A recent study suggests that current financial management models lack the effectiveness and flexibility to accommodate the needs of global enterprises from a business performance analysis and risk management perspective and CFO's are unable to effectively measure and monitor business performance.

Arthur Lawrence Finance Transformation Practice is designed to accelerate the analysis of a client's finance function, and the development of clear and concise finance transformation opportunities, supported by the application of our world-class finance function solution offerings.

Business challenges

• Inability to efficiently and accurately assess company financial performance
• Sub-optimal finance functions characterized by high cost of finance, financial control/risk management issues, regulatory and statutory compliance challenges (SOX, SEC reporting, IFRS)
• Underperforming finance functions and inability to determine root causes and potential solutions
• Lack of finance transformation/change/improvement strategy or lack of a clear approach and roadmap for finance function transformation
• Inability to define key measures/metrics of finance function performance to quantify current inefficiencies, and develop a business case for change

Why ALW?

Arthur Lawrence has a strong record of serving as a trusted advisor to CFOs and finance leaders. Our dedicated teams of research and thought leadership professionals provide insights into the issues facing finance professionals. This help us to enabling us to offer deep finance function expertise coupled with effective technology implementation and integration capability.

We offer proven finance transformation tools and experience, such as SAP, Oracle and Hyperion. ALW financial management consulting services bring strong partnerships; we are the number one SAP Consulting Provider and a leading integrator of Oracle/Hyperion applications.

Our FT Practice

• Addresses the complete CFO agenda
• Applies world-class finance function principles to root cause analysis and resolution
• Identifies a roadmap of initiatives, appropriately staged and prioritized, for a change program to improve finance effectiveness
• Produces a full business case to support the change program