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Finance Consulting: Strategic Finance for Growth-Minded Businesses

Your financial operations should be more than functional—they should be a strategic advantage. Whether you’re preparing for rapid growth, stabilizing operations, or enhancing reporting, Smith + Howard’s Finance Consulting team—powered by Fahrenheit Advisors and S+H Consulting—delivers the insight and execution your business needs to move forward with confidence.

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Our Finance Consulting Capabilities

We partner with sponsors, boards, and executive teams to provide deep financial expertise, actionable analysis, and the tools required to make sound, strategic decisions. From hands-on financial management to transformation strategy, our team of senior consultants, analysts, and finance leaders delivers custom solutions that drive clarity, control, and performance.

Partner with Smith + Howard’s Finance Consulting team to gain clarity, insight, and confidence in your financial operations. We can help you turn finance into a driver of performance. Explore our services below.

Comprehensive services to meet your needs

  • financialplanning-icon Financial Planning + Analysis
  • data visualization-icon Analytics + Data Visualization
  • fractional-icon Fractional + Interim
  • finance transformation-icon Finance Transformation
  • treasury-icon Treasury + Capital Management
  • risk-and-compliance-icon Risk + Compliance Advisory

Financial Planning + Analysis

Our finance professionals support organizational growth with expert planning, forecasting, and profitability strategies. Acting as your finance partner, we bring decades of leadership experience to improve visibility and decision-making.

  • Budgeting + Forecasting: Build plans that align with your goals and adjust quickly to change.
  • KPI Development + Reporting: Track what matters most to drive performance.
  • Profitability Management: Understand the levers that impact your bottom line.
  • Price-Volume-Mix + Margin Analysis: Make data-backed pricing and margin decisions.
  • Turnaround Management: Identify root causes, implement recovery strategies, and improve outcomes.

 

Analytics + Data Visualization

Gain real-time, actionable insights across your organization with our ready-to-deploy Power BI dashboards. Designed for speed and scalability, our tools integrate with your existing data and systems—unlocking critical business intelligence in days, not weeks.

  • Day-One Post-Acquisition Data Visibility: Providing dashboards of key metrics across business lines.
  • Real-Time Financial + Operational Dashboards: Real-time visibility on data that counts.
  • Customizable + Scalable to Any Dataset: Does not require strong systems infrastructure or clean data to create visualizations.
  • User-Friendly, Secure, and Mobile-Compatible: Customizable permissions, mobile-device and ease of use.
  • Rapid, Cost-Effective Implementation: Development and licensing costs are a fraction of the expense of competing data visualization tools.

Fractional + Interim Resources

When your business faces leadership gaps or capacity challenges, our seasoned professionals step in quickly to keep operations running smoothly and strategically.

  • Business Advisory: Interim CEOs, COOs, and Chief Turnaround Officers to guide critical transitions.
  • Finance + Accounting: Fractional CFOs, Controllers, and Accountants to stabilize and support financial operations.
  • Human Capital: CHROs, HR Directors, Managers, and Specialists to lead or augment your people function.
  • Sales Advisory: CROs, VPs of Sales, and Business Development leaders to accelerate growth and drive results.

Finance Transformation

When it’s time to evolve, we bring structure and clarity to your finance function. Our transformation framework assesses current capabilities, sets a vision, and implements initiatives that align people, process, and technology to a future-ready state.

  • Finance Assessment + Benchmarking
  • Future State Visioning + Target Setting
  • Roadmap Development + Execution
  • Cross-Functional Process Redesign
  • Reporting + Insight Enablement

Treasury + Capital Management

Managing liquidity effectively is essential to sustaining and scaling a business. We support treasury operations with insights and tools to improve working capital, fulfill financial obligations, and support strategic investments.

  • Cash Flow Forecasting 
  • Liquidity Optimization
  • Borrowing Base Reporting
  • Distressed Liquidity Planning

Risk + Compliance Advisory

Proactively manage risk while ensuring your operations meet regulatory and legal requirements. Our consultants help you strike the right balance between operational agility and compliance confidence.

  • Operational Risk Assessments
  • Regulatory Compliance Support
  • Internal Controls Development
  • Governance Framework Design