Strategic Finance

Improve the quality of your strategy and decision making process by using data.

Improve your strategy and decision making process with the insights from data analytics

Uncertainty is inherent to every decision. Insights from data analytics can minimize that uncertainty. Strategic finance formulates insights based on available data, which serve as input for decision-making. This data can come from both internal (accounting, CRM, ERP, …) and external data sources (market research, government studies, …) and is structured in an unique and uniform way. As a result, a single source of truth is created within the organization, allowing to obtain certain insights (actual cost, profit potential, customer churn, …) that were previously ‘invisible’.

Based on these datasets, scenarios (what-if) are created to measure the impact of your strategic decisions on predefined KPIs. Moreover, by leveraging new technology, the probability of an outcome for a given scenario can be predicted.

Strategic Finance in practice

Strategic finance adds significant value in a decision making process and is relevant for every company, such as in:

    • Creating accurate and real-time management reporting
    • Developing a go-to-market and distribution strategy
    • Drafting a business plan to invest in new equipment
    • Defining annual budgets
    • Measuring and predicting the financial impact of a marketing campaign
    • Determining the pricing & discount strategy based on the value potential of a product or customer
    • Assessing the impact of customer satisfaction on revenue and costs
    • Cash flow planning
    • Predicting customer churn
    • Currency exchange impact

How can we help?

Do you need additional insights and analyses for decision-making or defining your strategy? But you lack sufficient capacity and/or expertise in-house? Finforces is your partner and can assist you in various ways.
    • Execution of ad hoc projects
    • Strategic-finance-as-a-service: we offer long-term support so you don’t need to build a team
    • Structural integration of strategic finance into your decision-making process
    • Advice on the selection of tools and systems
    • Support in building a team
Finforces has many years of experience as a sounding board for founders, entrepreneurs, management teams and business unit managers in defining strategy and improving their decision-making process.

Snapshot of recent projects

    • Execute a market analysis to determine the revenue potential of a new product.
    • Use product profitability as input for product design, optimization of the current product portfolio and determin the pricing strategy.
    • Analysis of customer lifetime value creation per distribution channel to support the allocation of marketing & sales budgets across the different channels.
    • Implementing customer profitability as a key driver for defining a new commission model.
    • Develop a scenario analysis to support a buy-or-build decision regarding the entry into a new market segment.
    • Cash flow forecasting, including scenario analysis.
    • Use the total cost of ownership including revenue potential as key driver in the selection of an ERP system.

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in touch

You want to improve the quality of your decision making process by integrating data analytics?We are always ready to discuss your challenges and to determine how we can help you.

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