Financial Performance
Proactively sustaining optimisation of the balance sheet is a perennial challenge in driving and delivering a business strategy through an economic cycle.
- Business strategy and financial performance have an intuitive correlation and complex inter-dependency that requires proficient management and strong governance.
- CEO/CFO and top team bear collective responsibility for efficient deployment of financial resources to drive strategic priorities for achieving performance targets.
- Our balance sheet diagnostics reflect transparent state of financial health, and are evaluated on merits to identify optimal and sub-optimal business performance and related funding gaps, and recommend revisions to reoptimise structural financing mix with specific relevance to :
- Efficient deployment of capital vis-à-vis term and contingent liabilities – to evaluate alternate funding structures that optimally match overall financial needs.
- Reinforcing the strategic priority of working capital – identify essential solutions to achieve and maintain optimal operating range of working capital cycle.
- Conceiving financing structures to enhance borrowing capacity – with efficient blend of supply chain funding including structured trade finance, alternate working capital structures, capex lease financing, etc.
- Balance Sheet performance enhancement – incorporating reoptimized financing structures reinforced with contingency financing plans.
- Evaluating balance sheet resilience – with stress-testing of financial projections against plausible sensitivity and scenario-based analysis.
- Recommendations on how best to preserve and protect key assets and optimise wealth of the group.
- Instituting a systematic review mechanism to realign structural financing mix to enhance debt financing efficiency.
- Structure and implement strategies to drive and sustain performance turnaround in financial crises, by:
- Developing resolution strategy calibrated with efficient financial restructuring to facilitate implementation of turnaround initiatives and mitigate performance setback.
- Articulating inherent strengths and related risk mitigation to be achieved from performance turnaround and restoring operational efficiency.
- Presenting financial institutions with merits of restructuring proposal that resolves challenges with existing lenders and financial creditors to negotiate:
- Essential debt restructuring solutions that facilitate turnaround including negotiation of pricing, collateral, covenants & conditions.
- Credible arrangements with lenders to standstill & forbear, whilst the restructuring is implemented.
