SERVICES

Diagnose. Rebaseline.
Improve. Sustain.

Four distinct ways to understand your cost base, establish what it should cost, deliver measurable improvement and maintain financial control.

01 / DIAGNOSTIC

Cost Base Diagnostic

From £5,000

Find where the money is going — and where the opportunities are. A focused 2–3 week investigation of your current cost base, identifying cost drivers, anomalies, leakage and areas where management assumptions may no longer reflect operational reality.

  • Cost-base health assessment
  • Spend and cost-driver analysis
  • Price / quantity / volume analysis
  • Supplier and category analysis
  • Consumption and variance investigation
  • Cost leakage and anomaly identification
  • Opportunity sizing
  • Management-ready diagnostic report
Deliverable
Cost Opportunity Pack

The question we answer:
Where are the opportunities?

Start with a Diagnostic →
02 / REBASELINE

Cost Rebaseline

Typically £10k–£20k

Build the cost model around reality — not inherited assumptions. A structured rebuild of the cost base using current operational activity, pricing, consumption and productivity assumptions to establish a defensible baseline.

  • Current-state cost baseline
  • Operational-driver modelling
  • Price × quantity × volume analysis
  • Inflation and productivity assumptions
  • Specification and consumption review
  • Labour and capacity assumptions
  • Challenge of inherited cost assumptions
  • Revised cost baseline
  • Management business case
Deliverable
Defensible Cost Baseline

The question we answer:
What should this cost?

Build Your Baseline →
03 / IMPROVEMENT

Cost Improvement Programme

Typically £20k–£50k+

Turn identified opportunities into measurable financial benefits. A structured programme to convert cost opportunities into initiatives, actions and validated savings across procurement, engineering, operations and finance.

  • Opportunity prioritisation
  • Supplier pricing and contract opportunities
  • Consumption and specification challenge
  • Procurement workstreams
  • Labour and productivity opportunities
  • Cost reduction and avoidance initiatives
  • Initiative ownership and milestones
  • Savings validation
  • Benefits tracking
  • Management governance
Deliverable
Validated Savings Programme

The question we answer:
How do we reduce it?

Improve Your Cost Base →
04 / PARTNERSHIP

Cost & FP&A Partner

Recurring

Keep the gains. Keep challenging the cost base. Ongoing senior finance support focused on cost performance, forecasting and continuous improvement — providing capability without the cost of a permanent senior hire.

  • Monthly cost performance reviews
  • Forecasting and reforecasting
  • Budget challenge
  • Cost-driver monitoring
  • Variance investigation
  • Savings and benefits tracking
  • Scenario modelling
  • Management reporting
  • Continuous improvement pipeline
  • Senior finance business partnering
Deliverable
Ongoing Cost & Performance Management

The question we answer:
How do we sustain and improve performance?

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