In today’s complex and fast-paced business environment, the role of the CFO is more critical than ever. Tasked with shaping the financial future of the organisation, CFOs are strategic leaders who must balance compliance, operational efficiency, and long-term growth. Their influence extends well beyond financial management—it requires vision, precision, and decisive leadership.

At Grant Thornton Bharat, we understand these responsibilities and provide the clarity and expertise needed to act decisively.With the latest tools, deep analytical insights, and a forward-thinking approach, our services empower key decision-makers to create long-term value, streamline financial reporting, and optimise strategies.

Solving the CFO’s most critical challenges

A CFO’s responsibilities can broadly be categorised into four interconnected areas. While priorities shift based on immediate needs – for instance, prioritising risk management during a crisis – maintaining a strategic balance across all four is critical for both meeting short-term demands and ensuring long-term success.

1.

Value creation

Helping to generate value for the organisation through the delivery of insights, involvement in strategic decisions, and leadership of change initiatives. 

2.

Stakeholder management

Identifying and balancing the needs of relevant stakeholders and customers of finance, including those inside and outside the finance function. 

3.

Operational delivery

Completing core finance function tasks such as transaction processing, ledger maintenance, and statutory reporting. 

4.

Business protection

Ensuring appropriate controls, processes, and governance are effective to identify and mitigate risks faced by the organisation and discharge relevant compliance responsibilities. 

Our solutions, tailored to your needs

At Grant Thornton Bharat, we don’t just provide solutions—we partner with you, tackling challenges head-on and designing innovative strategies tailored to your unique needs. With a balance of scale, expertise, and personalised service, we deliver impactful results that drive financial excellence.

Our comprehensive solutions support CFOs across multiple domains, including:

Our finance solution delivers expertise across finance, accounting, and compliance to support business growth and regulatory adherence.

  • Finance, accounting, and payroll outsourcing: End-to-end finance and accounting services for Indian and overseas companies.

  • Financial reporting: Preparation of financial statements in Indian and multiple international GAAPs using our CoEs and implement technological solutions for data intensive areas such as consolidated reporting and lease accounting.

  • Interim CFO/financial controller: Providing interim finance leadership roles to navigate transitions or leadership gaps.

  • ECL modelling: Set-up models compliant with Ind AS 109, IFRS 9 and ASC 326 to determine expected credit losses on financial asset portfolios.

  • Fund accounting and reporting: Managing end-to-end investor and regulatory reporting for funds in India and outside India.

  • Financial planning and analysis: Tailored support for budgeting, annual operating plans (AOPs), forecasting, cash forecasting, financial modelling, scenario planning, cost control, and monitoring.

  • Accounting advisory: Advisory services related to accounting, including GAAP conversions, hedge accounting, transaction accounting (capital raise, acquisitions, divestments), on-call advisory, and new standard implementation.

  • Learning solutions: Upskilling finance employees with technical and soft skills for future success.

  • Reporting transformation: Cut reporting time and improve quality by documenting finance processes, implementation of accounting policy manuals and adoption of digital reporting solutions.

Our tax compliance and advisory solution ensures businesses meet all tax obligations while optimising their tax position.

  • Compliance – Direct Tax, Indirect Tax, and Transfer Pricing: Ensuring businesses comply with all relevant tax laws, regulations, and reporting requirements efficiently and accurately.

  • Representation and Litigation Support: Providing expert support before relevant tax authorities to ensure smooth representation and dispute resolution.

  • Advisory - Direct Tax, Indirect Tax, and Transfer Pricing: Advisory services, including tax optimisation, tax diagnostic reviews, tax treaties, advance pricing agreements, and Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) schemes.

  • US Tax Corporate Compliance: Corporate tax returns (federal, state, and local) and other corporate tax compliance services for US Entities.

  • Advance Ruling: Clarify tax positions, avoid future litigation and streamline compliance.

