Corporate/ Management Consulting
The business environment is becoming challenging and global which is creating immense
need and demand for companies to assess whether appropriate resources, innovation
and talent are available in house to cater to their business strategies. We are the leading
global service provider catering to the requirements of clients for specialized business
consultancy and bouquet of services in following areas:
Virtual/ Flexi CFO
Virtual CFO service provides businesses an affordable solution to promoters of SMEs and
Start up entrepreneurs, which have a finance and accounts team but do not have a inhouse CFO, to manage the operations of their organisations in their growth journey.
As Virtual CFO, we provide strategic business advisory and take care of support functions,
developing new ideas and converting their ideas into successful business so that the
promoters can focus on key business areas to unlock the full potential for profitable
growth.
There are many challenges facing a growing business and our Virtual CFO service helps
you navigate those challenges effectively by providing professional advice, analysis and
support to management. Hiring a full-time professional CFO may not be in the budget of a
small enterprise. Startups and SMEs are increasingly recognizing the need to have
professional CFO services and realize that managing finance and accounts, compliances,
corporate governance, reporting and strategic requirements of a business are important
tasks.
Virtual/ Flexi CFO provide an affordable part time solution addressing the needs of a full
time CFO without compromising on the quality. A cost effective way to develop,
implement, monitor and control the financial and compliance function, advising
management, coordinating with external clients like Banks, clients and associated and
interacting with cross functional teams, helping in aligning the efforts for achieving
objective in an efficient manner.
We also play important role in negotiations, contract management, helping the
management with development of budgets, forecasts, cashflows, MIS, assessment of
business risks, fund raising, M&A, corporate restructuring, finance, IT and HR solutions on
demand.
Our solution is execution focused. We oversee the complete finance and accounts
function and provide day-to-day oversight, mentoring and support to the client’s team
and management.
Transaction advisory
We, at Optimal, offer comprehensive, integrated, goal oriented solutions to help you to
explore and evaluate opportunities, create right strategies and implement these transactions in efficient, cost effective and compliant manner. We aim to create significant value for entrepreneur and companies by helping them adopt and execute the
right strategy. Our young and dynamic team analyses the transaction with innovative flair
and problem solving zeal considering the short term as well as long term pros and
cons and assists in executing the transaction in the best possible manner.
Our Offerings
- Mergers & Amalgamations
- Acquisitions & Takeovers
- Demergers & Hive offs
- Slump sale/asset sale
- Financial structuring
- Contract Management & Negotiations
- Joint Venture Advisory
Financial Management
With continuous investment in people, technology, global delivery and research and
development, Optimal brings its specialized knowledge and expertise to corporate finance
solutions by optimizing both where and how work is done through scalable, world class
Finance and Accounting services.
We focus on Financial Planning, Accounting Operations Analysis, Product Costing & Pricing
Alignment and Growth Initiatives covering Demand Forecasts, Risk and Compliance;
Revenue, Cost, P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Analysis of Financial Statements; Short
Term and Long Term Budget Planning Variance Maintaining and improving process
controls and maintaining “ever green” process documentation.
Process Management
We specialize in design and development of Standard Operating Procedures for
Accounting function Business Process Streamlining: identifying revenue leakages and
cost/time overruns. We also undertake Process Risk Analysis & suggest mitigation
measures
Treasury Management; Financing and loan syndication
We assess and analyse the short term and long term funding requirements for business,
Capital Structuring/ Restructuring and arrange sourcing of Funds. Funding through Banks,
PE and PI; Loan syndication - Fund/ Non-Fund based funding from Banks/ Financial
Institutions. We also manage banking relations; cash & debt planning & prepare Business
Plan/ Project Report as per Management requirements.
Audit Management
We are a team of qualified and experienced professional competent to undertake and
manage Cost Audit, Statutory Audit, Secretarial Audit, and concurrent audit
Due Diligence & Financial Structuring
We aim to suggest the most appropriate strategies to the clients after detailed research
and analysis of business needs of client. Our ultimate aim is to exceed client expectations
by providing reliable and trusted advisory and therefore maintain and cherish long-term
relationship with them. We focus on niche areas involving complex and innovative
transactions in which we believe in value creation. Our deep understanding of
conventional and procedural laws, continuous research, and good regulatory relationship
coupled with industry proficiency in an integrated manner is our core strength for due
diligence and financial structuring.
Accredited Management System Certification Services
We provide management consultancy and advisory services to develop the systems,
documentation and process and obtain the accredited management system certification
which not only enhance the process standardisation & efficiencies but also establish the
credibility of the organisation and products. The following Management System
Certification services are provided:
- Quality Management System (ISO 9001:2015)
- Environmental management System (ISO 14001:2015)
Tax & Regulatory Services
- Complete Tax Registrations direct/ indirect- Income Tax and GST etc.
- Timely Filing of Tax returns; Assessments and representation before Authorities
- Statutory Registrations with regular periodic Compliances
- Lower/ Nil deduction of TDS/ Withholding Tax
- Tax strategies and contract structuring
- Tax Assessments & Litigations
- Corporate Tax Planning and advisory
- International Tax structuring and Transfer Pricing
- Tax advisory on mergers, amalgamations and business/ entity restructuring
Taxation Advisory- Direct, Indirect, International Taxation
The core strength and value addition Optimal brings on table for any organisation is with
its innovative and impeccable Tax advisory. The founders of Optimal have a demonstrated
hands-on experience of unwinding the complexities of Indian Taxation, which has not only
helped the organisations to be compliant with the statutory requirements at various state
and central level of taxation but has also contributed significantly in the bottom lines of
the projects through successful application and implementation of innovative tax
strategies and contract restructuring.
We, at Optimal, have experienced that Taxes account for a significant portion of the
project value and therefore have also been a key driver of cost and profitability of any project. Many a times, wrong application of taxes result either in excessive cost & cash
outflow which could very well be saved without any additional risk; or in serious tax
defaults. Most of the times in our experience, it is found that the management of
companies have their key focus concentrated on material planning, logistic planning,
project/ sales planning, client management etc. and is not present to such losses/ defaults
well in time because the potential of Tax Planning often gets ignored, which is the key
differential between a successful and unsuccessful bid/ project.
Variety of kinds and rates of taxes, having different applications and rates for goods and
services, work contracts, state/ central levels, direct/ indirect and involvement of TDS/
withholding tax makes Indian Tax regime very complex for the businesses. With dynamic
changes in the tax laws and structure in recent times, it has become a very tough
challenge for organisations to optimise the tax cost and comply with the numerous
statutory requirements at the same time. The situation aggravates in contracts with the
requirement of deduction of tax at source (TDS) on Income tax and work contracts as it
adversely affect the availability of much needed cash flow of the projects, which
otherwise could be addressed with innovative tax strategies/ structuring.
Team Optimal specialises in optimising the application of taxes in a project in terms of
cost as well as cash flow and being tax compliant at the same time. We advise on right
from the entity structure for execution of project; undertake proper structuring of various
contracts in the project for appropriate and correct application of applicable direct &
indirect taxes affecting cost (P&L) & cash flow to keep the organisations on right side of
tax laws with minimal taxation.
We have a demonstrated track record of quantifiable contribution in the bottom lines
worth more than USD 100 Million and making huge difference in success of the bids/
viability of the projects through development and implementation of successful Tax
strategies/ structuring in the organisations we have been associated with.