Selected evidence of Capability GAPs being diagnosed and closed across shareholder exits, buy-and-build programmes, international growth, mergers, carve-outs, ERP programmes and regulated organisations. Client identities are withheld where appropriate; the challenges, interventions and evidenced outcomes are real.
From complexity to measurable progress
Each case shows how organisational demands had overtaken existing capability—and how diagnosis, stabilisation, operating-model change, implementation and evidence created stronger performance and value.
Overseas establishment and international growth
Overseas subsidiary establishment for a growing services business: David Roberts’ completed work as European Finance Director, connecting local establishment with group finance and management infrastructure.
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Transactions, integrations and carve-outs
Evidence from shareholder exits, acquisitions, international separations and standalone-business creation.
AI-enabled growth: manufacturing and services
Two research-based illustrative applications show how GAP would connect AI investment with capacity, margin and cash: production planning in manufacturing, and proposal preparation and handovers in a service business. These are delivery scenarios, rather than completed GAP client assignments.
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Insurance Broker Buy-and-Build and Shareholder Exit
Approximately 20 acquisitions, professionalisation and management succession helped increase gross written premium from £22 million to £31 million and culminated in a successful shareholder exit.
Industrial Software Scale-Up and International Exit
Revenue increased from £1.2 million to £4.9 million as the software platform, management team and international reach were strengthened ahead of a successful strategic sale.
Private-Equity Carve-Out and Value Realisation
Two technology and defence businesses separated and prepared for sale, supporting transactions of $160 million and $120 million.
PE-Backed Carve-Out and Standalone Finance
Finance Day-1 readiness, controls, payroll, treasury, reporting, data migration and a sustainable target operating model brought together in one separation programme.
$110m Acquisition, Carve-Out and Secure Integration
A $110 million acquisition connected transaction completion, carve-out, integration and a secure standalone operating model.
€700m Global Brand Carve-Out and Disposal
A global consumer brand separated across 12 countries, with complex workstreams and transitional services brought together to complete an orderly transfer.
Finance repair, cash and performance
Focused interventions that restored control, improved cash and strengthened management information.
PE-Backed Technology Cash and Order-to-Cash Improvement
Approximately $2.6 million of cash released by redesigning Order-to-Cash, strengthening Salesforce-enabled information and clarifying cross-functional accountability.
International-Charity Finance Stabilisation
Statutory accounts delivered on time, controls and FP&A strengthened, and portfolio oversight established across approximately 140 projects.
ERP, automation and assurance
Finance-led technology change connecting process, data, control, readiness and measurable outcomes.
Pharmaceutical Integration and Transformation
Three pharmaceutical businesses integrated within one year, alongside SAP implementation, process standardisation and major operational rationalisation. The wider programme delivered savings exceeding $100 million.
Multi-Entity Automation and Control Transformation
Record-to-report transformation across 15 companies, with approximately 80% of reconciliations capable of automation.
Regulated-Utility Systems and Billing Assurance
Independent finance and control assurance connecting a complex billing integration to revenue, debt, accruals, reporting and evidence-based go-live governance.
Purpose-led restructuring and recovery
Financial sustainability delivered with proportionate governance, stakeholder engagement and respect for organisational purpose.
Purpose-Led Recovery and £8m Transformation
Approximately £8 million of savings supported by structured programme governance, stakeholder engagement and alignment between financial sustainability and organisational purpose.
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Not-for-profit finance leadership and sustainability
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