Our governance, risk, & regulatory compliance solution enables organisations to strengthen governance frameworks, manage risks, and ensure regulatory compliance.

  • Corporate secretarial: Entity incorporation and adherence to day-to-day secretarial compliance under the Companies Act, SEBI, FEMA, and FCRA.

  • Compliance platform: Implementation of an online technology solution to manage and monitor regulatory compliance locally and globally.

  • Related party governance: A comprehensive review of related party transactions with best-practice recommendations for improving governance.

  • Internal audit: Evaluating operations, controls, and processes to ensure compliance, efficiency, and risk management.

  • Internal financial control (IFC) compliance: Assessing the adequacy and effectiveness of internal financial controls.

  • ESG advisory and assurance services: Supporting businesses in meeting their sustainability goals, including Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting (BRSR).

  • Business process re-design: Improving efficiency by cutting slack and excess, reducing costs, and sharpening management.

  • Enterprise risk management: Integrating risk management with strategic planning processes and promoting transparency and accountability.

  • Labour law advisory and compliances: Reviewing and evaluating compliances under labour laws, Labour codes transition support with compliance management and value added services.

Our deals advisory solution guides clients through complex transactions, valuations, and post-deal integration for optimal outcomes.

  • Valuations: Providing accurate valuations for enterprises, tangible assets, and ESOPs.

  • Deal structuring: Structuring transactions in compliance with tax and corporate regulations.

  • Buy-side, sell-side, and fund-raise advisory: Expert advisory to navigate complex transactions.

  • Transaction support: Due diligence services covering financial, commercial, and operational aspects, post-merger integration and taxation aspects.

  • Debt and special situations advisory: Debt advisory, restructuring, insolvency services, operational restructuring, special situations transaction advisory, and global asset tracing and recovery.

  • IPO preparation: Comprehensive support for IPO preparation, covering finance, tax, compliance, and governance.

Our finance transformation solution helps build future-ready finance organisations through process redesign, technology adoption and strategic insights. 

  • Finance process transformation: End-to-end assistance in transforming finance processes, from procure-to-pay (P2P) and order-to-cash (O2C) to reporting and analytics.

  • Finance technology implementation: Helping clients implement ERPs (SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Zoho) and other finance tools for workflow automation, reporting, and reconciliation.

  • Finance strategy, operating model and process design:
    • Providing predictive insights for decision making and business performance.
    • Developing a business aligned finance strategy that meets high expectations of our clients.
    • Helping build a more agile finance organisation that can leverage data assets and cloud technology to enable business growth.
  • Finance shared services: Supporting the implementation of finance shared services to enhance operational efficiency.

Our strategic initiatives solution drives business transformation, cost optimisation and sustainable growth.

  • Profit improvement: Driving top-line growth through sales transformation and bottom-line optimisation through operational cost reductions.

  • Business process re-engineering: Enabling organisations to consistently achieve their strategic goals while reducing operational risks, lowering operating expenses, and driving higher revenue growth.

  • High-impact sales transformation: Reimagining and revamping sales dynamics, business processes and policies, upgrading technology and bringing about holistic change in the market strategy.

  • Business planning: Developing comprehensive financial projections through detailed financial models covering a period of 3-5 years, based on strategic assumptions and management discussions.

  • Cost optimisation: Delivering Cost Optimisation models by assessing the financial structures, processes and systems of organisations and identifying areas for improvement, efficiency and waste/cost reduction.

  • Supply chain transformation: A thorough assessment and focus on KPIs to adapt to changing.

Why Grant Thornton Bharat?

Our expertise, innovative solutions, and client-centric approach ensure:

Let’s turn complexity into clarity and challenges into opportunities.

With us, you gain a trusted financial partner committed to delivering practical, high-impact solutions that drive growth and resilience.

Get in touch with our experts today.

Siddharth Talwar
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Siddharth Talwar
Partner & Leader, CFO Advisory Services, Grant Thornton Bharat