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Financial Leadership
Making the transition from the traditional accounting/book-keeping to a forward-looking/value-added finance organization is difficult and requires solid financial leadership to anticipate needs and inspire change
We provide Fractional CFO services and Finance team capability assessments to help you build a best-in-class Finance team
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Value-added Finance
Give your business the insights it needs through world-class FP&A (Financial Planning & Analysis) capabilities
Learn how MNCs exceed quarterly targets with Forecasting, Budgeting, Reporting and Scenario planning - integrated with business reviews and performance management
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Finance Learning & Development
Already have a dream team in place?
Increase engagement, retention and effectiveness with training programs that aim to take your finance talent to the next level - build business acumen, learn soft & hard skills, discover MVP-level tips & tricks on the most commonly used financial tools such as MS Excel/Tableau/Power BI and planning platforms such as Anaplan
Financial Leadership
Finance is more than a cost-centre
The very best Finance Organizations are VALUE-CREATORS and VALUE-PROTECTORS, and do not just focus on transactions, accounting and compliance
The best Finance Professionals are Business Partners with the Founders, Board, C-suite management, Sales / Marketing / Compliance / IT / HR / etc… and have a broad understanding of the business and how activities of each division & department translate to financial success of the Company
“A leader knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.”
— John C. Maxwell
In the past 15 years, I’ve witnessed multiple Finance Transformation efforts fail due to poor leadership
Whether it was implementing a new accounting system, financial planning tool, or the re-organization of entire finance teams - Several factors stood out that are red-flags of poor finance leadership:
Top-down directives from CxOs, without consideration of middle manager & lowest-level staff inputs
HQ has a smart idea of rolling out a new sexy initiative, but fails to consider the complexity it brings to Regions, Sub-regions and Affiliates
Improper ROI analysis done on the new finance initiative, leading to astronomical implementation costs, excessive recurring per-user access costs and annually-increasing system/platform maintenance costs - finally resulting in the need to “scrap” the entire project
Poor management buy-in (usually from non-finance business partners / divisions) at the start of the finance implementation project, resulting in eventual under-utilization of platforms / reports / services - again leading to discontinuation and waste of resources (Time & Energy invested)
Poorly led use-case exploration and implementation of finance projects that result in massive re-work / contract variation orders from IT / Finance system vendors to roll-back the implementation or do last-minute add-ons
Creative Senior Finance Leadership trying to re-organize entire finance teams due to cost-minimization KPIs or to streamline finance operations, only for it to backfire due to miscalculated work-load allocations and overly-zealous Finance FTE reductions
Poor Leadership and communication (with respect to Change management) by the chain of command which results in the lower level staff not understanding the “WHYs” behind the change and end up losing faith in Finance Leadership
Avoid such leadership pitfalls by engaging someone who has been through similar implementations, has proven project-management experience and the inspirational leadership needed to manage the change efforts
Value-added Finance
Bespoke Dashboards that are both insightful & intuitive
Whether you have businesses or revenue streams across the globe, or focused on a single country, our dashboards are tailored to the look & feel that best suits you!
Understand what accelerates your performance and what slows you down
One glance is all you need to target outperformers for praise and single out underperformers for quick & decisive corrective action
View performance from any angle you want to get to the truth of the matter
Want to slice & dice your revenue streams by region, country, product, channel, or any other detailed category? Nitro Dashboards give you the ultimate flexibility of design and user-friendliness