Organisations that desire fast growth also have to deal with challenges. In their endeavour, they must:
- Ensure processes are scalable to support the growth. They must mitigate related risks, and move forward seamlessly;
- Implement standardised leading practices;
- Identify potential revenue & margin enhancement areas and implement quick solutions;
- Ensure expenses (direct and indirect) are accurately and optimally incurred, accounted and reported;
- Reduce process-time within each silo and during hand-offs in the organization, thus improving efficiency and effectiveness of business activities;
- Ensure internal controls in data-heavy, high risk and dynamic environment;
- Articulate roles and responsibilities, know which KPIs to monitor?
- Move from ‘people-dependent’ to ‘process & technology’;
- Ensure availability of real-time information visuals for decision making; and
- Optimally centralize / decentralize authority and empowerment.
O&B works with its clients and provides seamless support in building their process frameworks that enable Growth, Agility, Scalability, Control, Accountability and Consistency. The organization, thus achieves:
- Reduced span of top management time on operational issues;
- Maker-Checker-Approver Model infused for key activities. Robust approval mechanism considering the nature of activity;
- Control over open items and reconciliations to ensure completeness and timeliness of accounting;
- Regularization processes documented for exceptions undertaken given business exigencies;
- Established responsibility and accountability across horizontal and vertical silos;
- MIS formats developed for monitoring and review of key financial / operating / process efficiency parameters;
- Segregation of accounting and review function;
- Streamlining the flow of work amongst various stages; and
- Continuous tracking of funds or materials usage and accountability.