4 Strategies to Drive Company Profits
(For CFOs and Senior Finance Leaders)
High-impact practical techniques used in large national and global organizations to eliminate finance functions' barriers to success and create a profit-driven machine.
WITH THESE STRATEGIES, I'LL SHOW YOU HOW TO:
CREATE CAPACITY & A PROFIT FOCUS
Utilise my Risk Assessment Tool to set a new context so you can create capacity and refocus your team on profit-generating activities.
ESTABLISH AN INNOVATIVE CULTURE
Having a team who is not only open to change but seeking new solutions will create at least 20% capacity in your team, I’ll guide you how to create this in your business.
EMBED A SUCCESSFUL TRANSFORMATION
Break the glass ceiling on the benefits of finance transformation so you can focus your time on delivering strategic financial outcomes.
DRIVE BEST PRACTICE SOLUTIONS
Learn the everyday low cost tools that will remove those frustrating low-value tasks that are chewing up time and instead uncover opportunities to save costs and increase profits.
CFOs are stepping into roles that are more complex than ever before. But one factor remains constant: the need to maximise profit with constrained resources.
As the CFO’s role shifts from governance and reporting to driving business strategy, so must their team shift from transaction management to insights and analytics. The expectation of finance today is to partner with the business to drive financial performance, not only to report it.
Although this is broadly recognised from industry bodies to leading consultancy firms, the practicalities of creating a ‘future finance function’ today is a greater challenge.
This guide explores 4 common barriers CFOs face when creating a profit-driven team and provides practical strategies to overcome them. These strategies are underpinned by Pi on a Plate’s 4 pillars to creating a high-performing finance function; people, process, technology, and environment.
The key to success is by balancing change through four aspects of your operation: people, process, technology, and environment.
Here are the practical strategies you (the CFO) can put into immediate effect to create the capacity and capability to drive Better insights. Bigger profits.
Using Technology as a Golden Ticket (Technology)
Restructuring to Drive Transformation (People)
Accepting Inefficient Outcomes (Process)
Meet Kirsty Clark
Kirsty is a finance business partner and process improvement coach who supports executives to improve financial performance by leveraging everyday low-cost tools to create a high-performing finance function.
The 4 Strategies to Drive Business profits have been implemented in large national and multi-national organisations to create capacity, overcome the challenges of systems and processes, and refocus the finance function on profit-generating activities.
Utilising these strategies will create a highly efficient strategic function, which will lead the business in achieving its financial goals, freeing you up to act on your key role as a strategic leader.