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.
Chief Consultant · Lecturer
Kushtrim brings more than ten years in international finance, all of it inside the kind of organisations our clients are becoming. Today he is Finance Integration Lead in the group finance function of an international group that has recently brought mergers and acquisitions onto its agenda — building the group's Finance M&A capability from the ground up, and leading the development of its entity governance framework, defining how the group's entities and branches are operated and governed across the full cross-functional landscape: legal, tax, HR, IT, etc., and the business itself.
Earlier, as Finance Integration Lead at Novo Nordisk, he led the finance workstream through major acquisitions hand-in-hand with the integration management office (IMO) — learning, under real deadlines, what makes an integration land rather than stall. He helped define the company's Finance M&A capability at a time when brownfield acquisitions in Product Supply were unexplored ground for the organisation, and — once the deal closed — led the post-acquisition finance transformation that followed: a substantial programme in its own right, rebuilding the acquired operation's finance function, processes and reporting to run to group standards well beyond Day-1 integration.
Chief Consultant · Lecturer
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. At Finateo he leads our executive lectures and briefings on generative AI in finance — translating what actually works in enterprise AI into language boards and finance leadership can act on.
His focus: separating the durable from the hyped. Where generative AI genuinely changes finance work, where it doesn't yet, and how to govern the difference.
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 rare — and it's exactly what the work needs.
What you can hold us to:
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.
Cross-border tax structuring, transfer pricing and VAT compliance across jurisdictions.
Corporate law, contracts, regulatory matters and entity-level legal structuring.
People integration, global mobility, labour law and cross-border employment structuring.
Systems integration, ERP migration, intelligent automation, secure implementation, etc.
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.
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 of them. Depth over volume, by design.
Advice from practitioners who've owned the deadline, not observed it. That's the difference you'll feel in the first meeting.