Our consulting practice services the full gambit of corporate accounting and FP&A needs through our Financial Advisory and Finance & IT Transformation service offerings. GLR's 50 years of combined consulting and staffing experience in the local market highlights our capability to better understand the needs/expectations of clients, consistently construct a high-quality product and deliver seasoned professionals.
Whether supporting your next project or helping drive long-term strategy, we have proactively built relationships with top consulting talent. We maintain partnerships with subject matter experts who average between 15 and 20 years of experience in specific disciplines.
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Interim Staff Augmentation:
GL Resources offers a variety of Finance & Accounting professionals on an interim or contract to hire basis. These consultants are often brought on board to fulfill an immediate needs such as a special project, difficult to fill positions or maternity leave coverage. We maintain a well connected pipeline of consultants, from Staff Accountants to Controllers, which will be able to step into your organization and immediately delivery value to your group.
Enterprise Risk Management:
In today’s post-SOX environment, managing risk has become a central theme for most Finance & Accounting executives. GL Resources helps clients assess and test internal controls, as well as understand and respond to complex regulatory, tax and other reporting and compliance requirements. We have the professionals to deliver services such as:
- Risk assessments
- Internal audit support
- Sarbanes-Oxley support
- Risk management frameworks
Mergers & Acquisitions:
GL Resources Merger & Acquisition practice assists organizations in all facets of the process. Our consultants are well versed in due diligence, valuations and post integration efforts. The goal of our practice is two fold: the first is to develop a repeatable, scalable framework for a merger & acquisition process that can be applied across multiple business domains. Second is to ensure that the integration is seamless and the value of the acquisition is realized. Our consultants can provide the following services:
- Due Diligence
- Valuations
- Financial analysis and modeling
- Post integration efforts
Financial Reporting:
The role of the CFO has been undergoing a radical change due to growing demands for greater corporate accountability and improved governance procedures. GL Resources consultants can advise organizations on to how to get faster access to important finance and operational data and enhance decision support around planning, budgeting and forecasting. Our project professionals can assist with the following special projects:
- SEC reporting
- IFRS
- IPO Preparation
- Business intelligence and data warehouse implementation support
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| Financial & IT Transformation |
Finance & Accounting Software Package Selection:
Finance & Accounting executives are looking for ways to decrease their operating risk by maintaining or reducing their IT operating costs. As a result, increasing importance has been placed on finding a more effective way to provide a common set of IT services across multiple operating companies. To meet these market demands, companies have set forth to select a more agile back-office software package. GL Resources consultants can assist your organization in the following ways:
- Evaluate existing back-office processes and technical requirements
- Define "to-be" process portfolio and highlight technology gaps
- Perform competitive market analysis on software packages
- Build high-level business case for implementing and deploying an integrated Finance & Accounting solution
Finance & Accounting System Implementation Support:
In today's market there are economic pressures to improve your Finance and IT operations through the implementation of a new software package, however there is often little budget to support those initiatives. GL Resources retains a well connected pipeline of consultants that are well versed in many aspects of technology advisory and implementation approaches. Our practice provides companies with the option to augment existing projects with local resources at a cost effective rate or to lead efforts to optimize or implement new technologies. Our consultants service the following areas:
- ERP Technologies (SAP, Oracle & MS Product Suites)
- Business Intelligence technologies (Cognos, FRx, Business Objects, Crystal Reports)
- Business and technical analysts
Financial & Accounting Process Improvement
GL Resource’s consulting practices recognizes the need to help Finance & Accounting executives continuously improve their back office operations through business process improvement frameworks. Our pipeline of consultants have a great track record of linking business strategies and change imperatives to specific redesigned business processes to drive measurable, tangible improvement in key performance metrics. GL Resource’s business process improvement specialists serve the following areas:
- Strategic planning and financial analysis
- Activity base costing
- Lean manufacturing
- Benchmarking and KPIs
- Process design and implementation
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