Agile Capital Advisory

Finance Transformation Advisory

We rebuild the finance function around the decisions it exists to support.

A specialist consulting practice for banks and financial institutions — forecasting, regulatory and capital reporting, EPM platforms, and AI-enabled finance operations.

Twenty-five years of it, built inside the institutions we now advise: plus 6 years at Citi in Corporate and Divisional FP&A, and close to 2 decades at Deloitte & Touche in financial services advisory.

A financial district skyline at dusk overlaid with market indices, candlestick charts and performance percentages

Track record

25yrs

Leading finance change across global and regional banks

70%+

Reduction in redundant forecasting models across a global FP&A estate

2,000+

Reports consolidated in a single GL and reporting migration

3×

Faster finance inquiry response from AI-enabled operations

Figures reflect outcomes our founder led at Citi and Deloitte & Touche. Client institutions are not named.

Why we exist

Most finance problems are operating-model problems wearing a spreadsheet.

Forecast accuracy, close cycle time, control breaches, model proliferation, the endless rebuild of the same report — these are usually symptoms. The cause sits upstream, in how the data is sourced, who owns the number, and which decision the process was ever designed to serve.

We work the cause. That means we are as comfortable in a model validation review or a regulatory filing as we are redesigning an org chart or standing up a planning platform.

Capabilities

Six practice areas, one continuous problem.

Engagements rarely stay in one lane. A forecasting mandate becomes a data architecture question; a regulatory remediation becomes a controls redesign. We are built to follow the problem.

01

Financial Planning & Analysis

Driver-based forecasting and multi-scenario planning that senior leadership can actually defend — with the narrative to explain it.

  • Driver-based forecast & model design
  • Budget, plan and outlook cycles
  • Executive reporting & narrative
  • Profitability and cost analysis

02

Finance Transformation & Operating Model

Target operating model, process redesign, and the org structure to sustain it — measured in cycle time and capacity released.

  • Target operating model design
  • Close and reporting cycle compression
  • Process automation & standardisation
  • Capacity shift to higher-value analysis

03

Finance Systems & EPM

Platform selection, implementation and rescue — plus the data architecture underneath that decides whether any of it works.

  • Anaplan, OneStream, Oracle / Hyperion
  • SAP, Workday, ledger & GL migration
  • Data sourcing, ETL and aggregation
  • Power BI and Tableau reporting layers

04

Regulatory, Capital & Stress Testing

CCAR, DFAST, Basel and resolution planning — from methodology and model documentation through to the filing and the examiner conversation.

  • CCAR / DFAST forecasting & review-and-challenge
  • Resolution & recovery planning
  • Basel / RWA gap and impact assessment
  • FR Y-14A/Q, FR Y-9C reporting

05

AI & Analytics Enablement

Finance use cases for AI that survive contact with a control environment — identified, quantified, piloted and scaled.

  • Use-case identification & ROI cases
  • Agentic AI for finance operations
  • Self-service analytics enablement
  • Adoption, governance & scaling

06

Program Leadership & Change

Multi-year, cross-functional programs run to scope, budget and date — with the change management that makes the result stick.

  • Program and PMO leadership
  • Agile delivery (JIRA, Confluence)
  • Business requirements & design
  • Adoption, training & KPI tracking

Experience built at

  • CitiDirector, Global FP&A
  • Deloitte & ToucheSenior Manager, FS Advisory
  • Harvard DSIAgentic AI in Finance
  • CUNYMS Accounting, 2027

Representative engagements

The kind of mandate we are built to lead.

Drawn from programs our founder led at Citi and Deloitte & Touche. Client institutions are described by profile rather than name.

Global systemically important bank

Rationalising a forecasting model estate

FP&AModel governance25+ team

Situation

Years of local model-building had left the FP&A function with overlapping forecasts, inconsistent definitions across business lines, and an administrative load that crowded out actual analysis.

What we lead

  • Inventory and rationalisation of the model estate against the decisions each model served
  • Standardisation of data intake, ETL and aggregation on the ERP/EPM reporting platform
  • Common metric and definition layer across business teams
  • Re-pointing released capacity toward forward-looking analysis

70%+

Redundant models retired

20%+

YoY capacity shift to analysis

25+

Cross-functional team led

Global bank — finance operations

AI-enabled finance operations, taken to scale

AI enablementAnalyticsAdoption

Situation

Finance was absorbing a high volume of recurring inquiries that required manual research across disconnected sources — slow to answer, impossible to scale, and invisible in any productivity measure.

What we lead

  • Identification and ROI-sizing of high-impact AI use cases in finance operations
  • Development of digital finance tools against a live control environment
  • Partnership with the enterprise AI Center of Excellence and Technology for scaling
  • Adoption and change management for broader rollout across Finance

Faster inquiry response

Fewer duplicate requests

CoE

Scaled via enterprise AI function

Multinational financial institution

General ledger and reporting migration, 20+ countries

GL migrationR2R / P2P / O2CControls

Situation

A fragmented ledger and reporting landscape spanning procure-to-pay, record-to-report and order-to-cash had to be consolidated through financial close without interrupting statutory reporting or breaking the control framework.

What we lead

  • End-to-end migration design across P2P, R2R and O2C through close and reporting
  • Report rationalisation and consolidation for a 300+ user finance population
  • Accounting process redesign with Controllers
  • Control framework maintenance throughout the migration

2,000+

Reports consolidated

300+

Finance users migrated

20+

Countries in scope

Engage us

Tell us what is not closing on time.

Interim leadership, advisory mandates and defined programs. Direct to the principal — no intake tier.

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