Business Consulting for small and medium sized businesses
We provide the strategic and commercial support that enables your business to reach the next level.
Business consultant to small and medium sized businesses in the UK.
Our clients often tell us that we’re not just your bog standard Finance Director/ Finance Team.
We’re actually a business and management consultancy as well.
From providing a second ear when our clients need to chew the fat on something to very quickly unpicking the main issues in a business and providing a strategy on how to fix it.
This part of our role is how we’re so bloody good at what we do, and what sets us apart from other companies offering an Outsourced/ Factional Finance Director or Finance Team service.
What do you get?
It really depends on what the business needs, and whether you want to roll up other services that we offer such as an Outsourced Finance Director or Outsourced Finance Team.
We’ve had clients who just want a weekly catch up to get things out in the open and come up with solutions, and we’ve had clients where we go into their offices twice a month for various meetings and strategy days.
How we work:
To do our job to the best of standards, we need to get under the skin of your business.
This includes but is not limited to:
- Financial: We’ll need to see the financial statements in your business, chat to you finance team, ask questions and ensure everything is in order.
- People: We’ll put together an employee engagement survey so we can gauge where your employees feel the business is, what the strengths are, what their frustrations are and what they feel you can be doing better.
- Operations: We’ll look at systems and processes, controls and software across the business to see where things are falling down and where you can be making efficiency (and therefore money) gains.
- Clients: We’ll put together a customer satisfaction survey that will tell us how your service and products measures up to others in your industry.
- Goals: We need to know what you want to achieve in your business. We’ll explore this with you so we can start putting together a plan to get you there.
From there, we take all the data we have collected, and work with you to figure out how we move forward to solve the challenges you’re facing.
Our approach.
We take a fully holistic approach to making a business work.
There are a few areas a business needs to excel in to make a business great. If even one of these areas isn;t up to scratch, the rest of it will evenually follow, if it hasn’t already.
Once we’ve reviewed these areas and worked out a plan to go forwards, we’ll work with the business owner and the rest of the team to get these areas working properly, while keeping an eye on the personal and company goals.
We work with many different sized businesses in various industries, and we know what works.
Business is actually very simple when you know what you’re doing, so we help you learn the principles and processes so that you could start any business in any industry and know how to structure it for success.
Next steps:
We help your time and work for your money.
We deliver true results, focusing on strategic decisions and practical actions tailored to our clients' unique reality.
Satisfied Customers
That’s when I found Annie. From the moment we met, I knew she was the right person for the job. She came in for the first month to get a feel for the business and by working together we quickly identified the areas where we needed to improve. With her help, we conducted an employee engagement survey and put in place management meetings with the executive team. She helped me understand the financial side of things and put me on the path to profitability.
After almost two years of working together, I can confidently say that my business is unrecognisable from what it was before we started working together and Annie coming on board. Our staff is engaged and motivated, and our profits have never been higher. Annie’s expertise has also given me a better understanding of the financial side of things and has helped me communicate more effectively with others outside the business.&
I can’t recommend Annie highly enough. She’s not just a Virtual FD, but a Non-Exec Director and Management Consultant rolled into one. She’s helped me streamline my business, build out operations correctly, and implement new software and systems that have made us more efficient. If you’re looking for help with your business, contact Annie – you won’t regret it!”
As a business owner, it’s really great to have some external validation, and / or a second opinion on things when it comes to the strategic and day to day decision making and this is something that Annie does incredibly well.
We have a fantastic Accountant who we continue to work with, but the commercial aptitude and strategic business thinking that Annie provides is helping us accelerate our plans.
Having known each other for many years, we weren’t sure how the relationship would pan out, but it has worked well. We have a very honest and open relationship, not to mention the banter.”
We took on Annie during a period of strong growth. I was looking for high level support and in depth analysis that I didn’t have time to address. Once signed, she started with some rigorous house-keeping, ensuring all data was correct and producing detailed management accounts. We then went on to analyse turnover targets, true costs of sale and where we might reduce overheads. Annie saved us a fortune on bank fees.
<br Coronavirus hit in March 2020. The travel industry was blindsided. Annie responded quickly, clarifying the cash position of the business and how long we’d be able to continue without sales. She set about helping identify where we could make cuts. Our overheads were reduced by 80% within a week, effectively doubling the length of time we could survive without any sales.
Along the way, Annie has assisted with questions relating to HR, bonus structures and other general support. She is attentive, flexible and highly effective. I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending her.”
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