In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, CFOs are no longer mere stewards of financial resources. They are strategic partners, driving growth, mitigating risk, and shaping the future of their organisations.

To meet these demands, finance departments must undergo a digital transformation. By leveraging the latest technologies and adopting innovative practices, finance can become a strategic asset, aligning closely with business objectives and fostering sustainable growth.

Our comprehensive suite of finance transformation services is designed to help you navigate this changing environment, empowering your finance function to become more efficient, agile, and future-proof. From on-demand CFO expertise to cutting-edge automation, we help your organsation achieve financial excellence.

How we help

CFO-as-a-Service

Professional Financial Leadership at Your Fingertips

Our CFO-as-a-Service solution offers businesses access to seasoned CFO professionals on a flexible, on-demand basis, without the long-term commitment of a full-time hire. This service is tailored to meet the specific financial needs of each business, whether it’s strategic financial planning, managing financial risks, or operational financial oversight.

Our CFO services provide:

  • Strategic Financial Guidance: Helping you develop long-term financial strategies that align with business goals.
  • Operational Oversight: Managing day-to-day financial operations, ensuring accuracy and efficiency.
  • Risk Management: Identifying financial risks and implementing mitigation strategies to protect the business.
  • Financial Reporting & Compliance: Ensuring all financial reports meet regulatory requirements and are timely and accurate.
  • Capital raising: Strategic guidance and investors engagement in raising capital.
Operating Model

Streamlining Financial Operations for Success

Our Finance Organisational and Operating Model service focuses on optimising the structure of your finance team to ensure maximum efficiency and scalability. This service includes detailed assessments of current processes, readiness evaluations, and policy reviews to ensure your financial operations are robust, compliant, and ready for growth.

Key services include:

  • Finance Team Structuring: Creating a scalable organisational structure that aligns with business growth and goals.
  • Process Readiness Assessment: Evaluating current financial processes and readiness for scaling.
  • Finance SoPs Development: Creating clear, standardised operating procedures for all finance processes.
  • Reconciliation Maturity Assessments: Ensuring reconciliations are accurate, streamlined, and improve overall financial accuracy.
Technical Accounting

Expert Guidance on Complex Accounting Matters

The Technical Accounting service assists businesses in navigating complex accounting standards and practices. We provide specialised expertise in setting up accounting policies, redesigning the chart of accounts, and ensuring compliance with global standards like IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards and US GAAP).

Key focus areas include:

  • Accounting Policy Setup: Establishing clear accounting policies aligned with industry standards.
  • Chart of Accounts Redesign: Reconfiguring your accounts to provide clarity, efficiency, and compliance.
  • IFRS Memo Development: Creating detailed, complex IFRS memos for accurate global reporting.
  • Financial Statements Review & Diagnostics: Conducting thorough reviews of financial statements to ensure accuracy and compliance.
Finance Operations

Optimising Core Financial Processes

The Finance Operations service is designed to improve your company’s core financial processes, from Order-to-Cash (O2C) to Source-to-Pay (S2P), ensuring streamlined payment workflows, optimised cash flow, and timely financial closing processes. These enhancements support the foundation for strong financial reporting and operational efficiency.

Key offerings include:

  • Order-to-Cash (O2C) Optimisation: Streamlining the order processing and revenue collection cycles to improve efficiency.
  • Source-to-Pay (S2P) Optimisation: Enhancing the procurement and payment process to reduce errors and speed up vendor payments.
  • Close Diagnostics: Identifying and resolving bottlenecks in the financial close process to ensure timely and accurate reporting.
Business Finance

Empowering Financial Business Partners

Our Business Finance service focuses on strengthening the collaboration between finance teams and other business units, enhancing the overall competency of finance as a business partner. We help businesses improve their financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes (PBF) to enable data-driven decision-making and better resource allocation.

Key services include:

  • Finance Business Partnering: Enabling finance teams to work closely with other departments to provide actionable financial insights.
  • Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting (PBF): Developing accurate, data-driven financial forecasts that align with business goals.
  • Finance Competency Development: Enhancing the skills of finance teams to become proactive partners in business strategy development.
Systems & Technology

Automation for Finance Excellence

Our Systems & Technology service offers cutting-edge advisory on automating various finance processes, ensuring that financial workflows are more efficient and less prone to human error. The service includes specialised advisory for automating key financial areas such as reconciliations, expense management, and financial reporting.

Key services include:

  • Reconciliation Automation: Automating the reconciliation process to ensure faster and error-free financial records.
  • Expense Automation: Streamlining the expense approval and tracking process to reduce administrative burden and improve accuracy.
  • Financial Statements Automation: Automating the generation of financial statements, ensuring timely and accurate reporting with minimal manual input.

Why Grant Thornton

  • Deep Industry Expertise
  • Customised Transformation Roadmap
  • Commitment to your Success
  • Deep Industry Expertise
    Deep Industry Expertise
    Our seasoned professionals combine extensive financial knowledge with a keen focus on the nuances of your industry.
  • Customised Transformation Roadmap
    Customised Transformation Roadmap
    We collaborate with you to develop a personalised plan aligned with your unique business goals, ensuring a smooth and successful transformation.
  • Commitment to your Success
    Commitment to your Success
    We partner with you every step of the way, providing continuous support and guidance to ensure you achieve your strategic objectives.