• Margin analysis: Identify opportunities to improve pricing and refine your product or service mix.
• Customer profitability: Determine which customer relationships add the most value.

Financial planning

• Annual budgeting: Create robust financial roadmaps aligned with your goals.
• Rolling forecasts: Adapt to changing conditions with continuously updated projections.
• Scenario planning: Prepare for a range of business outcomes.
• Target setting: Define performance-driven goals.

Growth & investment

• Growth acceleration: Identify and capitalize on growth opportunities.
• Resource allocation: Deploy resources effectively for maximum impact.
• Investment analysis: Evaluate and prioritize strategic investments.
• Portfolio optimization: Balance investments for growth and stability.

Capital structure & risk management

• Funding analysis: Explore funding options to support your strategy.
• Capital structure optimization: Define the ideal mix of debt and equity.
• Risk mitigation: Address interest and exchange rate risks.
• Sensitivity analysis: Test the impact of key variables on performance.

Decision support

• Business case analysis: Build strong cases for strategic initiatives.
• NPV & IRR analysis: Evaluate investments using proven financial metrics.
• What-if analysis: Assess outcomes of different decisions.
• Risk-return analysis: Balance opportunities with risks for informed decision-making.

Four-level financial management framework

We use the following four-level financial management framework to articulate a structured evolution from foundational financial operations to sophisticated strategic involvement. It allows you to identify your current maturity level and understand our value proposition at each stage, ultimately helping you to leverage our services to accelerate your growth, improve your efficiency, and boost your profitability.

Level 1: Foundational accounting, tax & compliance

• This foundational level encompasses all mandatory financial activities, including bookkeeping, statutory reporting, tax filings, and regulatory compliance. These functions, while essential to operational stability, provide limited contribution to strategic decision-making. Businesses should manage these responsibilities efficiently, either through an internal finance team led by an experienced accountant or through outsourcing to a trusted third-party provider.

Level 2: Financial reporting & business analysis

• This level focuses on developing a clear understanding of historical performance and the current state of financial health. By leveraging advanced profitability assessments, variance analysis, KPI tracking, and financial health metrics, businesses can derive actionable insights that form the basis for informed decision-making. Financial reporting & business analysis serves as the backbone of evaluating past business performance and identifying opportunities for improvement.

Level 3: Integrated budgeting & dynamic forecasting

• The focus at this level is on proactive financial planning that aligns operational execution with strategic financial objectives. Budgeting & forecasting includes the development of detailed budgets, rolling forecasts, and sophisticated scenario planning. This level emphasizes a dynamic, forward-looking approach that enables organizations to stay agile, anticipate changes, and optimize their trajectory toward long-term business objectives.

Level 4: Strategic financial leadership & advisory

• At the highest level, the emphasis is on providing strategic financial leadership to steer the business toward sustainable success. As trusted advisors, we partner with executives to deliver strategic insights and financial guidance that shape key business decisions. Services at this level include advanced business case development, capital allocation optimization, investment analysis, and strategic scenario planning. The goal is to ensure that financial strategy is fully aligned with business ambitions to drive sustainable growth and maximize long-term shareholder value.

We deliver scalable financial management with fractional controllers, fractional CFOs, and FP&A-as-a-service.

Fractional controller

Our fractional controllers support you part-time and focus on financial reporting, business analysis, integrated budgeting, and dynamic forecasting. They work closely together with your internal finance & accounting team or with your external accountant.

Fractional CFO

Our fractional CFOs support you part-time and focus on financial reporting, business analysis, integrated budgeting, dynamic forecasting, strategic financial leadership, and advisory. They are either supported by one of our fractional controllers or by our FP&A-as-a-service team.

FP&A-as-a-service

Our FP&A-as-a-service team focuses on financial reporting, business analysis, integrated budgeting, dynamic forecasting, building our own AI & analytics capabilities, and upskilling your finance team.