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An ever broader and more complex scope of action for Finance Departments

Finance Departments are expected not only to execute their operations in a controlled manner, but also to provide added value in terms of strategic management and business steering.

The Finance function also plays an important role in risk management, internal control and regulatory compliance.

It must seize the opportunities offered by digitization, RPA and AI to reduce complexity and contribute - through its own activities - to business transformation.

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Finance Transformation

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ORGANIZING AND MOBILIZING TEAMS

  • Opportunity studies / Business cases / Synergy assessments
  • Outsourcing (BPO) / Shared Service Centers
  • Target organization design and impact measurements
  • Redesigning the value proposition for internal customers
  • Optimizing working capital
  • Electronic invoicing / Dematerialization of workflows
  • Process design / re-engineering: Lean approaches, Fast close, RPA/IA, CSRD Reporting
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TRANSFORMING FINANCIAL PROCESSES

BUSINESS PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

  • Efficiency / cost reduction (SG&A)
  • Business management: financial modeling, dashboards, data analytics
  • Strategy / IS Finance master plans
  • Support in choosing solutions (ERP, Reporting, BI, etc.)
  • Management and support for Finance IS/digitization projects

FINANCIAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

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Our approach

Our work focuses on transforming the Finance function and, more generally, on optimizing the performance and financial structure of companies.

Well versed in the complex issues associated with investment decisions, steering and improving finance processes, our team has developed a resolutely systemic approach (processes, organization, tools, skills, corporate culture).

We are convinced that, over and above the technical and regal dimension, the Finance function's hallmark is its ability to implement pragmatic solutions, to work with the business lines and to disseminate the financial culture within the company.

Success stories

Carrying out an efficiency reengineering program

One of the world's leaders in heavy industry wanted to drastically reduce its organizational complexity and simplify its management principles, with the aim of improving efficiency.
Our mission is to define a target vision and review the structuring principles of performance management (from the COMEX dashboard to operational processes and indicators), working on the relevance of indicators, their overall articulation, management routines and overall process efficiency.

This approach contributes to an ambitious performance plan, worth several hundred million dollars over 3 years.
  • Ability to grasp the complexity of an organization forged by history and successive acquisitions
  • Expertise in organizational diagnostics and performance management

Securing the year-end closing

A player in the telecoms sector wishes to secure the preparation of its annual closing, and the anticipation of fallback scenarios in the event of the occurrence of undesirable events, by drawing up a business continuity plan (BCP) focused on the closing process.
  • Develop risk analysis with a focus on major risks and vulnerabilities and those with a higher probability of occurrence
  • Identify critical activities and their operational requirements (including critical resources)
  • Evaluate existing prevention plans
  • Develop responses and implementation methods/constraints and assess expected gains
  • Control of closing processes and risk management approach
  • Ability to think ahead about acceptable modus operandi in downgraded mode

Preparing an asset transfer operation

An international group is planning to transfer a software asset, held by an American company and valued at several million euros, to a French structure. The challenge lies not only in the strategic, financial and operational complexity of the operation, but also in the multiplicity of stakeholders in Europe (shareholders, customers, etc.).
iQo has been commissioned to define the project's economic and operational model, and to build the decision file:
  • Demonstrate the benefits of the project, from a strategic, economic and business point of view
  • Define possible options in terms of legal, financial and tax arrangements
  • Develop a virtuous business model for each of the entities concerned
  • Laying down the principles of effective governance
  • Knowledge of sector issues, players and context
  • Mastery of financial modeling techniques and legal and contractual engineering
  • Feedback on similar operations

Manage electronic invoicing compliance

As part of the reform of electronic invoicing, a transport operator must be able to issue invoices in electronic format to all its B2B customers.

This evolution requires us to adapt our customer paths to acquire the B2B customer data needed for invoicing.

  • Identify the impact of the new regulations on billing schemes for different use cases
  • Overhaul data repositories and customer paths for each distribution channel
  • Support cross-functional management
  • Knowledge of regulations
  • Perfect knowledge of Finance processes
  • Cross-functional vision of issues, especially marketing issues, in a project with a focus on accounting/taxation and IT.

Set up an internal control system

A leader in the food industry is looking for :

  • Secure the execution and performance of newly deployed processes, worldwide across all divisions and regions
  • Implement a system of internal control (first and second level) and continuous improvement
  • Identify issues and assess major risks on Demand to Supply, Brief to Adoption, Order to Cash, Source to Pay processes
  • Define and specify key controls: objectives, alert thresholds, data, sources, etc.
  • Design the operational control system in line with existing procedures and associated tools: governance, specific procedures, dashboards, etc.
  • Preparing for change and supporting operational integration (pilot phase, getting to grips with the system and ramping it up)
  • Knowledge of industrial processes
  • Expertise in risk management and internal control systems

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