{"id":38863,"date":"2026-04-07T16:11:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/?page_id=38863"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:05:24","slug":"finance-organisation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/en\/services\/finance-and-sga\/finance-organisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Introduction and challenges<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The CFO has four main roles:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to guarantee the financial sustainability of the enterprise (guardian of the temple)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to generate value for the shareholder (strategist)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to optimise the financial performance of operations (business activist)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to transform back offices, processes and systems (transformer)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To achieve these objectives, the CFO needs talented teams and must rely on an efficient organisation with robust and well-defined processes. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Over the years, as acquisitions progress, situations become more complex with several finance IT systems and misaligned processes and practices etc. In addition, there is often a strong expectation from group management to obtain more immediate, reliable forecasts and implement a cost-competitive administrative and financial function.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These challenges lead CFOs to review their organisation and launch transformation plans for their function. A finance transformation plan often addresses the following areas: improvement of finance IT systems and processes, development of centres of excellence to strengthen expertise, redesign of the management framework to improve the enterprise&#8217;s financial management, and development of the finance teams\u2019 skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The main challenge is establishing an effective finance function that meets the enterprise&#8217;s operational and strategic challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How we can help<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Argon &amp; Co works with the CFO to build the transformation plan for their function. Our experience in finance departments and our expertise in functional transformation provide real added value in developing the transformation plan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our methodology consists of three key steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carry out a diagnosis of the existing situation\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Focused interviews with function managers and &#8220;internal clients&#8221; (CEOs and operational departments) to identify strengths and areas for development<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Analysis of the maturity of the finance department&#8217;s practices in relation to internal and external best practices (e.g. organisation, processes, talents and skills)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Benchmarking of the finance function<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sharing of findings in the finance steerco and alignment on key challenges and axes of transformation<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Co-construct a vision and a trajectory for transformation underpinned by a business case<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Integration of transformation objectives into a unified group vision (destination point)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scenario scoring for the operating model evolution of the function and recommendations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Design of transformation roadmaps<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Evaluation of the business case whilst ensuring resource allocation is in line with the ambition<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Launch implementation by triggering quick wins<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sparking momentum through roll-out of quick wins<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coordination and launch<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of transformation sub-projects<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Formalisation of detailed design deliverables outlining the target operating model of the function (e. g. target organisation, RACIs)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Argon &amp; Co also supports the CFO in the implementation phases of transformation projects.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction and challenges The CFO has four main roles:\u00a0 to guarantee the financial sustainability of the enterprise (guardian of the temple) to generate value for the shareholder (strategist) to optimise the financial performance of operations (business activist) to transform back offices, processes and systems (transformer) To achieve these objectives, the CFO needs talented teams and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":37256,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"region":[],"class_list":["post-38863","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Finance Organisation Transformation Planning | Argon &amp; Co<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Argon &amp; Co&#039;s finance organisation experts work with CFOs to build transformation plans that enhance stability, value, performance and efficiency. 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