FutureEdge CFO
COLLABORATIVE CONSULTANCY DRIVING 🅶🆁🅾🆆🆃🅷 THROUGH TECHNOLOGY, FINANCIAL EXCELLENCE AND SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS  STRATEGIES 
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"Bringing Value Of Your Business To Life"

Our vision is to empower small and medium-sized businesses to navigate today’s dynamic landscape by bringing a unique perspective on the economy, business and society. We advocate six key business principles: technology’s potential, sustainability commitment, professional expertise, human-centric capitalism, reason, and knowledge. The most influential business leaders and consulting teams embrace these principles and understand the broader forces behind them, identifying and managing risks, driving growth, and enhancing returns while promoting the well-being of all.

We help CxOs and Private Equity Firms who lead technology scale-ups and ambitious & growth-driven industrial SMEs who value expertise, forward-looking innovation, fast improvements, increased company valuations, sustainable and streamlined operations, adaptability, and business expansion.

We grow business value, focusing on the top and bottom line, cash flow, and resource efficiency. We provide diverse, end-to-end solutions when internal resources are stretched thin or an outside perspective is essential. Our network of C-Level executives is ready to step in and deliver lasting impact, ensuring your business’s continued success. 

Read brief explanations about our Signature Programs below or visit our Business Lab to learn more about our service offering, how we work and about our vast network of business partners who bring a wealth of knowledge and experience in diverse fields, from technology and finance to marketing and logistics.

If you want to get more value out of your business, you have to think of value enhancement. Using our proprietary financial and strategic frameworks, we can help with the following business challenges: 1) Profitability Problem, with the goal of maximizing your sales margins (gross and net), 2) Enter a New Market or Launch a New Product Problem, with the goal of assessing desirability, feasibility and profitability of doing so, 3) Sales Problem, with the goal of producing consistent and growing revenue streams, 4) Asset Efficiency Problem, with the goal of maximizing asset performance and return it generates to the business through revenue generations, 5) Cash Flow Problem with the goal of finding a “sweet spot” between too much cash, too little cash, and no cash, 6) Capital Structure Problem, with the goal of finding optimal balance between debt and equity financing and through this maximize the business worth. Find out more

The global Software as a Service (SaaS) market size is projected to grow from $250 billion in 2022 to $880 billion by 2029, at a CAGR of 19.7%. It is not surprising that many businesses are attracted to this market, not only because of its growing size but also very high profitability relative to traditional “brick” businesses. Despite the immense profit potential of the SaaS model, its execution is notoriously difficult and thus success is not guaranteed. The underlying reasons often have to do with SaaS business’ inability to properly manage its financial performance through different stages of the SaaS business life-cycle. We help overcome this challenge through the deployment of our proprietary 5-Pillar SaaS Financial Framework, focusing on Growth, Retention, Gross Margins, Profitability and Sales Efficiency. Our approach is holistic, as we deliver not only a world-class SaaS financial model but do so within a project & change management framework which increases exponentially the commercial and financial opportunity available to your SaaS business while minimizing disruption to your organization.  Find out more

Whether a business is a large corporation, a start-up, a scale-up, or whether it is a not-for-profit organization, there are times when it needs expert help, without delay. Our professional interim manager we can step in and be very effective in resolving business and finance problems or help seize business opportunities, whether this is due to a change in direction, climbing out of a “hole”, invigorating business growth or dealing with an unexpected or special situation. Whether managing a financial crisis, delivering a critical project, facing a crunch in the supply chain or operations, facing the need to restructure, or simply lacking in-house capability to drive business growth, your business can benefit from our interim management solution to meet your critical and immediate business needs. Find out more

We help companies exit their business or sell part of it to finance future growth. Our sell-side advisory services can support you with business succession, managing stranded cost, carving out part of your business, and increasing overall deal value while enhancing your business’ credibility in the deal and minimizing disruption brought by it. Our services include selecting of a suitable M&A strategy, preparing your business for sale, tuning your financials to maximize sell value, preparing compelling marketing material, long-listing and approaching target investors, reviewing incoming preliminary offers, shortlisting most attractive potential buyers, coordinating due diligence, negotiating final sales contract, seeking most favourable terms and conditions, and handling all closing procedures. Find out more

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) bring together companies through complete changes in ownership, and they have been used by companies for centuries and remain a major way to expand business rapidly. The main advantages of M&A transactions include business extension, building new business capabilities, increasing market power, increasing operational efficiencies, improving financial performance and optimizing its tax position. We help our clients define a successful M&A strategy, identify target companies, build a business case and financing modelling, find and approach targets, conduct due diligence, negotiate the deal and execute the transaction, and conduct successful post-merger integration to ensure the company reaches its cost and revenue synergy targets. Find out more

Conducting a post-merger integration following a merger or acquisition is an immensely challenging task. To ensure the company reaches its cost and revenue synergy targets, and to increase the value creation of your M&A deal, we offer a simple and comprehensive 3-phase approach that focuses on integration strategy, detailed integration planning, and on rigorous implementation and monitoring of the business integration. For the integration of two businesses to be successful, it needs a plan and the right skills to ensure that change occurs at both the executive level and among the delivery team. We treat thus each business integration as a project with appropriate governance, resourcing, scope definition, and the optimal business set up that converts the opportunity into success. Find out more

