Finance
We offer finance and accountancy consultancy and support services to assist social landlords, the wider public sector including local authorities, voluntary organisations and commercial organisations to achieve their objectives. Of course we employ accountants to do this, but their skills are much wider than simply working with the numbers - empathy with your business environment, high level communication and presentation skills, combined with commercial acumen are what sets us apart from more traditional practices in this arena.
Our services in this area include:
Business planning and value for money
- Reviewing, revising and updating business plans
- Developing new business plans
- Monitoring business plans, including bank lending monitoring
- Producing budgets, management accounts and statutory accounts
- Carrying out Value for Money assessments on services to identify savings - often on a ‘share of the savings' basis
- Providing support to organisations to deliver savings plans
Option and investment appraisal
- Reviewing sheltered and supported housing provision, assessing the options for future provision including re-modeling where required.
- Assessing the investment options for high rise and other non-traditional housing types
- Assessing service delivery options, including evaluation of ‘Make or Buy' scenarios
- Financial modeling and appraisal of capital investment including building development
HRA and RSL Finance
- Developing and implementing financial management systems
- Reviewing and revising service budgets
- HRA finance, including business planning, financial modeling, subsidy and capital financing
- Developing bespoke Prudential Borrowing models to support housing development
- Providing interim financial management
- Providing training and advice on housing finance matters
Service reviews and improvement
- Carrying out service reviews of finance services, providing detailed assessment reports with continuous improvement recommendations
- Benchmarking and evaluating the performance of finance functions
- Project managing service improvements
- Carrying out skills audits
- Implementing organisational change including recruitment and training
- Mentoring managers and staff
