FINANCIAL Planning & ANALYSIS

​Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) is business critical capability to manage and make decision in a rapidly changing business environment. Increasingly the use of big data and bespoke financial models are needed by all business regardless of their size, maturity or complexity to understand the dynamics that drive their business and ascertain viable options. There is an art to developing financial models that are transparent, easy to use but yet capture the core complexities of your business situation – we thrive at helping our clients gain a unique insight of their business. 


We speacialize in creating bespoke multi-year integrated projection models (Income, Cash Flows & Balance Sheet) with "what-if" scenario analysis to facilitate:

•    Annual Budgeting and Rolling Forecasts

•    Valuation

•    Equity and Debt Funding

•    Strategic Analysis – pricing, customer or product profitability 

•    Investment Evaluation – DCF, NPV & IRR analysis

•    M & A Analysis


We also provide Financial Model Audit services to evaluate the suitability and efficacy of your models.


CASE STUDY

When a Government client needed to terminate a portfolio of long-term energy contracts...

We developed a model to value the portfolio and crafted the negotiation strategy to attain an appropriate exit price

 

The challenge

Our client, an Australian state government entity, was seeking to restructure a portfolio of long-term energy supply arrangements with a major multinational. As part of a privatization process, our client was obliged to compensate the counter party in order to terminate the contract.

 

How we helped?

As part of a Big 4 team, we helped the client’s management team understand the key value drivers of each contract within the portfolio of energy supply arrangements and how they impacted with each other. 


We commenced by initially analyzing the contracts that were tied to commodity prices, exchange rates hedges, cross-border tax structures and the underlying operations of the counter party’s business over a 20-year period. The next step was to build a discount cash flow (DCF) model covering the remaining life of the contract incorporating all financial elements of the underlying contracts. Once vetted by both parties, the model was used as the valuation model to negotiate the exit price of the contracts.  


Value delivered

As part of the negotiation team, we helped to secure a 20% reduction to the initial amount demanded by the counter party and ensure the amount paid was fair and reasonable.

 

"Lead numerous strategic financial analysis projects assessing the feasibility of new ventures and undertaking business valuations. His excellent financial modelling and analysis skills, coupled with solid cross-industry experience, have enabled him to provide critical insights to improve processes and top line growth.”