Financial decisions and analysis

Financial decisions and analysis

The Financial Decisions and Analysis (FD&A) team delivers additional insight for decision making. We use our people's range of industry experiences with a commercial mindset and deep technical skills to produce rapid, pragmatic and clear outcomes for our clients. Services include:

Supporting the CFO office - across its critical, value-adding activities for example:

• providing penetrative, timely and easy to use management and board reporting;
• improving cash performance through cash and working capital management and
• aligning forecasts to the strategic plan by robust and accountable budgeting, planning and forecasting

Deal Modelling - building confidence for all parties to the transaction:

• improving clarity and transparency for buy-side investors and finance providers
• adding resilient credibility to the business growth story for sellers
• supporting creditor and bank negotiations with scenario and sensitivity analysis and returns evaluation
• reviewing deal model structure and integrity to increase certainty

Decision Support – enabling focused, competitive, judgements based on salient quantitative and qualitative data

• improved analytics for investment appraisal
• guiding profitable pricing decisions based on likely customer and competitor behaviour, impact on costs to serve, margins and volume
• increasing customer and product profitability by improving visibility of performance
• evaluation of strategic options through a robust model for weighing evidence