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FP&A Best Practices Implementation

FP&A Best Practices Implementation

FP&A best practices are in our bones. But we don't just hand you a list of "best practices." We help you apply them uniquely to your business to drive value creation.

Our experts streamline people, processes, and technologies to build your best-in-class FP&A function and drive success in a fast-paced PE-backed environment. With better reporting, planning, and analytics, your team is empowered to spend less time producing reports and more time analyzing them—paving the way for better business decisions and long-term value creation.
PAIN POINT

No defined strategy or roadmap for your FP&A function, with one-off initiatives taking place sporadically.

What Accordion brings:
Evaluate finance function for growth opportunities.
Assess your finance function to identify and outline both quick wins and long-term investment areas.
Forge strategic cross-functional partnerships.
Establish meaningful partnerships across functions and operations: aligning sales, revenue, supply chain management, marketing, etc. with your goals.
Optimize resource allocation.
Ensure optimized time/resource allocation by creating models that measure decision-making vs. cost.
PAIN POINT

Time-consuming and unstandardized manual FP&A processes, with data locked away in disparate systems.

What Accordion brings:
Create single source of truth.
Reconcile and consolidate data enterprise-wide to create a single source of truth.
Simplify month-end close.
Streamline and accelerate month-end close.
Implement technology for better decision-making.
Build and implement more effective technology-based solutions for reporting, analyzing, and forecasting.
PAIN POINT

Struggle to meet the requirements for the FP&A organization as the business scales.

What Accordion brings:
Establish and align FP&A model.
Establish FP&A operating model and refine finance function roles and responsibilities to align with business objectives.
Define standards for high-value talent.
Pinpoint criteria for required skills and qualifications to attract high-value resources.
Step in as FP&A leaders.
Provide hands-on FP&A leadership and support where required to support the team during critical phases.
We consistently create value for the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms and their portfolio companies.
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We consistently create value for the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms and their portfolio companies.
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Meet a few
of our experts.

Rajan Raval
Rajan Raval
Managing Director

Rajan is a Managing Director with over a decade of experience in the Office of the CFO, Private Equity, and Investment Banking spaces.

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Patrick Hayward
Patrick Hayward
Executive Director

Patrick is an Executive Director at Accordion with 30 years of finance experience focused on FP&A, M&A, and Strategic Planning.

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Zach Chandis
Zach Chandis
Managing Director

Zach is a Managing Director with over 15 years of advisory, financial, and operational experience with companies across a range of industries including transportation, pharmaceuticals, software, technology, industrials, energy, construction & manufacturing, business services, consumer, telecom, and media. Zach is differentiated by his experience in several areas of finance: private equity, special situations, investment banking,...

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