Global Treasury Advisory Services

Treasury Strategy:

In a complex, interconnected financial world, treasury must take on an increasingly strategic role and establish itself as a value-adding business partner to the CFO. An effective and efficient organisational strategy and structure for the treasury function forms the basis for generating sustainable value through the creation of operational excellence and the realisation of identified savings potential. The strategic positioning of the treasury is crucial to ensuring the future viability of the finance function.

Our experts support you in reevaluating and optimising your existing strategies, structures, processes, and technologies.

Our consulting services include:

• Design and implementation of treasury strategies- Strategic (re)positioning within the framework of our innovative and interactive Treasury Transition Lab

Treasury Transformation

Globally networked value and supply chains, a multitude of innovative technologies, new requirements profiles in the wake of digitalisation, and the centralisation of group-wide treasury processes are key drivers for positioning treasury for the future and developing it further. Our experts support you in optimising technical, procedural, and organisational solutions for your treasury function. Design and implementation of treasury strategies, including:

• Design and implementation of a future-proof operating and governance model (“target operating model”)- Optimisation of the process landscape
• Assessment of the current situation for the further development of the treasury function as part of our treasury health check

Treasury Operate

We support treasurers with our Treasury Operate Services, enabling them to respond to changes in a timely and flexible manner. Against this backdrop, we offer you customised solutions for outsourcing treasury processes based on our extensive portfolio of consulting services and the right combination of technical expertise, technology, and transformation know-how.

Our treasury technology consulting services include analysing, selecting, and providing the right mix of treasury technology solutions to future-proof your system landscape, optimising processes, and helping treasury maximise the value of its technology investments. Starting with a compact health check of the most essential aspects and building blocks of the treasury IT landscape and based on our extensive expertise in treasury transformation, we lay the foundation for our clients' future-oriented treasury. We see ourselves as an end-to-end consulting firm that actively supports our clients in all areas of treasury and treasury technology.

We offer you the right mix of analysis, selection, and provision to identify and implement optimal treasury system combinations.

We support you in transforming your system landscape, optimising processes, and maximising the value of your investment. We always take into account developments in the areas of API and RPA, (generative) AI, and blockchain for value-generating use in treasury. 

Our technology experts support you with the following issues, among others:

• Treasury Technology Health Check
• Selection of a treasury management system (TMS.Select)
• Technical and specialist advice and/or support with the introduction of TMS systems

The S/4HANA transformation offers treasury departments the opportunity to optimise their processes. We support you in migrating from SAP Treasury or redesigning other systems. Every project is unique, so we tailor our proven project methodology to your needs. Our range of services includes consulting, implementation, and customised solutions through to operational support.

External shocks such as the coronavirus pandemic or the energy crisis, as well as a dynamic interest rate environment and rising default risks, clearly demonstrate the central importance of cash and liquidity management for companies. A high degree of transparency and efficiency for the entire company through the setup of a centralised, state-of-the-art in-house banking function with a complete view of group-wide cash holdings is a basic prerequisite for this. This is the basis for valid liquidity forecasting and planning, as well as efficient, secure, and largely automated payment transactions for modern and effective cash management. 

Our services include:

• The (further) development of company-specific processes and systems for liquidity planning, including the use of AI and generative AI.- The design and implementation of (international) cash pool structures
• Consulting on the selection of central solutions for bank connectivity (e.g., SWIFT solutions, EBICS, or host-to-host)
• The optimisation of group-wide payment transactions via in-house banking solutions, payments-on-behalf, collection-on-behalf, virtual accounts, etc. 
• Scenario analysis for the simulation of cash scenarios, taking into account company-specific parameters analogous to bank stress testing

Our expertise in financial risk management begins with the introduction, analysis, and optimization of the end-to-end process in financial risk management, from the emergence, identification, and measurement of risks to hedging, reporting, and accounting, with a focus on transparency, automation, and the minimization of unexplained effects on results. 
We would be happy to advise you on the following, among other things:

• Group-wide analysis of exposure positions, their aggregation and measurement 
• Development of dynamic hedging strategies and models
• Establishment of modern treasury reporting for ongoing control of group-wide risks

With our expertise in accounting issues (in accordance with IFRS 9, IFRS 7, and OR) and procedural and organisational best practices, we provide various consulting and auditing services in the context of consolidated and annual financial statements, as well as internal audits and project-related audits in accordance with IDW PS 850 for the introduction or upgrade of your TMS. We support you in the transition of hedge accounting from IAS 39 to IFRS 9 and offer guidance through all phases, from feasibility analysis to technical implementation. In addition, we prepare financial statements for first-time adopters of IFRS, offer financial mathematical valuations and accounting instructions for complex accounting issues under IFRS 9 and IAS 32. Our services also include the preparation of notes disclosures in accordance with IFRS 7, IFRS 9, and IFRS 13, as well as the implementation of individual technical solutions to simplify the notes process.

The regulatory requirements relevant to treasury and finance functions (including FinfraG, FINMAG, FIDLEG, and other) are subject to regular adjustments due to changing economic conditions. In addition to conducting legally required audits, our services in the area of treasury regulation also include support in integrating national and international regulatory requirements into your operational business processes.