BUSINESS PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTFree up staff time, reduce costs and solve critical business problems

• Proven approaches: Our dedicated Business

Performance Improvement (BPI) team have a proven track

record helping clients solve critical business problems.

• Specifically tailored to your needs: We have

a range of established service offerings. Often the best

solutions require a tailored mix of these services.

• Relevant solutions: Our clients range from SMEs,

public sector and not for profit organisations to large

and mid-cap listed companies.

• Local expertise with global reach: Our Global

Consulting team means we can serve organisations in more

than 70 countries.

PROVEN APPROACHES, SPECIFICALLY TAILORED TO YOUR REQUIREMENTS…

Mazars BPI expertise helped to quickly streamline a number of our end-to-end processes and in particular produce notable improvements in the quality, simplicity and speed of our reporting. The changes have helped to enhance financial performance and control. They have also helped to free up staff time to focus more on value adding analysis and insight.

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Cost reductionSave money, generate value

• Streamline processes, rationalise organisation structures and improve reporting for sustainable cost reduction

• Build buy-in to the initiatives agreed through

effective communication and consultation

A RANGE OF VALUE-ADDED, INTEGRATED SERVICES TO RESPOND TO YOUR SPECIFIC CHALLENGES…Organisation designOrganise effectively, work as a team

• Identify core capabilities and evaluate alternative operating models against good practice design principles and leading practices

• Design and implement new structures and improve ways of working within teams and across department activities

Management informationMeasure performance, gain insight

• Develop Balanced Scorecard incorporating Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Design and build Management Information (MI) models quickly and efficiently

• Tailored approach providing ‘top down’ business analysis supported by ‘bottom up’ data extraction

• Automated reports linked to core systems with clear drill down reporting

• Low cost ‘out of the box’ Mazars MI for smaller clients

Process improvementSave time, improve results

• Structured analysis of business processes to identify weaknesses, inefficiencies, gaps and risks

• Develop and implement new processes with continuous improvement built-in

Project and change managementManage risk, successful delivery

• Rapid project assurance and health-checks

• Assist clients to manage all the ‘moving parts’ of a project and work through the challenges of introducing changes

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ProcurementBuy smart, manage risk

• Robust diagnostic focusing on procurement control, process and value for money

• Design and deliver practical solutions to improve the management and control of your procurement activities

RECENT CHALLENGES FACING OUR CLIENTS AND HOW WE HELPED…

Sustainable cost reductionTo free up capacity and reduce headcount this public sector client had to first identify and remove non-value adding activities and streamline the remaining activities. Our role was to identify inefficient practices and hand-offs between teams, and then to work closely with client staff to implement changes in a sustainable way. Our structured approach was important to secure buy-in to the initiatives.

Inefficient and high cost processFor an international provider in the travel and tourism sector, we undertook a supply chain project to streamline operational costs and simplify the process. We helped by applying our proven approach and working with the client team. This project successfully led to significant cost savings in fuel costs and a reduction of low value adding activities.

Unmanageable and costly organisation structureIn a tough trading environment, this retail sector client needed to design a new operating model to reduce staff costs together with improving service levels and performance of staff. Previous attempts had been unsuccessful and so our BPI team were asked to help. Our methodology and expertise helped to pragmatically develop and implement a new organisation design to meet the requirements of the organisation and embed good practice design principles.

Poor management information, reporting errors and delaysA long standing client of ours, a leading international player in the financial services sector, faced continual challenges to develop highly efficient MI to meet a wide variety of evolving business needs. Our approach was to leverage the client’s deep knowledge of their business combined with our expertise. We undertook multiple projects each with clear deliverables and tangible benefits. These benefits included significant reductions in the time required to produce the reports and an increase in the depth of analysis.

Need to better manage projects and changeAs a high profile in-sourcing initiative neared a key milestone, the project board at this power sector client required assurance that all was going to plan. We applied our Project Healthcheck tool (based on PRINCE2 techniques) to quickly assess and highlight project status, and then worked with the project team to pragmatically address priority issues and transfer knowledge.

WHY MAZARS? An experienced team with a personal touch…

Our BPI Team• Deliver practical solutions for sustainable growth and

performance improvement because we have strong expertise and many years of experience.

• Provide direct access to our most experienced team members because our teams are always Partner-led.

• Deliver real value through pragmatic advice and recommendations, supported by excellent client feedback.

Mazars• Our vision is to make a difference to our clients by providing

high-calibre advisory services in a personal, principled and professional way.

• We can respond quickly and seamlessly to your challenges wherever they are, as we are a single international partnership.

• We firmly believe we are the best firm to support you as advisors, due to the characteristics that make Mazars unique, our specific areas of technical excellence and focus on building strong and lasting relationships.

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Mazars LLP is the UK firm of Mazars, an international advisory and accountancy organisation, and is a limited liability partnership registered in England with registered number OC308299. A list of partners’ names is available for inspection at the firm’s registered office, Tower Bridge House, St Katharine’s Way, London E1W 1DD.

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Should you require any further information, please contact:

Craig Goodwin Partner

M: +44 (0)7779 120462E: craig.goodwin@mazars.co.uk

Paul Gilmour Partner

M: +44 (0)7711 469998E: paul.gilmour@mazars.co.uk

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