How well is your finance function actually supporting the business?


A short, honest read across the four things every finance leader is accountable for. Eight questions, about five minutes and a straight answer on where your foundations are strong and where they are creating risk.

The four foundations
01
Growth

Whether leaders can trace and influence the numbers behind performance.

02
Integrity

Whether the business works from one version of the truth it trusts.

03
Efficiency

Whether finance spends its time on insight or on reconciling data.

04
Compliance and risk

Whether cash, risk and reporting are ready when they are needed.

Most finance leaders already sense where things are strained. The reporting that takes too long, the forecast that is hard to pull together, the numbers the business quietly does not trust. What is harder to see is the pattern underneath and whether those strains are about to undermine the next big thing you are asked to deliver.

Answer honestly. A lower score usually means your team is working hard to compensate, not that you are doing a bad job.

Neil Alderson
Built by Neil Alderson
Programme and transformation director, working across finance, operations and data to make finance functions ready for what comes next.
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Where to go next

This short read gives you the shape. The full Finance Operating Impact Diagnostic goes deeper, scored not just by you but by your finance team and the business leaders who rely on you, which is where the most useful gaps tend to show up.

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