Finance projects
I am available to support businesses of all sizes in tackling the day-to-day practical and commercial requirements of their finance function.
With my extensive experience, and as a Fellow of the ICAEW, I have a broad skill-set to deliver immediate value. This can range from tackling specific problems with information and delivering swift solutions, improving and developing MI tools, through to supporting on business plans and dealing with lenders and key stakeholders.
With over 15 years' experience working in crisis situations and insolvency, I can also work with businesses in difficult circumstances to provide support with tools, a calm approach and stakeholder management.
I also have a experience in learning and can assist with content creation and strategy development.
My focus as an accountant is leveraging my commercial skills to make tangible and rapid improvements, or fix issues, rather than being engaged to deliver statutory requirements.
Upbeat Consulting Limited is registered as an accountancy practice with the ICAEW - registration number C011005320.
Andrew Barber is entitled to engage in public practice as a Chartered Accountant by the ICAEW.
A range of services available to deliver real value
Process reviews
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Cost effective third-party review of existing finance processes, offering recommendations for improvement.
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Support in the design and implementation of new solutions.
Forecasts
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Help in producing new forecasts, creating robust assumptions to stand up to challenge by internal and external stakeholders.
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Review and challenge of existing plans and budgets
Models
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Creation of financial models from scratch to enhance management information and day-to-day management.
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Review and challenge of existing models. Complete revisions and improvements where required.
Cash management and support
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Assisting with cash flow challenges to seek to stabilise businesses in difficult circumstances, able to quickly take the lead on liaising with stakeholders to manage through issues as required.
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Quickly develop, implement or improve existing cash flow tools to navigate periods of stress in the working capital cycle.
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Manage debt collections and consider other solutions to improve working capital.
Stakeholder management and crisis support
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Ability to quickly identify and engage with all key internal and external stakeholders to a situation in order to deliver a restructuring or turnaround strategy.
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Wide ranging network to bring in additional support resources where required in a crisis situation.
Tackle your projects
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Ability to rapidly understand a business and assist with ad hoc projects that have never reached the top of "to do" lists, or have not been tackled due to resource constraints.
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Short-term and long-term support available; recurring assistance also not an issue.
Business plans and funding
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Help in creating business plans and prospectuses for investors and / or lenders.
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Support in seeking new finance.
Working capital and credit control
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Support in managing cash and working capital day-to-day in more stable circumstances.
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Assistance with credit control, both debt collection and management of suppliers.
Learning and development
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Design and delivery of learning content for teams - ranging from online bitesize learning to full facilitated courses and team events / away days..
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Content can include finance & accounting training, restructuring or wider soft-skills such as time management.
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Support on implementing professional qualification programmes, working with institutes and training providers.