Getting products and service from the supplier to the end customer involves a very complex set of activities and relationships required to design, source, produce, and deliver a product or service. And a well-managed supply chain is critical to ensure that products are delivered on time, at the right quality, and at the lowest possible cost. We help businesses optimize their supply chain and manufacturing activities through a comprehensive framework that focuses on improving your supply chain management strategic capabilities, improving your organizational performance by simplifying processes and their reliability using lean six sigma and DMAIC methodology, applying business process management (BPM) to implement or optimize specific business processes, among many other things. Find out more

We help you create a holistic approach within your organization that tackles both project management and change management simultaneously. We believe that one should not come without the other. On one hand, project management focuses on defining and implementing projects that will change your organization’s structure, job roles, processes, and systems. On the other hand, change management focuses on helping individuals impacted by these changes to adapt and be successful. Far too often, we have noticed that many companies underestimate the importance of change management. The main problem is that if the employees and managers in your organization do not adopt and embrace the new changes, your projects will rarely achieve their expected return on investment. Find out more

Let’s connect and explore how we can help your business thrive in today’s dynamic landscape. Together, we can drive growth and make a lasting impact.

What We Stand For

Technology

FutureEdge CFO helps businesses embrace technology, which we believe is central to virtually any business and every business team. With the emergence of a new generation of technological tools, resources, and platforms, including the cloud, big data, AI, and robotic process automation, each business function has the potential to reach more widely, improve performance, and deliver greater benefits than ever before. And here’s the kicker: each year brings more technological advancements and businesses cannot stand still as they will be otherwise left behind.

Sustainability

FutureEdge CFO helps businesses embrace sustainable thinking, which is a disruptive force in business, and business leaders have an important role to play. Sustainable business strategies are a three-legged stool of people, planet, and profit and to balance all three through the triple-bottom-line concept is easier said than done but cannot be ignored. Today's businesses must embrace environmental and social performance in a way that drives change and delivers more business value while harnessing the power of enterprise to deliver better outcomes for people and the planet.

Skills

FutureEdge CFO helps business professionals develop skills needed in the modern world. For example, finance professionals must have solid grounding in financial techniques and principles. But they also need to be effective business partners, including being digital data explorers with a solid commercial edge, excellent collaboration skills, ability to read the market and contextualize the broader environment, tolerance for ambiguity, and well-developed emotional intelligence. Even as new tools give the business an edge, business leaders must see the bigger picture to deliver stakeholder value.

Human Capitalism

FutureEdge CFO helps businesses reshape the notion of modern capitalism, which is an economic system that has led to unparalleled innovation and improvement in the human condition. But our current emphasis on corporate profits is too narrow, creating unwanted and often painful externalities. We need to move to a new form of capitalism which is geared towards maximizing human well-being and fulfilment, where humans are more important than money, where the unit of economy is each person, not each dollar, and where markets exist to serve our common goals and values. And nobody is better positioned to lead the path here than business leaders.

Reason

FutureEdge CFO helps businesses by promoting and championing reason which represents commitment to truth, particularly by using observation and evidence which replace faith, mere authority, or ancient dogma. This commitment to the truth, and epitomized in the principles and values of the Enlightenment, has enabled humankind to grow our wealth, increase sustenance, lower inequality, and eradicate poverty, among other things. Reasoners can always step back and consider their cognitive and emotional biases and shortcomings to reason out ways to work around them. More than anyone else, business professionals must strive to demonstrate a realistic and fact-based temperament and attitude.

Knowledge

FutureEdge CFO helps businesses embrace the power of knowledge which continuously redefines what it means to be human. Our understanding of who we are, where we came from, how the world works, and what matters in life depends on partaking of the vast and ever-expanding store of knowledge. To be aware of the blunders and triumphs of past civilizations, of the intricate workings of economy and society, of the microcosms of cells and atoms and the macrocosm of planets and galaxies, lifts us to a higher plane of consciousness. It is a gift to belong to a brainy specie with a long history and each of us, including business leaders, must seek the supernova of knowledge.

How We Have Helped Our Clients

Our consultancy specializes in transformative financial management and operational restructuring, evidenced by our diverse portfolio of successful projects. We have adeptly managed crises, such as stabilizing a major medical devices company during a leadership vacuum, solved liquidity crises at an industrial company, led turnarounds of struggling businesses in the automotive sector, and skilfully executed complex spin-offs and integrations for large multinationals. Our expertise extends to optimizing processes with cutting-edge financial architectures in service industries. Our commitment to driving tangible results and strategic problem-solving is consistently recognized by industry leaders, making us a trusted partner for businesses facing challenging transitions and wanting to seize business opportunities.

What Our Clients Say

Natalia led my Europe ISC Finance team handling multiple restructurings/repositioning's, SwissCo ISC responsibilities, and finance business partnership for all of our BMS plants and distribution centers in Europe. I saw directly how she has a passion for leading and developing her team of plant finance leaders. She has a collaborative approach and an ability to problem-solve strategically. I really appreciated her contributions and leadership while working on my team.

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Austin McCormack CFO Building Management Systems, Honeywell

I had the privilege and the pleasure to work with Natalia Meissner between 2021 and 2023 when she was the CFO of Eaton’s Energy Transition, Digital and Services division. Natalia is a very reliable and business-driven finance executive, continually looking for pragmatic solutions to serve the teams. On top of the daily business, Natalia was also in charge of the financial integration of two of my companies, Green Motion and Evpass, which had been acquired by Eaton at that time. I also underline Natalia’s great people management skills.

Francois Randin General Manager and Founder Green Motion
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