Corporates
zeb/’s strength lies specifically in providing integral end-to-end advice from strategy development and concept design to implementation, also with regard to IT support. zeb/’s consultancy services stand out by their combination of functional expertise with IT know-how. Consulting projects primarily relate to the financial department of the company and the interfaces between companies, banks and capital markets. Being a specialised player, zeb/ mainly advises the finance service and constructively inputs its financial expertise into your company through specialised teams. Our consulting covers the core areas of the corporate finance function: Funding, CFO organisation, controlling and reporting/information.
Examples of projects that have already been implemented and completed successfully in the corporate field highlight zeb/’s thematic competence:
- Review of business strategies
- Organisational re-orientation of the CFO area
- Conceptual design for value-based management
- Optimisation of the funding mix
- Support in financial restructuring
- Management of interest rate and foreign currency risks
- Design of reporting on treasury performance
- Implementation of interest rate book management
- Development of a reporting platform for controlling
- Data warehouse implementation
Funding
Ensuring solvency and investment capacity at all times is one of the core functions of corporate management. Here, both the funding mix and funding costs play a significant role. Based on its comprehensive financial expertise, zeb/ supports you in defining a funding strategy that matches your business model and risk policy as well as in designing the funding structure. To ensure successful implementation, we assist our clients throughout all project phases, for example, in the rating process and meetings with bank representatives.
CFO organisation
Appropriate organisational structures, effective workflows and the deployment of state-of-the-art control tools for fulfilling the finance function in the company ensure profitability. In addition, they open up the required leeway in competition. zeb/ supports its client in establishing the appropriate structures, in designing the required functions and processes as well as in planning the allocation of the necessary resources in line with actual needs. zeb/’s comprehensive experience in managing change processes in organisations also minimises frictional losses when historically developed structures need to be adapted.
Management
The integrated consideration of all value drivers is at the heart of state-of-the-art management concepts. Methods, instruments and processes defined in the fields of financial controlling, risk management and treasury are the prerequisite for creating an integrated view. Drawing on its extensive expertise in diverse management fields, zeb/ offers customised concepts and supports its clients up to the concepts’ successful implementation.
Reporting/information
Providing management-oriented information is the key to efficient decision-making processes and, thus, the basis of effective corporate management. Addressee-specific reporting lays the foundation and builds on harmonised integrated data collections and powerful applications for supplying, refining, processing and distributing information required for functional, targeted reports. zeb/ supports its clients not only in concept design, but especially in setting up powerful data warehouse structures and in implementing web-based reporting platforms for meeting the function-specific information requirements of different recipients.