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Seven areas of work to strengthen your management.
Each solution can be engaged independently or combined, depending on your company's maturity and priorities.
Business Diagnosis
A structured analysis to identify short- and mid-term financial and operational opportunities.
A diagnosis built with a CEO, CFO, and Controller's perspective — it doesn't end in a report, it becomes an implementation roadmap.
What we look at
- —Revenue — revenue mix, customer concentration, and growth opportunities.
- —Margins — gross margin, contribution margin, and profitability by product, customer, and channel.
- —Costs — COGS review, fixed and variable cost structure, and reduction opportunities.
- —Operating expenses — identifying excess, inefficiency, and optimization potential.
- —Working capital — cash cycle, cash position, inventory, receivables, and payables.
- —Processes — financial, accounting, purchasing, inventory, and production workflows.
- —KPIs — reviewing the key indicators used to track performance.
- —Governance — management structure, accountability, internal controls, and decision-making.
What we deliver
- —Key risks identified.
- —Financial and operational upside opportunities.
- —Estimated impact of each improvement.
- —An action plan prioritized by short-, medium-, and long-term horizon.
- —Recommendations for implementation and follow-up.
Outcomes we aim for
- ✓Fast identification of the business's main bottlenecks.
- ✓Higher profitability through prioritized action.
- ✓Better cash and working-capital management.
- ✓Less waste and inefficiency.
- ✓More reliable management information.
- ✓A solid basis for the board's strategic decisions.
Strategic Controllership
Building or transforming your controllership function to improve information quality and support decision-making.
Hands-on experience implementing controllership inside complex industrial environments, with ERPs.
What we deliver
- —Management close, with more speed, reliability, and standardization.
- —Management P&L, broken down by unit, product, channel, or result center.
- —Strategic financial and operational KPIs to track performance.
- —Variance analysis, comparing actual, budget, and forecast to drive corrective action.
- —Executive reporting, with management presentations for leadership and the board.
- —Management routines, including a close calendar, performance meetings, and goal tracking.
- —Information governance, with standardized processes and clear ownership.
Outcomes we aim for
- ✓Faster, data-driven decisions.
- ✓More reliable management information.
- ✓A shorter monthly close.
- ✓Visibility into margin, cost, and profitability.
- ✓Tighter integration between finance, accounting, production, and leadership.
- ✓A culture of management by indicators.
Governance & Management
Growth with organization, control, and predictability.
Management that relies less on improvisation and more on process and indicators.
What we deliver
- —Mapping and standardizing processes, removing bottlenecks and improving efficiency.
- —Developing internal policies fit to the company's reality and size.
- —Clearly defined roles and responsibilities, reducing overlap and communication gaps.
- —Management rituals, such as periodic review and decision-making meetings.
- —Management indicators connecting goals, performance, and accountability.
- —Organizing operational governance, strengthening internal controls and approval flows.
- —Cross-team integration, aligning finance, accounting, purchasing, inventory, and operations.
- —A management calendar, with close routines, goal tracking, and periodic reviews.
Outcomes we aim for
- ✓More organized, efficient processes.
- ✓Clearer accountability and decision-making.
- ✓Less rework and fewer operational failures.
- ✓Better tracking of company goals.
- ✓Stronger integration across departments.
- ✓A more professional management, ready to grow.
Cost Management
Today
A clear understanding of where money is being spent, and where the real efficiency gains are.
With NERIAH
We build costing models that show exactly where resources are being consumed, so waste can be eliminated and contribution margin increased.
We implement the process inside the company and connect the ERP to production reality.
What we deliver
- —Structuring industrial cost by cost center, product, and process.
- —Reviewing COGS and validating the criteria used to allocate it.
- —Implementing or reviewing costing methods (absorption, variable, and management).
- —Strategic pricing, weighing cost, market, and target margin.
- —Profitability analysis by product, customer, channel, and business line.
- —Calculating cost by product and process, exposing operational bottlenecks.
- —Mapping waste — production losses, rework, and excess inventory.
- —Reconciling physical and book inventory, improving the reliability of the numbers.
