Financial Excellence

Horváth brings a deep history in working with corporate CFOs in support of developing strategy and implementing steps to achieve financial agenda. By defining concepts aligned with regulatory standards and offering subject-matter expertise, the gap between business requirements and IT solutions is bridged. The outcome is a future roadmap for sustainable value creation.

Key solution components:

• Strategy: Enabled informed CFO decision-making by leveraging benchmarks, market research, and feasibility studies - delivered through focused strategy workshops that align financial goals with organizational capabilities.
• Processes: Increased operational efficiency and consistency through the definition and implementation of standardized, harmonized end-to-end process frameworks tailored to business needs.
• Organization: Enhanced organizational agility and effectiveness by optimizing structures, establishing shared services and outsourcing models, and driving strategic change through retention initiatives, upskilling and workforce development programs.
• Planning & Systems: Improved planning accuracy and system performance by supporting ERP landscapes with tailored tools and add-ons, leading implementation projects, conducting system audits and ensuring project success through rigorous program management and quality assurance.

Companies are continually faced with volatile markets, rapidly advancing digitalization, increasingly complex business models and regulatory requirements. The result is a shift in focus to target-oriented corporate management and leadership. This poses new challenges for the finance, accounting, treasury and tax teams. Horváth experts will help to adapt accounting, tax processes and financial and treasury management tools to remain competitive into the future.

Key solution components:

• Design, optimization, and standardization of accounting processes to ensure efficiency, transparency and compliance across all entities
• Deep functional expertise in complex accounting topics such as revenue recognition, investments, consolidation and financial instruments

Competition continues to evolve, customer requirements are increasing, along with complexity in value creation. Access to high-quality, timely and complete management information provides a decisive competitive advantage. Horváth experts support the introduction of a management model considering the relevant risk and compliance factors. This is only the beginning as the team continues to work from planning and budgeting through operational controlling and management accounting, to anchoring management reporting in systems, processes and the organization.

Key solution components:

• Strategic Planning & Forecasting: Enable agile planning through predictive modeling and rolling forecasts, aligning strategy with real-time business dynamics.
• Reporting System Logic: Design and implement business logic in reporting systems to ensure accurate, automated and decision-ready insights.
• Performance Management: KPI frameworks and dashboards provide transparency, drive accountability and support strategic execution.
• Cost & Profitability Analysis: Uncover true cost drivers and profitability levers to guide pricing, investment and efficiency decisions.
• Cash Flow & Working Capital: Optimize liquidity through improved forecasting and management of receivables, payables and inventory.
• Business Case & Investment Appraisal: Build robust, value-driven business cases to support sound investment decisions and capital allocation.
• Digital FP&A & Automation: Implement modern FP&A tools and automation to streamline finance processes and boost analytical capabilities.

Transforming uncertainty into business confidence by helping CFOs to deal with uncertainty, giving them the confidence they need to manage their business successfully. This is accomplished by optimizing risk & compliance functions and integrating them into corporate strategy and management processes. The end result is risk-based performance management and optimized decision-making.

Key solution components:

• Establishing risk & compliance management frameworks, processes, organizational structures to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements and mitigating risk
• Implementing technical solutions, such as automation, analytics & Artificial Intelligence
• AI-supported CoRi® Business Confidence Dashboard