What do you want from your Finance Director & Ops Consultant…?
Successful businesses often grow quickly. There are commonly leaps in evolution which inevitably not only create a trail of organisational chaos but leave best intended systems and processes somewhat redundant and unscalable. There is a tendency to be overly focused on sales and businesses often over-look or rather turn a blind eye to the weaknesses that lurk in the back-end infrastructure of their company operation. The impact of such weaknesses cause unnecessary stress, inefficiency and unfortunately will inevitably result in the loss of revenue. At this stage, businesses frequently do not have capacity to tackle the problems on their own and rely on financial and operational professionals to step in to identify the issues and help find sustainable solutions.
When shaping our service offering, we thought considerably on the types of difficulties businesses face as the grow and change, and how we can aid this process most effectively. There are many credible consultants out there who can work alongside business owners and their teams to analyze the pitfalls in processes, make sound judgements and offer very appropriate advice. The problem with this is that after being presented with the scope of what lies beneath and what needs to be done, the business is faced with the challenge of implementing the strategy using there own limited capacity or trying to pass the plan on to a third party who doesn’t necessary understand the background to the brief and the ins and out of the company.
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We feel to offer a service in which the value is really felt, it is hugely effective to be able to support the client every step of the way during this process. After all, change is unnerving and it is unlikely businesses can facilitate this alone. Our complete approach to our consultancy follows through with the implementation of the recommendation and thorough project management from start to finish. Our services start at identifying areas of operational improvement, recommending a suitable solution, then project managing the necessary changes, and continuing to maintain the systems and processes put in place to ensure they are happily bedded into company culture and producing the desired outcome.
This approach has been taken with many clients who have encountered issues with their financial management, whether it be not being able to get the reports that they want or that they are using up too much resource on doing lengthy manual procedures. Our focus has always been on getting the most suitable and reliable solution in place with the minimum disruption to workflow. This can often be as streamlined as switching accounting software and adding new expense procedures. Its incredible how these seemingly small steps can have such an impact on productivity and ultimately on profitability. The key here is that we have not only worked with the business to decide on the most appropriate solution, we have designed the implementation plan around them, actioned it and then been able to offer the ongoing financial director support to ensure the continued function whilst maintaining a close relationship & communication throughout the entire process.
We know growing a business can be tough and day to day operational management can be un-motivating. We hope to create solutions and support that will continue to help propel our clients into an easier, more efficient and sustainable way of operating which will enable them to focus on the parts of the business they most enjoy!