Interim Management & Financial Consulting/Advisory

INTERIM
MANAGEMENT
AND FINANCIAL
ADVISORY
“Turning challenges into positive outcomes”
www.your-interim-finance-manager.ch

My Value Proposition
End-to-end project delivery and on-demand financial advisory
As a professional Interim Manager I help
international companies, small businesses,
non-profit organizations, professional
investors and entrepreneurs with special
business finance projects, to provide on-
demand financial advisory or to cover for a
critical resource gap in their teams. I focus on
project delivery and implementation and bring
multi-functional capabilities and skills.

My Core Value Proposition
End-to-end project delivery and on-demand financial advisory
TAILORED COLLABORATION ON YOUR PROJECT
My approach is tailored and collaborative rather than prescriptive and
proprietary as in traditional consulting. I engage for project duration and
offer my clients flexibility to re-engage me, at any time. I am a freelancer,
and I don’t come on your payroll. I cost a fraction of BIG-4.

Why an Interim Manager?
 Hiring an Interim Manager
is a powerful alternative to
traditional recruitment and
consultancy, for both line
manager and project
manager positions, and
can generate significant
business advantage.
 It is uneconomic for most
companies to size their
workforce to cover every
peak in business activity.
An Interim Manager can
increase resource
bandwidth and relieves
pressures faced at senior
levels.
 An Interim Manager is
somebody who has done
the job you are asking
them to do before and is
very experienced for the
task in question . In this
sense, he is a “safe pair
of hands”.
Powerful alternative to traditional recruitment and consulting

How Do You Benefit?
I am independent
and apolitical. The
no. 1 reason I am
on the project is to
deliver what we
agreed
I don’t exit until
project has
finished. I do
handover before
the final sound of
the whistle. I can
even recruit my
successor.
I am quickly available
and immensely
flexible, you can
switch my involvement
on or off as you like
and when you like
I will produce
benefits above and
beyond your
expectations. I can
act as coach and
mentor, create and
develop teams
strengthen the team
relations.
An external and independent senior resource helping your project succeed

How Do I Work?
The aim of our first
meeting is to explore
the challenge and
assess if I can be of
value
Here we agree
ultimate goals and
outline key activities
and project stages
The work is wrapped
up, knowledge
handed-over &
project transition is
completed
Working side-by-side
with you we engage
in further dialogue to
fully define the
problem and start
scoping the project.
Here the real work
begins, I get involved
with your organization
and work relentlessly
towards agreed goals.
Entry Dialogue Goals Engage Finish
My approach is systematic and disciplined, driven by YOUR needs

My Clients
From large mutlinationals to small startups and NGOs

Interim finance manager and freelance consultant, based in Switzerland
About Me
A highly-skilled, multilingual, culturally-
aware and experienced business
professional with nearly 20 years of
international career. Since 5 years
intervening as a freelance consultant
across Switzerland and abroad, helping
companies with strategic and operational
business finance, project management,
business transformation and consulting in
various industries and sectors. To find out
more about me download My BIO now.
Tomasz Meissner
MBA, ACCA, CAPM

How To Contact Me?
Call me for a non-binding consultation about your business needs
Tomasz Meissner
Phone: +41 (0)79 515 0019
Email: tomaszmeissner@hotmail.com
Address: Rue des sept Fontaines 23
CH-1188 Gimel
Switzerland

Appendix: My Solutions

My Solutions: Interim CFO for Professional Investors
Private equity & venture capital look to maximize business valuations
 Low effectiveness of existing teams
 Challenges achieving required ROI
 Inadequate risk management (e.g. F/X risk, liquidity, credit)
 Ineffective search for investment/business expansion opportunities
 Putting in place structures and systems to permit scaling
 Aligning management with shareholder agendas
 Rapid performance improvement (e.g. in supply chain)
 Strained or lacking communication within the organization
I take on the CFO role to improve performance in
portfolio companies you invest in, effectively
manage change following the acquisition and help
prepare for the exit or turnaround. As your interim
CFO I can address the following challenges:

My Solutions: Interim CFO for Start-Ups
Start-ups look for accelerated growth (markets + clients = revenue)
Assembling the capabilities (people, financing, and
technology) for a new business or initiative is not
easy. As your interim CFO I can not only manage
your day-to-day finance but more importantly I can
help your start-up strategy with the following:
 Set the financial tone to keeping an eye on the upward valuation
 Create an early culture of accountability and asset preservation
 Provide high quality financial analysis and advice to decision-makers
 Link the strategy of the start-up to its operating and capital budget
 Model your business performance in response to specific strategies
 Measure the actual financial operation and health of the business
 Help you determine well-reasoned valuation of your start-up
 Prepare quality, focused and informative presentation to the Board

