Business turnaround and cash management solutions

An effective business turnaround plan can mean the difference between success and failure. It can get your company back on track following a financial jolt or sustained underperformance. But effective cash management strategies are vital to keep your business streamlined and fully focused even in the best of times. 

Whether you’re part of a struggling organisation or aiming to optimise operations, we’ll support your company at every step. 

A business turnaround strategy is a plan designed to stabilise an underperforming or struggling company. It aims to put the business on a more sustainable footing during a period of stress, preventing failure and ultimately placing it on the path back to growth. 

A business turnaround plan may be needed for many reasons, from running low on cash to losing a major customer. An effective strategy can tackle each problem and identify ways to overcome them. It might involve cost-cutting, refinancing, discussions with lenders or increased marketing efforts. 

But the key principles of business turnaround management aren’t just for underperforming companies. Diligent cash management also helps growing firms stay on the right track. 

Whatever your company’s scale or financial position, there are several ways we can help with turnaround advisory and cash management solutions. 

With extensive industry experience delivering turnaround and transformation for stressed and high-growth businesses, we cover the end-to-end process. Whether you need strategic assistance or in-depth support and project management, our Institute for Turnaround accredited partners can help. 

S&W is an Institute for Turnaround corporate partner. Several of our team are also personally accredited to the highest standard by the institute for their expertise in helping underperforming businesses avoid unnecessary insolvencies. 

Combining segmental data analytics with business understanding, we put the spotlight on underperforming sales or margins, overspent costs, inefficient operational processes and ineffective controls. 

We work closely with businesses to achieve targeted improvements and provide tools to monitor ongoing performance. 

We combine data analytics, industry insights and commercial acumen to review the whole working capital cycle, identifying tailored improvements to processes, practices and controls. 

Using segmental working capital analytics, we drill down to issues’ root causes and identify and target achievable solutions monitored through live dashboards. 

Our working capital consulting service can also focus on single areas, such as customer receivables, stock or trade payables. 

Our experts can help improve your cash flow forecasting. We make forecasting more robust and enhance predictive effectiveness by systemising inputs, streamlining processes and building in feedback loops. 

Our integrated approach to cash flow management improves forecasting speeds, enables data-led decision-making, enhances stakeholder confidence and manages risk. We also provide complex financial modelling services. 

With wide-ranging industry and advisory experience, our cash management and business turnaround professionals can provide a tailored troubleshooting service to fix issues from data cleansing to unblocking project delivery. 

We get involved when leaders are dragged into the details and lack sufficient time or when an external voice is required to focus attention and ensure delivery. Our support lets leaders refocus on strategic issues. 

We draw on industry experience to conduct strategic, financial and operational business reviews for options and recommendations. 

We also complete targeted, tailored reviews for stakeholders on risk areas such as cash flow forecasting or receivables conversions.