Hands-on support and expertise in controlling

Our consultants combine operational expertise in finance with a broad strategic and analytical perspective. We offer flexible support in controlling, covering the various controlling specialties. This ensures you always have the right controlling expertise to strengthen your finance department.

Our Business Controllers facilitate the clear interpretation of financial data through well-organized reporting. They translate complex KPIs into clear reports and dashboards, eliminating blind spots and creating space for strategic analysis and decision-making.

• Insightful reporting and dashboarding: Structuring reliable management reports and interactive dashboards. We transform raw data into clear insights, enabling management to quickly make the right strategic decisions.
• Dynamic budgeting & forecasting: Streamlining the budgeting cycle and setting up (rolling) forecasts. This allows your organization to proactively respond to changing market conditions.
• Pragmatic business partnering: Bridging the gap between finance and the business. Our controllers translate the numbers into on-the-ground reality, ensuring that decisions made on the work floor are always based on up-to-date data insights.

Our Group Controllers support group reporting across the entire process. They ensure streamlined reporting across all business units, enabling group management to make decisions based on a single, reliable source of truth.

• Consolidation & harmonization for a consistent group view: Standardizing data definitions and reporting flows across different entities and regions, following an acquisition (M&A) or within organizations undergoing rapid expansion or transformation.
• Uniform group planning: Coordinating and streamlining budgeting and forecasting cycles among the various subsidiaries to align with group objectives.

Our Plant Controllers serve as a bridge between the production floor and management. They translate complex operational parameters into tangible financial impact, enabling site management to proactively drive cost efficiency.

• Production efficiency & KPIs: Setting up clear shop floor reports on scrap rates, downtime, and yield to make operational losses immediately visible and manageable.
• Capacity & cost control: Conducting in-depth variance analyses on production costs and capacity utilization rates to maximize margins at the site level.

Our Commercial Controllers provide deeper insights into the profitability of your sales channels and product portfolio. They translate commercial data into strategic insights, ensuring that pricing and margins are optimally managed in a volatile market.

• Margin & return on investment analyses: In-depth insights into profitability by customer, product line, or region to provide a data-driven foundation for pricing strategies and discount structures.
• Commercial performance monitoring: Building dynamic dashboards that directly link the impact of marketing campaigns and sales efforts to the gross margin.

Our Cost Controllers create the necessary structure to transparently map out, monitor, and actively manage your organization’s expenses. They help identify inefficiencies and foster a proactive, cost-conscious culture without compromising operational effectiveness.

• Expenditure analysis & cost control: A thorough review of operating expenses (OPEX) and capital expenditures (CAPEX) to immediately identify deviations from the budget.
• Pragmatic cost reduction: Identifying and eliminating hidden inefficiencies and establishing continuous improvement processes that yield structural savings.

Our Cost Accounting consultants ensure accurate and transparent cost allocation as an indispensable foundation for strategic pricing and margin decisions. They bring structure to your cost accounting systems, making the actual profitability of your operational activities crystal clear.

• Product costing & variance analysis: Accurately defining standard costs and thoroughly analyzing variances between actual and budgeted costs.
• Inventory valuation & compliance: Establishing effective valuation methods and reporting systems that contribute to the integrity of the balance sheet and audit readiness.

Our operational support in controlling provides immediate stability and high-quality expertise for your organization. Through our pragmatic consulting services in controlling and reporting, we take it a step further. We offer specialized expertise in building and structuring your controlling and reporting functions. We redesign your processes and optimize your systems and data architecture for the future.

Our impact is proven time and again in practice. Our controlling consultants support organizations when staffing levels are tight or during transformations. Click through to our reference cases and discover how we make a real difference.

At OMP, we ensured continuity within the finance team, strengthened the controlling and consolidation processes, and accelerated the shift toward proactive business partnering. For TUI Belgium, we consolidated the financial data from various entities into valuable management forecasts. At food company Paulig, we refined margin control and digitized data insights using Power BI. And in a complex industrial environment, we stabilized the controlling function following a sudden staff shortage and generated forward-looking EBITDA insights.

Prevent delays in your controlling and reporting due to understaffing or a complex transformation. Our controllers bring the necessary do-how to take your management reporting to the next level by drawing from their experience working with various organizations and tailoring their approach to your specific situation.
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