My Solutions: Interim CFO in Business Turn-Arounds
Struggling businesses need bold decisions and fresh energy
Saving a business in financial trouble, re-
energizing demoralized employees, making
effective decisions under time pressure, going
deep enough with painful cuts. This is not easy,
and as your CFO I can help with:
 Closing the cash leaks (e.g. cutting discretionary spend)
 Modelling out the business performance when disaster strikes
 Identifying business downside risks and develop mitigation strategies
 Monitoring at all times compliance with insolvency rules
 Protecting creditors but also shareholders and the management team
 Managing transparent and constructive relations with lenders
 Supporting new business strategy development for business survival

My Solutions: Business Integrations Projects
Realizing synergies In busines acquisition needs a disciplined approach
The success of every business integration depends
critically on the ability to effectively deliver
business insights, ensure compliance & controls,
and create operational efficiencies envisaged by
the investor. I can help to:
 Integrate business operations and systems
 Coordinate efficient communication across functions
 Put together the right team in place to face the challenges of the
integration
 Work relentlessly to align strategy, processes, organizational
structure, roles and responsibilities, information systems, financial
budgets, forecasts, P&Ls and reporting
 Read more about my work in M&A and Business Integrations

My Solutions: Business Process Improvement Projects
Every business must run smoothly, this is easier said than done
My BPI services focus on streamlining processes,
improving access to information, and eliminating
process waste which improves productivity,
decision making, and ultimately saves money and
resources.
 I can help your organization and teams through the application of a
simple yet rigorous BPI technique (Kaizen Workshops)
 In a matter of weeks you can realize enormous and almost instant
benefits to your organization, including cost savings, increase of
employee engagement, less variability in the business, and more
 I stay on-board from the beginning to the end, to ensure seamless
BPI execution
 Read my blog-post 10 Simple Guidelines To Fix Your Processes

My Solutions: Project Management & Support
Disciplined and structured approach is decisive to the success of a project
The typical project challenges include undefined
goals, changes to project scope, inadequate skills
on the project, lack of accountability or improper
risk management. As a certified PM I can support
your project team to:
 Manage end-to-end small-sized projects such as functional
transformations (outsourcing, restructuring, rationalization)
 Support specific technical aspects of large global projects such as in
new ERP roll-outs (process mapping, project finance, stakeholder
management)

My Solutions: Supply Chain Optimization
Supply chains still often struggle with risks and operational inefficienices
Successful businesses, small and big, must show
excellence in how they procure goods and
services, and this includes cost leadership,
responsible sourcing, operational efficiency among
other things. I can help your SCM function with:
 A deep-dive into your direct and indirect spend, to identify cost-out
opportunities (through lower vendor prices), supplier base
optimization, inventory levels reduction, and more…
 Purchase-to-pay process optimization, to generate a smooth, lean
and controlled flow of activities from requisition through supplier
payment
 Financial risk mitigation, by rolling out the best-in-class vendor
financial appraisal processes and tools for your SCM function

My Solutions: Finance for Non-Finance Professionals
Accounting is the language of business, all staff should be familiar with it
Accounting is the language of business and all
managers, regardless of their seniority, should be
financially literate in order to be effective in their
job. I can provide the following support:
 One-on-one training and/or on-going coaching for business
executives, tailored to the individual needs of the person
 On-site group training (1-2 days) for non-finance mid-level managers
and staff (e.g. commercial functions, procurement, etc)

My Solutions: Filling a Crtitical Resource Gap
Unexpected departure of one critical employee can lead to a crisis!
Unexpected departure of one critical employee can
be very painful, with no immediate replacement
appointed. It is during such emergency that I can
step in and let you benefit from the following:
 Quick and effective succession, on interim basis
 Relieving the pressure while you’re looking for a permanent hire
 Gaining the time until the temporary leaver is back
 Ensure your processes continue without disruption
 Ensure your team stays motivated and on board with you
 Get and outsider’s perspectives on your finance function, coach your
team, and point out the obvious solutions to apparently unsolvable
problems.

My Solutions: On-Demand Financial Advisory
Every business must run smoothly, this is easier said than done
My ad-hoc advisory can help companies identify
opportunities and resolve pain-points in their
financial performance and organization. I can come
in for a day or for a week, to help you generate
positive outcomes for your business, such as:
 Health-check of your overall business performance
 Due diligence or benchmarking study
 Finance and accounting function reviews and transformation
 Business modelling for better investments or to adapt strategy
 Internal controls review, compliance and governance issues
 Internal audits, internal controls reviews and documentation

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