Financial Advisory & Management Controls

Our Financial Consulting services consists of eight main disciplines: Transaction Services, Corporate Finance, Crisis and Recovery, Risk Management, Accounting Advisory, Tax Advisory, Real Estate Advisory and Forensics and Litigation. Our Transaction Services provide our clients with a range of services related to the acquisition, merger or divestiture of an organisation.

Our services range from setting a Merger and Acquisition strategy, screening targets, valuations and due diligence in the pre-proposal process to post-merger integration support and other operational transaction services after a proposal has been unveiled. Corporate Finance is the area of our consulting that deals with funding and capital structure matters. Our key propositions include financing (including alternative investments) restructuring, working capital management (also closely tied to the finance consulting department within operations consulting), IPO’s and capital markets.

When our clients find themselves in financial difficulties, they commonly turn to crisis and recovery advisors. Our experts help them with getting a grip on the crisis situation (short term) and subsequently ensuring a turnaround plan is in place for the longer term. Our key services include insolvency or bankruptcy (our Management Consultants are often called in as administrators), restructuring, turnaround advisory and debt management.

Our Risk Management Consultants help organisations with ensuring that uncertainty in the enterprise and market does not impact (or minimally impacts) business goals. Our main offerings are, among others, Risk Management (analysing risks and ensuring a process and governance is in place to mitigate risks), Risk Control (setting up the right warning systems that can detect risks), Internal Audit (assessments aimed at mapping risk profiles and compliance) and IT Risk; which covers the growing risks in the information technology arena such as cybersecurity, digital governance and enterprise data management.

Our Tax Advisory department centres around helping enterprises adhere with tax law, which includes propositions such as corporate tax strategy, location advisory, transfer pricing and tax aligned supply chains. Our Accounting Advisory focuses on supporting our clients with optimising the accounting and financial reporting challenges facing their businesses and the finance function. Our projects entail boosting the efficiency of the accounting function, improving financial reporting quality and flows, and ensuring compliance to regulatory requirements at all levels, from International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to local legislation.

Our Real Estate Advisory department supports our clients with financial matters in the area of real estate and property management. Our key offerings include location advisory, real estate valuations, transaction support on property deals and optimising real estate asset portfolios (often in combination with financial asset management). Our clients span four stakeholders types: governments and local municipalities, housing corporations (i.e. strategic supply management, risk management), companies (portfolio management, location support) and real estate investors (i.e due diligence, portfolio analysis).

Our Forensics and Litigation department supports our clients with a range of services that follow from actual or anticipated disputes or litigation cases. Our propositions include dispute advisory, forensic accounting services (which combines accounting, auditing and investigative skills), litigation support and electronic discovery (or e-discovery). Our work can range across industries and topics – our Forensic Consultant (also known as an auditor or investigative auditor) delivers economic damage calculations for the public sector, antitrust bodies or companies, support tax fraud and money-laundering investigations, or even look into digital crimes such as cyber-attacks or data theft.

Unlike any of our consulting departments, the main disciplines within our Financial Consulting are less related from a functional perspective – our grouping is based on the dependency on financial skills and competencies, combined with analytical rigour in many cases. As a consequence, our disciplines can, to a large extent, be seen as separate service areas: our Corporate Finance or Merger and Acquisition Consultant, for example, performs substantially different activities from our Risk Expert, while our Forensics Engagement entails completely different activities from our Property Valuation Projects. In addition, our share of Financial Consulting services overlaps with our consulting departments and even non-consulting services. For instance, our Corporate Finance and Merger and Acquisitions services are also offered by our Strategy Consultants, while Litigation and Forensic Services are also part of our service portfolio. Our financial side of Compensation and Benefits – part of our HR Consulting department – also falls within our scope of Financial Advisory, particularly pensions and healthcare consulting.