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Finance as a key partner
in driving value and
transformation
Sustainable
value through a
high-performing
organization
Our finance transformation services help you find a balance between your business
strategy aspirations and operational model, so that you can respond to changing
priorities and stakeholder requirements with agility. We look for opportunities to
continuously improve business performance through five broad offerings:
Visioning and assessment: Balancing insight, efficiency and controls and compliance to
enhance the finance function’s strategic role within the business.
Alternate service delivery: Addressing operational issues to develop operating models that help
finance deliver on its mandate (often through the use of outsourcing and/or shared services).
Enterprise performance management: Designing and implementing methodologies for
growth, profitability, value creation, meeting strategic objectives and sustainable results.
Economics and statistics: Making more informed decisions by undertaking economic and
statistical data analysis and market research.
Delivering deal value: Capturing value from mergers, acquisitions, divestitures or carve-out
transactions quickly and efficiently to achieve desired synergies.
Our consulting and finance expertise can help improve your bottom line by enhancing the
performance of your finance function, increasing alignment between financial and operating
systems and data structures, or developing an internal controls and compliance structure
that’s right for your business.
For more information please give us a call, or visit our website at www.pwc.com/ca/finance.
You can find our latest articles and publications,
including our CFO Agenda Series at
www.pwc.com/ca/finance-publications
Positioning for the future
Our team partners with you to create a vision for the future state of finance and strikes a
balance between insight, controls and compliance and efficiency for your organization.
As we move forward in an environment of increased volatility, insight continues to be key
in helping businesses stay ahead of changing conditions. CFOs also look to improve the
efficiency and effectiveness of their finance processes. At the same time, focus on control
implications and new financial, operational and compliance risks are critical to making
the business more resilient and sustainable.
Visioning and assessment
Chief financial officers (CFOs) and their teams are struggling with increasing and
competing demands placed upon them. With the growing compliance burden, the
finance function has become subject to increasing cost pressure even while the demand
for better management information challenges the function to do more at a lower cost.
Creating an efficient, effective
and agile finance function
The speed and reliability of business processes and financial information are
more critical than ever before for decision makers and provide an opportunity
for the financial function to take on a key role in the organization by driving
efficiency and effectiveness in finance operations.
We help our clients improve on all areas of finance function operations
through sustainable cost reduction, shared services and outsourcing, process
improvement and enabling technologies. We support you through all stages of
finance transformation: strategize and assess (feasibility and business case),
design, construct, implement and review.
Alternate service delivery
As the needs of the business continue to shift, the role of the finance function
also changes. Leading organizations are constantly pushing the limits
and delivering increased value while facing challenges such as large-scale
information systems implementations, emergence of distributed operational
models for finance, radical changes in regulatory requirements, cutbacks and
implications from the financial crisis.
Linking day-to-day activities to your strategy
Our team of consultants helps bridge the gap between short-term market or
stakeholder expectations and the long-term durability of your business or
organization. Through process rigour, information management, metrics and
employee alignment, we help you better understand and exploit the relationships
between strategy, planning and operational processes.
We collaborate with you to develop a roadmap that can be adopted at a pace that’s
suitable for your organization, ensuring that the right performance drivers are
identified and the root causes of performance challenges are addressed proactively.
Enterprise performance management
Managing a successful business or organization is about more than forecasting
earnings out to the next quarter or preparing estimates as part of the annual
budgeting process. It’s about achieving high performance and creating sustainable
value year after year by identifying the performance issues your organization faces
and addressing their root causes.
Making information-based decisions
Our economists and statisticians help you undertake economic, statistical and market
research and analysis to support your strategic initiatives, projects and public policy
objectives. Our team combines a deep understanding of economic fundamentals with
practical public and industry experience to help you strengthen and support your
business case aimed at influencing key stakeholders, including the government. We also
analyze, understand and interpret studies, research and surveys and act as a technical
resource for our clients across sectors.
By applying practical and relevant economic insights that reflect public policy and
industry priorities, you are empowered to make short- and long-term decisions and
develop more informed strategies.
Economics and statistics
Making a decision to launch a new product, planning a major investment or even
changing your corporate structure are not actions taken in isolation. Instead, they are
influenced by many complex and interconnected economic factors and external events.
Achieving the full value
of business transactions
Our transaction and industry professionals help ensure that transactions are handled
with speed, focus and attention to detail. We help you execute rapid integrations and
divestitures to achieve desired synergies and allow for a quick return to ‘business as usual.’
Our flexible approach increases your shareholder value, frees up human and financial
capital for reinvestment in core operations and enables you to complete a greater number
of successful transactions in a shorter period of time.
Delivering deal value
Many corporate and private equity buyers and sellers are often challenged with achieving
the full value of transactions, with deals falling short when the time comes to translate
strategy into the right mix of people, process and technology. To improve their odds,
buyers must make early use of disciplined planning, prepare a well-coordinated launch
and relentlessly focus on the key value drivers behind the deal.
What we do
We believe that finance is one of the key drivers of business
transformation. Based on your business needs, we offer a
wide range of services that can transform your organization.
Visioning and
assessment
Alternate
service
delivery
Enterprise
performance
management
Economics
and statistics
Delivering
deal value
Finance benchmarking
Finance transformation
Strategy development
Finance effectiveness
diagnostics
Operational reviews
Effective planning
and reporting
Economic impact
studies and analysis
Carve-out and
divestiture support
Statistical and
econometric forecast
models
Operational due
diligence
Finance assessment
Business case
development
Sustainable cost
reduction
Shared services
Outsourcing strategy
Process improvement
Enabling technologies
Performance
measurement
Business intelligence
and information
management
Planning, budgeting
and forecasting
Consolidations
Industry analysis,
jurisdictional reviews
and benchmarking
Public policy research
and analysis
Survey and key
stakeholder consultation
Merger integration
support
Contacts
For more information,
please call us or visit our website:
www.pwc.com/ca/finance
National Finance
Effectiveness Leader
Toronto
Vancouver
Kishan Dial
416 687 8525
[email protected]
Samir Bishara
416 814 5730
[email protected]
Jeff Wong
604 806 7105
[email protected]
Alison Glober
416 687 8527
[email protected]
Evan Kelly
416 815 5082
[email protected]
Stephen Martin
416 941 8350
[email protected]
Calgary
Todd Dixon
403 509 6388
[email protected]
Montreal
Sebastien Doyon
514 205 5382
[email protected]
PwC Finance publications
www.pwc.com/ca/finance-publications
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