What actually breaks in group finance when you acquire companies (and why it’s not what you think…)
On-demand briefing | 45 minutes | Free
Most Group Finance leaders know that growing through acquisition creates complexity. What is less often named is what that complexity quietly takes away.
The more entities you add, the more your finance function has to dumb down its reporting just to cope. Not because the team is not capable. Because the infrastructure was not built for it. Scenario modelling gets displaced. Non-financial reporting becomes unscalable. The ambition to consolidate operational data, explore AI, give the board what it actually needs quietly goes on hold.
Not by choice. By necessity.
This is the conversation most Group Finance leaders are not having. It is the one this briefing is built around.
What you will hear:
Azim Khan, Director at AIS Consulting, and Tizi Cannings, Senior Consultant at AIS and former Financial Reporting Manager at Morson Talent, cover five failure points that consistently emerge in group finance during acquisition-led growth, including the ones that rarely make it onto a risk register, hosted by Annabelle Forrest, Growth Marketeer.
Content:
– Why intercompany reconciliation does not just slow the close, it consumes the capacity finance needs to produce insight
– How a fragmented chart of accounts becomes a blocker the moment the CFO agenda expands beyond financial statements
– Why Excel-based consolidation does not just create errors at scale, it prevents finance from becoming anything more than a backward-looking function
– How a stretched close cycle erodes board confidence not just in the numbers, but in finance’s ability to model the future
– Why group complexity forces simplification of insight at exactly the moment regulatory and board expectations are moving in the opposite direction
You will also work through a practical benchmark covering close, consolidation and planning, so you can assess where your finance function sits today versus what best-in-class looks like at scale.
Who this is for:
Group Finance and FP&A leaders at businesses growing through acquisition. If your organisation has acquired companies in the last three years, or is planning to, this briefing is directly relevant to the decisions you are navigating now.
Free. On demand. Watch it whenever works for you.