Shift finance up a gear.

We work inside finance teams, on process, reporting, planning, and the data connecting them. Sometimes that means bringing in senior hands for a few months, sometimes it means rebuilding something that no longer holds. Usually it is both and always shoulder to shoulder with your own people.

What we do

Problems in finance rarely sit in one place.

Weak data makes reporting slow, slow reporting turns planning into guesswork, and a process that was never properly settled makes all three harder than they need to be.

So we work across all four, and usually from the data upwards.

Process excellence

Finance, day-to-day, that runs predictably, without workarounds and without depending on one person.

Reporting excellence

Consolidation, management and sustainability reporting you can defend.

Planning excellence

Budgets, forecasts and models the business uses for decisions.

Data excellence

One trusted set of numbers underneath all three.

We support your finance team, we do not replace it. We work inside your processes and your systems, alongside your people, and we aim to leave behind a finance function that continues running successfully, without us.

Who we work with

Company profile

Belgian and Central European companies (€20M–€500M revenue) structured as family-owned groups, PE-backed buy-and-build platforms, or subsidiaries of international corporations.

Who calls us

CFOs, finance directors, group controllers and financial controllers, usually when the team is one person short, one system behind, or one deadline away from a problem.

Where we work

On site in Belgium and remotely across Europe, in Dutch, French and English, and inside the statutory reality our clients actually work in, local GAAPs and IFRS conversion, statutory filings including the NBB, and groups running several entities and several currencies.

How we are built

A small senior team, in which the person who scopes your work stays with it from the first call to the hand-over. When we bring in more people, they work under the same person you met on day one.

Where we make the shift

Our objective is to bring structure, clarity and focus, to make finance teams feel in control and supported to move forward towards a positive outcome.

We connect people, processes, systems and the underlying data to help you shift a gear up.

Pressure -> Control

  • Our close has failed to scale, we are managing a higher volume of  entities with the same legacy timelines as three years ago.
  • Our reporting is vulnerable due to key-person dependency, results in process bottlenecks during annual leave.
  • The audit process lacks standardized documentation, resulting in the redundant, manual recreation of supporting schedules every year.

Plans -> Execution

  • The new platform went live eighteen months ago, but we continue to experience low user adoption, with 50% of the team still relying on manual workarounds.
  • Our strategic roadmap has stalled because repetitive month-end processing leaves the team with zero capacity for execution.
  • The project momentum keeps being paused for the day job, and the day job keeps winning.

Tools -> Adoption

  • You paid for a planning tool, but the process remains fragmented with part of the budget being siloed in offline spreadsheets.
  • The dashboard is beautiful and highly sophisticated, but lacks operational engagement, nobody opens it before the meeting.
  • The knowledge left with the implementation team, now every small change becomes a new project.

How we engage

We adapt our level of involvement to your context

We can onboard for a short-term reinforcement, repeatedly on peak moments, or structuraly. When we engage we are always pragmatic, we are always focused on realising progress that sticks and cooperate shoulder to shoulder with your own teams.

Engagement Options

Temporary support and backup

Typically two to five days a week, one or several months, and we can usually start within weeks.

Assessment & Roadmap

A fixed price diagnostic across two to four weeks, ending in a prioritised plan with effort estimates and indicative costs that is usable with or without us.

Implementation & Enablement

Typically three to nine months alongside your team, with a hand-over date agreed on the first day rather than the last.

Advisory & PMO Support

From half a day a week, providing steering, review and challenge without taking the work away from your team.

What the first two weeks look like

A 45-minute intro call

You describe the situation, and we tell you honestly whether it is something we should do, something you would be better off doing yourselves, or something for somebody else entirely.

In the first week

We look at the real problem, the actual close calendar, the actual consolidation file, the actual forecast model, rather than a questionnaire about them.

In the second week

You get a short written read-out about what is fragile, what is quick, what is structural, and what each would take. Two pages, not forty slides.

Then you decide

You can work with us, work with the plan on your own, or stop, and all three are perfectly good outcomes.

Start wherever you are

Not everybody who lands here is ready to engage, and that is fine.

Run it yourself

The twelve questions we work through in the first week of any engagement. Run the list over your own finance function, and most teams find two or three things they had stopped noticing.

Ask us one thing

Send a single question about your close, your consolidation or your planning, and we will come back in writing within a few days. Not a sales call, but an answer from somebody who has done it. 

Talk it through

Forty-five minutes, in which we will tell you honestly whether this is something we should do, something you would be better off doing yourselves, or something for somebody else entirely. [Book a call]

FAQ

How is finshift different from an interim manager or a staffing agency?A staffing agency finds you a person, and finishes on the day that person starts. We are engaged to fix something, and the person is how we do it. In practice that means we scope the work before we propose a solution, so that you are buying an outcome rather than a CV, and the person who scopes it stays with it. It also means our stated aim is to leave behind a finance function that runs without us, which is a different objective from filling a seat for as long as possible.

Do you work on site or remotely?Both, and the mix usually changes as the work goes on. The early weeks may better on site, because most of what matters, how the close really runs, who quietly fixes what, where the workarounds live ...is learned by sitting next to people rather than by reading documentation. Once the work is under way much of it can be done remotely, and we keep a regular day on site so that questions do not queue up.

What size of company do you usually work with?Most often companies between roughly €20m and €500m in revenue, with finance teams of three to thirty people. Large enough to have real complexity: several entities, an audit, a group reporting obligation and small enough that the finance team feels every one of them personally. That describes where we are most useful rather than a rule, and we have worked with smaller companies on a single specific problem and with larger groups on one part of their reporting.

What happens when the project ends?That is planned at the beginning rather than arranged at the end. Every engagement has a named person on your side who takes the work over, documentation written as we go rather than assembled in the final week, and a period in which your team runs the process while we are still reachable. We stay available for questions afterwards, and a fair number of clients come back a year later for the next thing, which is the better measure of whether it worked.

Impact we had

Accounts payable automation across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.
Reception, capture, coding and approval moved out of a fragmented chain and into a single flow. Manual handling became the exception rather than the rule, corrections now train the model instead of being repeated, and missing fields, mismatches and outliers surface as alerts rather than as questions at month-end.

The Cookware Company

In a growing SME the difficulty is adding structure without losing the way the company works. We strengthened the internal processes and rebuilt the reporting structure, so that responsibilities became clear, the month became predictable, and growth could be absorbed rather than improvised around. The entrepreneurial, pragmatic culture stayed exactly as it was.

Erve

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