About — Finateo

Built on the work itself — not theory from the outside

Finateo is a new firm, built deliberately. It exists to close the gap that usually opens between designing a finance function and actually running it. We design finance functions, integrate them after deals, and can run them day after day from our shared services center — bringing in automation where it genuinely helps.

The Team

Kushtrim Sadiki

Chief Consultant · Lecturer

M&A Finance Finance M&A Capability Entity Governance Finance Transformation

Kushtrim brings more than ten years in international finance. Today he is Finance Integration Lead in the group finance function of an international group, building its Finance M&A capability from the ground up and leading its entity governance framework across legal, tax, HR, IT, etc. Earlier, at Novo Nordisk, he led finance integration through major acquisitions hand-in-hand with the integration management office (IMO) — and, once the deals closed, led the substantial post-acquisition finance transformation that followed.

Sajaan Tahir

Chief Consultant · Lecturer

Generative AI in Finance AI Governance Executive Education

Sajaan is Chief GenAI Advisor at Danske Bank, where he guides the adoption of generative AI in one of the most regulated financial environments in Europe — the kind of setting where AI has to satisfy regulators, auditors and risk committees, not just a demo audience. At Finateo he leads our executive lectures and briefings on generative AI in finance, with one consistent focus: separating the durable from the hyped, and helping leadership govern the difference.

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 — and people change how they work when they own the change, not when they're consulted about it.

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

And we stay flexible on role: strategic advisor at board level on some engagements, hands-on in the engine room on others. That range is exactly what this kind of work needs.

What you can hold us to:

Honest scoping — if the answer is "don't do this transformation", that's the advice you'll get; and if a project falls outside what we do well, we'll say so and graciously step aside
Cross-functional by design — ownership maps and decision rights before process diagrams
Deliverables sized for action — you need to move this quarter, not feed a programme office
Accountability past the handover — through our shared services center, we live with the operational consequences of our own designs

A firm with a specialist network

Core finance advisory is delivered by Finateo. Around it sits a curated network of specialists we've worked with and vouch for — coordinated by us, so you always have one accountable counterpart.

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Tax & VAT

Cross-border tax structuring, transfer pricing and VAT compliance across jurisdictions.

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Legal

Corporate law, contracts, regulatory matters and entity-level legal structuring.

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HR & Mobility

People integration, global mobility, labour law and cross-border employment structuring.

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IT

Systems integration, ERP migration, intelligent automation, secure implementation, etc.

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Audit, Treasury & Valuation

Statutory audit coordination, treasury and cash management, business valuation and other specialist finance functions beyond our core advisory — drawn from our network and coordinated by us.

Built for depth, not volume

We're growing Finateo slowly and on purpose. Rather than serving many companies through light, arm's-length engagements, we're building a small number of close, long-term relationships — the kind where we can genuinely own a client's problems instead of skimming the surface. Depth over volume, by design.

Built on the work itself — not theory from the outside