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The modern CFO role is complex. There are higher expectations on compliance and demands for richer and faster reporting. Your strategy remit has expanded to cover people, technology, and ESG.

We bring insight, clarity, and experienced bandwidth to finance teams which ensure day-to-day objectives are delivered. Our team also supports finance leaders to address strategic goals, from delivering digital transformation programmes through to attracting and retaining talent in an evolving workforce.

Change of ownership or new investment

Rapid growth

Regulatory change

Digital change

Shift in strategic direction

New markets or new competitors

Attracting or retaining talent

The CFO Room

A half-day workshop to set you up for long-term success.

Technology and digital services

Define and deliver your digital strategy with us.

Why Grant Thornton

Our CFO solutions team helps organisations of all sizes and stages of growth and maturity – working with your finance function to deliver the outcomes needed for your business.

Whether you're growing rapidly or undertaking a specific business event, we can help. If you’re entering new contracts; acquiring, integrating, or restructuring; planning for an IPO; your management accounts or annual report need more attention; or you're having an unexpected technical issue raised by statutory auditors, get in touch with us.

Finance placements

Expert interim support placed into your finance team – lending a hand to ease your temporary headaches.

Finance consulting

Diagnostic, design, and implementation support – finding and removing the root cause of your headaches.

Financial reporting advisory

Specialist support – addressing your technical accounting and reporting headaches.

Business process outsourcing

Effective and efficient provision of services on an outsource basis – taking the headaches off your hands.

Finance learning and development

Attracting, retaining, and developing an inclusive finance workforce with the right skills for the future.

Tax advisory

Understanding how the evolving tax landscape impacts you and your business.

Helping a PE-backed finance team get back to BAU

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The Challenge

Following a number of bolt-on acquisitions to a portfolio company within UK hospitality, a private equity (PE) house identified the need for support in managing a number of priorities requiring urgent attention.

The Solution

We mobilised a coordinated team of individuals on a placement basis to work alongside the existing finance function. We matched the technical and soft skills required to execute a tactical integration project of this nature.

The Result

We successfully accelerate the remediation project timeline by six months and helped the business get back to business as usual (BAU).

Statutory-audit support for digital assets trader

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The challenge

With one month to go until their year-end, the £420 million-turnover business urgently needed support to complete their previous year's statutory audit.

The solution

A team of six rapidly scoped the core issues to generate quality reconciliations needed for the imminent audit.

The result

The improved reconciliation procedures reduced the month-end process from 20 days to six days.

Updating financial reporting for growing renewable energy...

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The challenge

Acquired by an investment bank, the client was facing their first UK statutory audit, and needed to update their financial reporting to meet the new owner's specifications.

The solution

Planning centred on understanding the client’s priorities, and knowledge and resource gaps. Delivery was defined by monthly goals for incrementally improving management accounts.

The result

A robust and repeatable balance sheet reporting process impressed the investment bank. The client’s team were also trained in new concepts and standards to take forward.

Testimonial

We’re a very high growth group in a complex industry and we needed a professional services partner to support us during the rapid build-out of our finance team. Grant Thornton quickly assembled a team of six, led by a highly engaging and dedicated project manager. The Grant Thornton team supported us across the finance spectrum from core accounting and process documentation through to technical accounting, audit preparation, and management. Throughout the project they were both agile and hands-on, while able to adjust to changing tactical priorities. We would definitely engage them again.

Jonathan Hugh CFO, GSR International Limited

The Grant Thornton team provided additional support to our finance team when resources were stretched. They understood the requirement and time pressures perfectly and provided an experienced and knowledgeable member of the team who worked closely with relevant members of our group to deliver a success project in the given timeframe.

Gemma Mortimer David Brown Group Limited

Helping new, limited finance team with business-as-usual

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The challenge

A finance team was struggling with its complex, international structure and demanding regulatory needs. They required a hands-on financial adviser to support business-as-usual.

The solution

The resolution relied on a strong relationship based on trust. With several projects requiring completion, we supplied a cost-effective interim, removing the need to outsource.

The result

Our resource helped deliver business-as-usual financial reporting and business priorities. We also helped simplify the group’s structure taking in accounting and tax impacts.

Guiding a global manufacturer through audit challenges

The challenge

Hundreds of audit queries were being sent to the company’s finance team every day and, following a number of corporate changes, staffing issues were adding to the challenge.

The solution

We seconded eight ex-auditors to their finance team. Appreciating the challenges from both auditor and client perspectives helped us to understand and resolve the issues quickly.

The result

We ensured auditable supporting documentation was made available swiftly for the auditors’ review, and the accounts were completed and signed off successfully within the deadline.

Achieving Audit Readiness and Improving Reporting Timelines

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The challenge

A client was facing their first UK statutory audit and needed to update their financial reporting to meet a new owner's specifications.

The solution

Planning was centred on understanding the client's priorities, knowledge and resource gaps. Delivery was defined by incrementally improving management accounts.

The result

A robust and repeatable balance sheet reporting process and a team trained in new concepts and standards.