Prepare your finance function for M&A activity

Step 1: Align on your acquisition ambitions 

The first step is about general readiness: VantagePoint needs to understand your goals, such as the size, scale and complexity of businesses you wish to acquire. 

Understanding your acquisition timeline will help us create a plan that allows for a streamlined integration. 

We’ll run a maturity assessment of your finance function to gauge readiness with a focus on the objectives you want to achieve. We’ll then present a roadmap of prioritised change initiatives that are necessary for you to reach your objectives. 

Step 2: Choose your specific acquisition integration 

At this stage, we identify your exact integration requirements, working backwards from an acquisition date. 

VantagePoint assesses and reviews the wider business, asking questions to various departments. This will help us create a plan. 

The plan we end up with will centre around people, process and technology: what can you do to build synergy in these areas as your business expands? 

Then we help you execute your new plan for acquisitive growth.

Step 3: Execute post-merger projects 

Now we’ll help you in the early days of making acquisitions.   

We'll identify business synergies and plan incremental improvements that will be achievable for your team. 

We will mobilise and guide each project to achieve your acquisition objectives.