CFO Services
Tired of lengthy and obsolete budgets?
We have an in-depth understanding of the challenges faced by finance departments. We partner with your finance team to foster improved collaboration with the rest of your organisation, to enhance performance and achieve greater forecasting accuracy. We’ll fine-tune processes, align behaviours, develop a common performance language and make your finance department more valuable to the rest of the business.
Is Finance always playing catch-up with the business?
All too often, finance teams spend their time bogged down in answering ad hoc requests from different parts of the business. But if an accounting team spends excessive time solving other people’s problems, there are inevitably issues which need to be resolved, usually resulting from a lack of training and an absence of proper standards in reporting and interpretation.
Business partnering: targeting for lasting results
We work alongside your finance team to deliver specialised training and guidance in best performance practice. Typically our work focuses on four key issues:
- Strategic planning and budgeting reengineering and modelling
- Design and development of performance contracts (complementing budgets)
- Rolling forecasting design and implementation
- Deployment of planning, budgeting, and performance management platforms
We begin by carrying out a diagnosis of your company. We’ll consult with you and your team and provide you with a confidential diagnostic report outlining our proposals for improvements, including decision-making processes and the information on which these are based – and the benefits you will gain. Your business will receive significant value from this exercise, regardless of whether you go on to engage Geojan or one of our partners.
If you decide to proceed, we’ll determine how improvements will need to be addressed and agree on their order of priority. Time spent at your business is dependent upon your specific needs and budget. Fees for our services are determined on a “no surprise” basis, so you’ll always know exactly what you’ll be paying in advance of any work being undertaken. We can also help prepare a supportive business case to facilitate approval for the project.
How can Geojan help you?
Our solutions typically include one or more of the following services. We are also happy to work with you on tailored assignments:
- Accountancy services and outsourcing
- Activity-based costing and management
- Budgeting process design/optimisation
- Business modelling
- Business partnering strategy and deployment
- Business valuation
- Dashboard and executive reporting
- Finance organisation design
- Finance service level agreement design
- Finance staff training and coaching
- Financial forecasting
- Financial management system optimisation
- Financial modelling and analysis
- Investment appraisals and prioritisation
- KPI development and deployment
- Financial organisation design and accountability mapping
- Performance management and performance contracts designs
- Pricing optimisation
- Real estate and property consulting and management outsourcing
- Shared services role expansion into business partnering
- Strategic planning
- Strategy mapping and Balanced Scorecard development and deployment
- Systems and data architecture design and deployment
- Tax and audit services