Ignis Finance Consulting AB

_{First published 2021 via Mpya Finance website}

Hiring a financial consultant, be it an accounting economist, CFO, Controller or whatever you as a financial consultant might do, can have different purposes. For example, you could hire a financial consultant to cover for a person who is on parental leave. Or maybe someone has resigned and you need a replacement quickly so as not to lose momentum. Or it’s simply too much to do for the current strength of a workplace.

Another reason may be that you need innovation, streamlining or specialist expertise at a development stage. Whatever the reason, I give everything at our customers’ workplace and give my best push towards development, improvement, and efficiency in every assignment.

Recently I talked to a friend who works as a personal fitness trainer, and she has an expression that I think fits perfectly even in my profession.

“Hire me to fire me”

For a PT, this means being hired because the customer wants to change their lifestyle, change their diet, or build a healthy body. But in the end, the goal should always be that the client manages on their own and therefore will be able to ”fire” their personal trainer.

When I go on a new assignment as a financial consultant, I have the same attitude. I want to come to a workplace and make efforts to streamline myself.

Here are some examples of that:

• Together with my colleagues, I can work out how we create synergies in the finance department to eliminate redundant tasks.
• Perhaps we are developing a way of working with a Business Intelligence system, such as Power BI or Qlik Sense, that removes unnecessary manual reporting.
• Sometimes you realize that old reports created out of habit are never read or used.
• It can even be as ”simple” a thing [suitable sarcastic emoji] as upgrading to a new ERP system that saves both time and money in the long run.

In short: when you as a customer hire Ignis Finance Consulting, you will get a person who loves to develop and improve to such a mild degree that the person ”improves themselves away”.

”Never be the ’smartest’ in the room” was the title of an article I wrote earlier, and I still think that motto applies! The person you hire should lift your department and work to – I’ll say it again – streamline themselves away.

So, Hire me to fire me!