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Many businesses that trade successfully are not aware of the additional trading benefits that professional effective FP&A can have on their profitability and valuation. It is often only when professional private equity owners or potential M&A investors assess the FP&A landscape that the requirement emerges saliently. The utilisation of both a wealth of data held by the business and the understandings and insights of its people can lead to an extremely powerful set of decision making tools and ultmately a re-allocation of capital that can result in a material uplift in returns and valuation for investors.

The incoming labour government and various notable market changes have had a profound impact on the education industry in the UK. This has required the board and governers of the UKs notable international and boarding schools to carefully plan how they will deploy their excess capital and other strategic levers to optimally navigate their changing environment. This requires mindful analysis of historic data and professional modelling of expectations to forecast the impact of various multi-factor scenarios on the bottom-line cashflow and returns of the business.

Investors seeking to launch new large and complex initiatives both UK and overseas require a clear and professional financial forecast that sets out the play-by-play requirements and impacts for all parties involved. This allows the entrepreneur to fully understand and more effectively and impactfully set out the proposition and gives comfort to all investors and stakeholders at the earliest stage.

Recent changes in the cost of debt and post Brexit trading difficulties have led to a number of companies within the manufacturing industry falling into distress. This presents strong investment opportunities for skilled and well-resourced private equity groups with the capacity and capability to conduct insightful due diligence quickly. Tunneys can provide such investors with clear, flexible and robust financial modelling within the necessary time frame while sharing the risk with fully contingent arrangements, thereby fully aligning incentives with the investment team.

Private equity firms are increasingly looking to invest in and exit from SaaS businesses to capitalise on the attractive recurring revenue streams and scalability potential offered. However, a successful exit of a SaaS business requires a strong and reliable source of historic and forecast FP&A data that underpin the valuation and potential avenues for value creation. In practice CFOs must work in coordination with the business, investment banks and financial / commercial due diligence teams to ensure a coherent and robust data room is acheived and supported throughout the sale process.

The UK Energy sector has been among those at the centre of the cost of living crisis is 2022/23. For any companies operating within this sector it is critical to have full clarity over business and financial data to ensure that resources are invested optimally and efficiently. Embedding data analytics in finance departments effectively can drive better decision making for both immediate value creation and continuous improvement.

UK Food Retail has been hard hit by the global pandemic and instability in europe with many businesses struggling to maintain financing and returns. In such challenging periods of uncertainty it is critical to have clear, flexible and up to date modelling such that correct actions can be taken decisively at the correct time.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a period of great uncertainty and trading difficulty facing the Retail Industry both in the UK and around the globe. At a time where a number of well-known Retail brands face closure due to mounting environmental pressures, the necessity for clear and timely performance data, cash flow forecasting and strategic modelling is becoming increasingly clear to CEOs.

Technological trends are seeing many established businesses making fundamental changes to their business model to transition into a SaaS model in recognition of the potential profitability and cash flow advantages. Such a transition however needs to be understood and planned for carefully through robust and clear finanical modelling.

Working capital and cash flow forecasting is a prevailing requirement for successful companies of all sizes as the impact of COVID-19 places pressure and uncertainty on many industries. It is critical for CFOs navigating such conditions to maintain a clear and detailed understanding of their forecast position so that they can plan for their future financing requirements in a timely manner to maximise the range and quality of options available to them.

Creating a new fund requires careful consideration of how reward and return on investment will be designed and pre-agreed. It is critical to clearly understand how different stakeholders will be affected under a range of potential scenarios.

The professional services industry is currently seeing a phase of rapid and profound transformation with opportunities presented by emerging technologies resulting in many competitors transitioning to a SaaS business model to realise greater returns. CFOs must now seek ways to invest capital wisely in order to acheive sustained growth and secure market share over the long term. This requires modelling and analytics to be pivoted and updated for the new business model and a critical reassessment of the key levers and drivers of success to be undertaken for each business.

Major Real Estate investment and management groups operate highly complex financial structures and activities. This can lead to FP&A and modelling becoming unmanageable as analysis evolves organically over time. A re-assessment and update of the modelling landscape can therefore yield significant gains in efficiency, accuracy and overall quality for REITs and their Investors.

Automating workforce data collection & utilising data as a finance management asset to improve efficiency on a high value real estate contract.

Developing economic and financial models to configure cost savings, value for money and continuous improvement on a high value multi-year contract

Embedding big data analytics and process automation to improve the speed and quality of actionable strategic insights, facilitate timely and effective planning and significant cost efficiencies

Data driven business intelligence is critical to proper management and decision making. Tunneys support businesses across industries in unifying all business data from various sources and creating data driven applications and dashboards.

Financial Models are typically complex and can present businesses with difficulty in use, interpretation and long-term management as model requirements often change and evolve over time. The correct application of financial modelling best practices can considerably reduce complexity, risk of critical errors and greatly improve the effectiveness of how models are used within businesses as decision making tools. Tunneys financial modelling services provide business users with fit-for-purpose models and greater confidence in their outputs.

Fractional CFO services provide a suite of data analysis and insights, FP&A, financial modelling and cashflow forecasting to help businesses drive profitability and cash generation. This also helps busineses to be more prepared for opportunities in M&A, re-financing and funding rounds in order to acheive better outcomes.

Our M&A and special situations services support CFOs in preparing for and working through the requirements and information requests as they evolve. We deal with all stakeholders and take ownership of the financial modelling and supporting data throughout the process.

Debt Financing or re-financing can often be necessary where a business seeks to invest in growth initiatives or where environmental shocks force business leaders to critically evaluate their ability to meet cash liabilities as they fall due. Tunneys have worked with a number of large global PLCs across a range of industries to prepare for debt re-financing through robust and credible financial forecasting.

Our cash flow forecasting and modelling enables business leaders to understand clearly their long-term and short-term cash position, movements financing requirements and how the key drivers and levers for cash flow in their business might be used to navigate challenging and critical periods.

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