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Deep Financial Understanding

Having a thorough understanding of your finances is vital.  After all, they are the primary indicator of business performance.  But many business owners do not have a complete grasp of their accounts and to some they can be overwhelming.  Leaving it all to your accountant is not the answer because you need to overlay a detailed commercial understanding of the workings of your business to interpret the figures properly.

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How to Improve Your Business Finances

To optimise your finances you will need an experienced specialist.  This is where a Secantor Finance Director comes in.  Our team of part-time experts have a wide commercial experience and will help you master your finances.  We will:

  • Get to know you and your business. This is an essential first step so we can tailor our approach to align with your strategic plans.
  • Create a financial forecast that converts your business plan into numbers.  This tool is essential for every business owner as it give you a target to compare actual performance against and is perfect supporting evidence for funding applications.  Several scenarios can be modelled to show the financial outcome of different levels of business performance or strategic choices.
  • Produce accurate monthly management accounts that match costs with sales to produce a true gross profit margin.  Our FD will interpret the accounts for you and help you make informed strategic decisions based on the results.
  • Carry out detailed financial analysis to identify where you make the most and least profit.  We’ll analyse your gross profit by product, service, customer, sector / industry and region, or any other variable that seems appropriate to your business. We’ll help you use this information to make decisions about where to focus your efforts and money.
  • Manage cashflow pressures. We will implement our simple-to-use cashflow forecasting model so you can see how much cash you will have in future weeks and months. If cash is under pressure we will help you to manage debtors and creditors to maximise your cash.
  • Identify and eliminate waste.  We’ll conduct a thorough review of your costs and recommend ways to cut unnecessary expenditure.
  • Secure investment funding. Whatever your reason for needing additional funds, our team can create a financial model to show your borrowing requirements and your ability to repay. We have contacts with a range of finance providers and we’ll help you weigh up the options and select the best option for your business.
  • Review the effectiveness of your finance function.  Where required we can make improvements to your processes & systems and provide support and training to your team.
  • Help manage your banking relationship to ensure your business gets the very best service.
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Cost Effective

Finances needn’t be a mystery and they certainly shouldn’t give you any unexpected nasty surprises.  Secantor’s high calibre FDs will ensure you have everything covered.  With our flexible service, your part-time FD will have the same impact as employing one full-time FD but at a fraction of the cost.  You’ll find having one as part of your team is very reassuring.

“Secantor makes us make decisions. What we are getting is a whole world of advice. The cost has paid for itself 100 times over.”
Richard Atherton

Founder & MD Juno Records

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Ways Secantor Will Help You

4 Develop a Plan
Develop & Implement A Successful Plan
5 Optimise Finances
Optimise Your Finances
6 Develop a Team
Develop A Strong Accountable Team
7 Build Value in Your Business
Build Value In Your Business
8 Improve Operational Efficiency
Improve Operational Efficiency
9 Exit Your Business Successfully
Exit Your Business Successfully

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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.

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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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