Deal & Growth Finance Advisory

Helping companies build a well-operating and transparent finance function

Where finance is integrated with its partnering functions and the wider business

We help companies navigate deals, growth and change. Our approach connects finance with the functions around it — legal, tax, HR, IT, etc. — because that's where transformation actually happens. And when the design is done, we don't walk away: our shared services center can run the finance operations we build.

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10+
Years in
International Finance
04
Service
Pillars
M&A
Finance Integration
& Transformation
SSC
Delivery Center
Tetovo
What We Do

Turning complexity into clarity and efficiency

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Finance Transformation Design

We design the finance operating model so it reaches into the business-support functions around it — legal, tax, HR, IT, etc. — and fits the company's wider support-function landscape. Finance only runs optimally when it's structured alongside everything that touches it; that's why the cross-functional aspect matters.

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Post-Merger Finance Integration

We assess the target's finance structure against the buyer's setup — an assessment, not a full technical due diligence — then run the full finance integration, combining the two along with the business-support functions around them: mobility, legal, travel, HR, etc.

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Entity Governance & Structuring

Entity setup, PE lifecycle, restructuring, wind-down and exit-readiness across jurisdictions — the legal-financial backbone your growth and deal agenda depends on.

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Shared Services Center — Tetovo, North Macedonia

Beyond advice: our nearshore center can run finance operations for our clients — project controlling, accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable and adjacent finance functions. It's a repeatable setup built for efficiency and security, with the highest regard for how sensitive client data is: no one sees a client's data before the client approves it, and clients keep a constant, clear view of their counterpart team. Designed by the advisory and governed transparently through the client portal.

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How We Work

Advise. Build. Run.

Most advisors hand over a slide deck and leave. We're built on a simpler conviction: the firm that designs your finance function should be willing to stand behind how it runs. Running it with us is optional — a choice you can make later in the process, not a lock-in. We always hand over something we can stand behind on its own, so the operational step stays a free choice.

Advise

Strategy & Design

Finance transformation, post-merger integration and entity governance — scoped cross-functionally with legal, tax, HR, IT, etc., advised at board level or hands-on in the engine room.

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Build

Implementation

Target operating models turned into working processes: systems configured, controls established, teams trained and governance anchored — with automation added where it genuinely earns its place.

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Run

Ongoing Operations

Our shared services center in Tetovo takes over the day-to-day: project controlling, accounting, AP, AR and reporting — with full transparency through your client portal.

How the delivery model works
Our Approach

We start in finance. We don't stop there.

Finance transformation fails when it's scoped as a pure finance initiative. Every operating model change requires people outside finance to change how they work. Every post-merger integration needs cross-functional alignment that doesn't exist on day one.

We work across finance, legal, tax, HR, IT, etc. — because that's how reality works. Leading finance integration hand-in-hand with the IMO on major acquisitions — and leading finance transformations at large Danish companies — taught us that cross-functional ownership is what determines whether a transformation lands or stalls.

Whether we're brought in as strategic advisors or embedded hands-on in the team, we build solutions that work across the organisation — and that last beyond our engagement.

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Assess

Understanding the current setup, pain points and transformation ambitions through structured discovery and process mapping.

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Design

Building the target operating model with clear workstreams, milestones and cross-functional ownership — grounded in what's achievable.

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Implement

Working alongside the team to execute changes, build governance structures and ensure the transformation sticks.

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Run or Handover

Either we transfer ownership so your organisation sustains the model independently — or our shared services center keeps running the operations for you.

Nearshore Advantage

Why North Macedonia

EU-aligned regulation, a deep pool of finance and accounting talent, CET time zone, and operating costs 40–60% below Western Europe. North Macedonia is one of Europe's most underrated nearshore destinations — and we know it from the inside: we run our own shared services center there, backed by a broad professional network across the country, especially in finance.

It's where our shared services center operates, and where we advise companies evaluating the country as an outsourcing, nearshoring or project destination.

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CET

Same time zone as your European headquarters

40–60%

Typical cost advantage vs. Western European operations

EU

Candidate country with EU-aligned accounting and tax frameworks

EN

English-proficient finance talent with international experience

Insights

Thinking that earns its place

Articles and anonymised case studies from the work — frameworks, concrete examples and the occasional hard-won lesson.

Article
Post-Merger Integration

Integration has a deadline. Transformation has a grey zone.

Mixing the two is the most common — and most expensive — mistake in post-merger finance work. Here's how to keep them apart.

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Finance Transformation

Your finance transformation looks great. Until you ask the rest of the organisation.

Why transformations scoped as pure finance initiatives stall — and the ownership model that prevents it.

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Entity Governance

An entity is never just an entity.

Every legal entity is a subscription you keep paying whether you use it or not. A lifecycle lens for cleaning up overgrown structures.

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Case Study
Danish Manufacturing SME · Reporting Platform

A plug-and-play reporting platform, built to management's own criteria

A Danish manufacturer came to us with no financial platform to track year-to-date performance or a credible full-year forecast — and a clear ask: an automated, plug-and-play reporting platform for daily operations, pulling exactly the figures management cared about.

Case Study
Danish Public-Sector Tax Authority · Forecasting & Reporting

Forecasting the right control strategy under a fraud-case backlog

A Danish public-sector tax authority needed to project resource needs in its dividend-tax department during a major dividend-tax fraud case — with a hard constraint: interest accrued on any case left open longer than six months.

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Let's talk it through

Whether you're navigating a deal, scaling into new markets, or redesigning how finance works across the organisation — a conversation is the right starting point.

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