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MANAGEMENT ADVISORY
Advisory works with the world’s leading organizations to create and protect the sustainable value of their business.
AMY CONSULTANCY Advisory professionals work with you to cut through the complexity of today’s rapidly changing marketplace. We leverage the knowledge and skills across our global network of firms to develop practical recommendations designed to help you work smarter, grow faster and compete stronger.
We are trusted advisors to the world’s organizations. They choose us because we are known for our talented people, technical expertise, deep industry insights and our ability to get the job done.
CONTRACT COMPLIANCE SERVICES
AMY CONSULTING’s CCS professionals are experienced in serving a variety of our firms’ clients in a wide range of industries in areas such as royalties, licensing, distribution agreements, advertising, digital content and more. As a result, we understand the complexities and nuances of a range of business contracts, processes and procedures and have been able to help companies recover revenue misstated in self-reporting statements while maintaining and improving relationships with their business partners.
Our services are as follows:
⦁ Royalty Compliance — aims to recover fees, help strengthen licensing relationships and identify opportunities for mitigating risk.
⦁ Software End-User License Review — monitors license compliance for software vendors, leading to increased current and future licensing and maintenance revenue.
⦁ Vendor Contracts — advises on management of vendor relationships.
⦁ Ad Agency Contract Compliance — aims to identify significant cost recoveries or other improvement opportunities.
⦁ Reseller and Distributor Review — assists with the enforcement of contracts with channel partners.
⦁ Digital Distribution — assists digital content owners in assessing the completeness and accuracy of self-reporting of content distribution.
⦁ Software Asset management (SAM) — can include a review of people, process and technology areas against industry standards.
⦁ Intellectual Property (IP) Audit — assistance in assessing and optimizing processes of the IP governance throughout different stages of the IP lifecycle.
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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
The finance function needs to be aligned to the business strategy, and provide financial analysis and insight to support corporate decision making, while also meeting legal and regulatory requirements as a given. With a global network of professionals, Financial Management is able to bring the right people, with the right skills, to the right place at the right time to assist helping organizations to become leaders in finance. Aimed at helping to maximize the finance function’s performance and increase its value to the business, we provide a range of Financial Management services under our three service networks – Efficient finance operations, Effective decision support and Finance Strategy & Transformation.
Efficient Finance Operations
An efficient finance function helps identify and deliver specific improvements in order to unlock value and resources thus freeing up time for improved decision support activities. It is founded on a robust platform of integrated operational/transactional finance activities.
This service network includes the following offerings:
⦁ Quality Close & Integrating Reporting
⦁ Finance Process Optimization
⦁ Finance Function Benchmarking
⦁ Finance Shared Services & Outsourcing
Effective Decision Support
This service network helps clients deliver a fit-for-purpose financial planning and performance management framework in order to help the business to make better decisions.
It includes the following offerings:
⦁ Cash & Working Capital Management
⦁ Cost Management
⦁ Financial Information Management
⦁ Financial Performance Management
⦁ Planning Budgeting & Forecasting
Finance Strategy and Transformation
Finance Strategy and Transformation helps a client to define the role of finance in driving the strategic business imperatives. It helps the CFO to clearly articulate its Finance vision and strategy, analyze the performance of the finance function, and develop a future state operating model that is fit for purpose.
This involves a wide ranging review of the finance function, matching performance to business requirements and diagnosing areas for improvement across the finance landscape. It includes the following offerings:
⦁ Business strategy alignment
⦁ Finance business partnering
⦁ Finance function recovery
⦁ Finance integration & separation
⦁ Finance organization design
⦁ Finance target operating model
⦁ Finance transformational
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MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
Partnering with you to gain competitive advantage.
Are you putting in place the building blocks that will make your organization perform more effectively when the economy recovers? Successful organizations are using this time to transform their business, balancing the critical levers of cash flow — cost, investments and revenue to achieve sustainable business performance.
There are three key aspects to consider:
⦁ Obtain accurate information to drive business insight:
Any business today needs to have confidence in the data that’s used to report financial results, set future performance expectations, evaluate risk and understand customer interests. By creating standards, disciplines and governance around data that goes all the way down to the item level, and by using technology effectively to access it in real time, business leaders and managers can trust that the information they use to make decisions is as accurate and insightful as possible.
⦁ Navigate the complexity of business enterprise and make the needed structural changes:
Leaders so often turn to quick wins — swapping tap water for bottled water; eliminating non-essential travel and the like — with little regard for their efficacy, lasting impact or unintended consequences. Instead, go below the tip of the iceberg, navigating the complexity inherent in the business, to make needed changes to the business model that can have a lasting impact. Take advantage of technology that can enable the business to run more efficiently. Review the overall people strategy in order to meet future talent and skills requirements. Ensure your procurement process is actually adding value by saving time and costs, rather than creating fragmented purchasing and black holes of spend.
⦁ Focus on sustainable performance:
Find and retain the skills you need. Build disciplines and processes that allow you to be in control of the business. And understand how to harness risk to your advantage. Be bold. If not now, when will you make major changes that could transform the way that you operate? In the past there was perhaps too much focus on refinancing rather than re-engineering, now is the time to make considered and sustainable change.
Consider the organization as a single unit. It’s not about how to make HR or IT run more efficiently but how to make the business, as a whole, more efficient over the longer term. Stay the course, embed the right behaviors in your business and look to a more sustainable and profitable future.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]