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Building Business Value

As a business owner, everything you do should be about building value in your business. The more valuable your business, the more profit you will make while you own it, and when you come to sell the price tag will be higher. But there is much more to building value than simply increasing sales. At Secantor, we specialise in helping business owners to build value in their business. Our experienced executives can help you to do this across a variety of aspects of your business. Below are some of the areas we can assist you.

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Building value in your business is a multifaceted, continual process that should involve improvements to every aspect of your company. Secantor’s team of multi-discipline business experts include commercially experienced CFOs (Chief Financial Officers), FDs (Finance Directors), Non-Executive Directors and Management Accountants who can provide you with the support you need on a part time flexible basis to build maximum value in your business. If you’d like to find out more, please book a video call with one of our team.

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Achieving Consistent Growth

We’ll help you plan and forecast your growth so it is targeted in the right areas. Our financial modelling will reveal what investment is required to achieve your growth forecast. We’ll help you set targets and monitor performance, holding you and your team to account in achieving your goals.

Improving Profits

We’ll extract profitability information from your accounting & IT systems and help you analyse and interpret it so you can see gross profit margin by customer, product/service, market/industry, region, salesperson etc. In this way we can target the most profitable sales and improve poor performers.

Strengthen the Management Team

This area is often under-estimated. A strong accountable management team is an essential part of a successful business. Having a reliable team of effective managers to take care of the day-to-day running of your business frees you up to focus on strategic matters. When it comes to selling your business, potential buyers will want comfort that the business runs without you so a strong management team will add value. Our executives have decades of experience in strengthening management teams and can help you identify and build an effective team.

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Optimise Operational Efficiency

Inefficient business operations waste money and can lose customers. We’ll help you analyse and optimise your processes and systems, manage your staff more effectively, and monitor & improve your business performance. This will build considerable value in your business.

Well Managed Working Capital

Businesses with tight cashflow do not perform optimally. We’ll review your finances and implement improvements to increase cash in the business. This will allow you to spend more time investing in the growth of the business, as well as giving you the funds to achieve this.

Increasing Net Assets

Your net assets are the book value of your business, so improving them increases the value of your business. But it also makes your business healthier and demonstrates strength that will be appealing to customers, suppliers and funders. We’ll help you understand the drivers behind your net assets and actively work with you to improve them.

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Sound Investment

Investing in plant & machinery, people, intellectual property, business development & marketing, company acquisition etc has the potential to greatly increase the value of your business. But equally the wrong decision could have the opposite effect. One of the most important roles we play in our client’s businesses is acting as a sounding board and trusted advisor to help them make informed strategic decisions. We’ll identify and interpret the necessary data and undertake internal and external analysis to guide you to the right decision – one based on evidence, not feelings.

 

Securing Contract Terms

This gives your business stability of income and allows you to plan and forecast with greater reliability. When it comes to selling your business, contracts with good length on them will add value to your business. We can provide you with commercial support to prepare for tenders and negotiate contracts.

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Ways Secantor Will Help You

4 Develop a Plan
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5 Optimise Finances
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8 Improve Operational Efficiency
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9 Exit Your Business Successfully
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Free Business Review

No two businesses are the same. This is why we offer a free business review. We can arrange an initial chat with one of our experts to get things started. Then a couple of our team members will visit you to listen to the story of your business. From this meeting, we’ll be able to provide you with some interesting insights into your business from our independent experience. This will allow you to see how we work and help us to select the right expert for your business. Contact us to book a free consultation.

Why not read one of our short case studies to learn about Secantor's impact.

“We will never forget your huge contribution to Montezuma’s and your constant support, encouragement and all the board room laughs. Thank you for everything!” - Helen Pattinson, MD & Co-founder of Montezuma’s Chocolates

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Our Services

We help you make strategic decisions

Secantor provides expert financial and management support to SME owners and directors. Our commercially experienced team covers the following roles.

1 Non-Executive Director

Non-Executive Director

Strategic support and experience to guide you as you make decisions and build value in your business. A NED acts as a sounding board for your ideas, improves business performance, holds you and your team to account and helps you achieve a successful exit.

Responsibilities

✓ Strategic business planning

✓ Support strategic decision-making

✓ Set business goals and objectives

✓ Rejuvenate struggling businesses

✓ Manage growth effectively

✓ Implement best practice

✓ Sounding board for your ideas

✓ Set and communicate vision

✓ Hold you & your team to account

✓ Build an effective management team

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2 Finance Director

Finance Director

Expert financial leadership from a commercially experienced, qualified accountant. An FD will create financial plans, report your monthly performance against budget and interpret the figures to help you make sound decisions & improve profitability.

Responsibilities

✓ Expert financial advice

✓ Interpret financial results a support decisions

✓ Develop & oversee your finance team

✓ Improve profitability & control costs

✓ Prepare management accounts

✓ Create 3-5 year financial plan

✓ Budget setting

✓ Source appropriate funding

✓ Cashflow forecasting & management

✓ Prepare reports & commentaries for your bank

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3 Operations Director

Operations Director

Strategic operational leadership to transform your people and business processes to improve efficiency and profitability. An Operations Director helps you build a strong management team, delegate operational actions and improve business performance.

Responsibilities

✓ Develop strength in your management team

✓ Establish key performance indicators (KPIs)

✓ Hold people accountable to achieve results

✓ Process and quality improvement

✓ Help you delegate effectively

✓ Create clear job descriptions

✓ Identify and recruit talent

✓ Implement robust operational systems

✓ Establish clear goals and expectations

✓ Enable your team to achieve excellence

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