Finance & Accounting

Today’s executives continue to face relentless demands to cut costs, improve productivity, streamline business operations and create greater value to the organization.

If your numbers or benchmarking studies reveal that costs are out of line, it may be an indicator that you should consider revising or implementing a strategic sourcing solution to improve the bottom line.

TPI can help optimize your core Finance & Accounting (F&A) resources and reduce costs by working with you to evaluate and design the best service delivery framework to manage and integrate all F&A activities.

Why look for this expertise on your staff when you can outsource it to professionals?

— Rick Saint, Director of Information Systems & Services, Finance & Planning
General Motors Acceptance Corporation International Operations

We listen to what your key functional objectives are and the associated pain points you are trying to eliminate. Our expert advisors then collaborate with your staff to map out the path forward, taking practical, viable steps. We review the opportunities for best practices and process improvements, and introduce new tools and service delivery models that may be applied with immediate effect.

You benefit through the cumulative experience of our people, our deep domain expertise and unparalleled access to data.

Following are our F&A services:

  • Assessment & Analysis — We help you with an assessment of your F&A strategy, functional operations, end-to-end business processes and service levels. We assess your environment against best practices and conduct a macro-analysis of your current costs.
  • Sourcing Strategy Alignment — We work with you to develop a sourcing strategy consistent with your business direction that takes into account the appropriate levels of risk management.
  • Competitive Cost Analysis — We summarize current costs by mapping them to market service bundles, normalize your true internal service costs, and then perform a “market” analysis of your internal costs versus market conditions for the same services.


Certain activities are stronger candidates for outsourcing, while others are more likely to be
retained and improved by F&A leadership.

  • Transaction Solutions —We help you plan and manage the phases of the F&A outsourcing engagement from requirements definition and service provider selection through due diligence, negotiations, contract signing, transition and implementation.
  • Requirements Development — For those activities that are best retained internally, TPI helps you conduct baseline assessments and diagnostics across a range of dimensions and works with you to develop action plans for improvement. For those processes tagged for a possible external solution, TPI assesses overall feasibility, recommends optimal market bundling, and provides advice and solutions that translate to best practice methods. We help you enter into a successful contract and manage the ongoing relationship.
  • Service Provider Qualification & Selection — We help you identify and quality potential service providers that have service capabilities to address your requirements. Then, we collaborate with you to evaluate and select the finalist(s) based on their proposal responses.
  • Service Management & Governance — After a service delivery model and relationship is established, the true work begins. TPI helps you establish formal governance procedures and provides education and training sessions to all stakeholders and service provider governance parties. Should you already have a sourcing arrangement under way, TPI can assist with renegotiations, re-sourcing, assessments or any transitions you wish to make.

For more information, contact:

f_a@tpi.net