- —Building management indicators for ongoing cost tracking.
Outcomes we aim for
- ✓Lower operating cost without compromising quality.
- ✓Higher contribution margin.
- ✓More competitive, more profitable pricing.
- ✓More accurate COGS and management close.
- ✓Effective control over inventory and production processes.
- ✓Reliable information for the board's strategic decisions.
Budget Planning
Budget planning lets a company stop just tracking past results and start anticipating future decisions. We build a complete process for budgeting, forecasting, and management follow-up, giving you financial predictability and support for strategic decisions.
A process used by high-performing companies, adapted to the reality of mid-sized businesses and industrial operations.
What we deliver
- —An annual budget aligned with the company's strategic goals.
- —Periodic forecasts, updating projections as the business evolves.
- —Budget-vs-actual analysis, comparing results to plan with a decision-making focus.
- —Scenario building, including conservative, base, and expansion cases.
- —Variance analysis, identifying root causes and defining action plans.
- —Integrated financial planning, connecting the P&L, cash flow, and investments.
- —Projected results, margin, EBITDA, and cash generation.
- —Sensitivity simulations, testing the impact of cost, price, volume, and investment changes.
- —A budget management calendar, with tracking and review routines.
Outcomes we aim for
- ✓Greater financial predictability.
- ✓Decisions based on reliable projections.
- ✓Effective control over budget variances.
- ✓Better cash and investment management.
- ✓Alignment between financial and operational goals.
- ✓Continuous tracking of company performance.
KPIs & Business Intelligence
Today
Turning data into clear, actionable executive information.
With NERIAH
We review the current indicator structure, identify gaps, and propose new KPIs aligned with the business strategy — turning operational and financial data into clear, actionable executive information.
Every indicator has a clear purpose — we don't build dashboards indiscriminately.
What we deliver
- —A diagnosis of current indicators, assessing relevance, reliability, and tracking frequency.
- —Reviewing and improving existing KPIs, cutting low-value metrics and sharpening the strategic ones.
- —Proposing new indicators, aligned with leadership's objectives and each area's needs.
- —Building executive dashboards with clear, objective performance information.
- —Financial indicators, such as EBITDA, margin, cash generation, liquidity, and working capital.
- —Operational indicators, including productivity, inventory, purchasing, production, and efficiency.
- —Cost and profitability indicators, by product, customer, channel, and business unit.
- —Standardizing tracking routines, with clear owners, frequency, and targets.
Outcomes we aim for
- ✓Indicators aligned with company strategy.
- ✓Higher-quality, more reliable management information.
- ✓Fewer low-value reports.
- ✓Visibility into what drives profit, cash, and productivity.
- ✓More efficient tracking of leadership's goals.
- ✓Faster decisions, based on consistent data.
Feasibility & Valuation
Today
Supporting investment, expansion, and growth decisions.
With NERIAH
We turn investment decisions into solid, strategic analysis.
Valuation as a tool to support growth, succession, and investment decisions.
What we deliver
- —Economic-financial feasibility studies, for new investments, expansion, and new-site launches.
- —Business cases, structuring assumptions, risks, investment, and expected return.
- —Financial modeling, with integrated projections of results, cash flow, and indicators.
- —Projected cash flow, assessing a project's financial capacity over time.
- —Scenario building, including conservative, base, and expansion cases.
- —Sensitivity analysis, simulating the impact of cost, price, volume, and investment changes.
- —Company valuation, using methods suited to the purpose of the analysis, such as Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and market multiples.
- —Return indicators, such as Payback, NPV (Net Present Value), and IRR (Internal Rate of Return), to support investment decisions.
Outcomes we aim for
- ✓Greater confidence in investment decisions.
- ✓Lower financial risk on projects.
- ✓Visibility into return, cash generation, and profitability.
- ✓Prioritizing the investments with the highest potential value.
- ✓More consistent planning for expansion and growth.
- ✓Executive support for negotiations, fundraising, and strategic presentations.
Next step
Not sure where to start?
A business diagnosis is the ideal starting point: together, we'll identify the highest-impact opportunities for your business.
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