The Finance Function That Kept Pace With A Manufacturer's Global Growth
Manufacturing (International Group) // Group Turnover £24m
“Brad was our part time FD who helped us to realise our dreams of growing our business to heights we could only imagine. When we started working with Brad we were blind as to how our business was performing. Just three years later we sold the business to our largest competitor and are now part of a 550 person £120m business. This would not have been possible without Whittock Consulting!”
Jason Cross, Director Synetiq
The problem
Introduced to the client by their auditors, WCL took on Fractional FD services for a manufacturing group expanding fast, with an in-house accounts team already stretched by day-to-day demands. As the business grew and added subsidiaries in Spain, India and Thailand, the picture got harder to see: a UK head office and three overseas operations, but no consolidated view of how the group as a whole was performing.
The solution
WCL’s Fractional FD works alongside the in-house team rather than replacing it, providing management accounting and budgeting that turned raw numbers into decisions the board could act on. As the group’s international footprint grew, so did the finance function behind it. WCL now produces Group Consolidated Accounts bringing the UK, Spanish, Indian and Thai entities into a single, reliable view.
The outcome
Backed by numbers the board can trust, better decision-making has helped drive sales, gross profit and EBITDA higher. [Insert concrete outcomes if available e.g. specific growth figures, EBITDA improvement.] Working alongside this business since 2017, we’re proud to have grown with them from a UK manufacturer into an international group.
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