Financial decisions and analysis

The Financial Decisions and Analysis (FD&A) team delivers additional insight for decision making. We use our people's range of industry experiences with a commercial mindset and deep technical skills to produce rapid, pragmatic and clear outcomes for our clients. Services include:

Supporting the CFO office - across its critical, value-adding activities for example:

  • providing penetrative, timely and easy to use management and board reporting;
  • improving cash performance through cash and working capital management and
  • aligning forecasts to the strategic plan by robust and accountable budgeting, planning and forecasting

Deal Modelling - building confidence for all parties to the transaction:

  • improving clarity and transparency for buy-side investors and finance providers
  • adding resilient credibility to the business growth story for sellers
  • supporting creditor and bank negotiations with scenario and sensitivity analysis and returns evaluation
  • reviewing deal model structure and integrity to increase certainty

Decision Support – enabling focused, competitive, judgements based on salient quantitative and qualitative data

  • improved analytics for investment appraisal
  • guiding profitable pricing decisions based on likely customer and competitor behaviour, impact on costs to serve, margins and volume
  • increasing customer and product profitability by improving visibility of performance
  • evaluation of strategic options through a robust model for weighing evidence

What our clients say:

What I really like about your team is that you are pragmatic and hands-on. I enjoy working with you

CFO at PE-backed, Manufacturing Company

I will never do a deal without them as a core part of the team

Partner, Global PE House

One of the best models I have seen... Very pragmatic and great interpersonal skills... They have done a great job. I am very happy

CFO and PE-backed, Fashion Retailer

Contact us

Brendan O'Driscoll

Brendan O'Driscoll

Deal Analytics Leader, Transaction Services, PwC United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0) 7753 928047

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