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About Optimum-Value

Optimum-Value's Finance Business Partners are trusted advisors who answer the needs of SME and start-up sectors on an on-demand basis. 

 

They help businesses to thrive and grow, by creating value for their owners and stakeholders through insight and finance expertise.

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Our Expertise

Our Finance Business Partners have a wide range of expertise gained through working in a diverse cross section of industries, for all sizes of company, at different stages of evolution. They have a wide arsenal of proven methodologies to draw upon, giving you the appropriate support matched to your business needs.

Our offering

  • Professional commercial financial support

  • Provision of actionable insight

  • Invaluable decision support 

  • Customer focused approach 

  • Agility and outcome focused

  • Integrity

  • Honesty

  • Reliability

  • Transparency

  • Keep it simple 

Our service fees offer exceptional value for money; being a fraction of the cost of a full or part time Finance Director and because you are dealing direct you pay no finders fee. Customised to your specific needs, our fees can be arranged on an agreed day rate basis, fixed pricing contract or even by monthly retainer.  

Our Values

Our Fees

OUR APPROACH

Commercial finance is about joining the dots not counting them. Finance Business Partnering is a skill set and way of thinking which supports businesses in making insightful and actionable decisions to create value and enable growth.

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Highly successful and sustainable companies show five attributes, which are in the DNA of our Finance Business Partners (FBP): Customer-centricity, insight led, adaptive to change, outcome focused and finally, a clearly defined purpose that can engage employees. 

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Our Finance Business Partners create a tailored and agreed action plan, highlghting where they can support your company, helping you solve the challenges you face, spot and take those opportunities and manage risks, all of which deliver a sustainable and growing company. They complement your existing finance resource by adding a new dimension and fresh perspective. (Download article to read more).

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Our services are on-demand and scalable to your specific requirements; when you have a need for our capabilities we’ll be there to support you every step of the way!

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OUR FOUNDER

Our founder, Andy Cox, is a chartered finance professional, who is passionate about improving the performance of ambitious companies, by focusing on the commercial and financial insight to provide decision making that delivers impactful outcomes for its owners.

 

His 25+ years of commercial business partnering experience engaging Marketing, Sales, Business Development and Technology leadership teams, has shown him that purpose, aligned values, use of customer and operational insight and access to relevant and timely finance decision support, are not only applicable to large complex corporates, but can also be employed to SMEs and start-ups going through their various stage of the development lifecycle. 

 

What drove him to set up the company was a recognition that SMEs don’t have the commercial finance support their bigger corporate competitors do; missing out on insightful decision making and strategic capabilities that can grow both the top and bottom line, as well as maximise return on investment. His vision is to offer affordable and scalable commercial finance services to ambitious SMEs to even up the playing field, and allow their owners to create the growth and value that they set out to achieve.

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Start your journey today, with a free consultation on how, where and when Optimum Value can best serve you in the challenges and opportunities today and ahead.

Andy Cox

Founder

"I’m a commercial finance professional who is passionate about solving real life business problems, not simply creating spreadsheets. I look to create value by joining the dots, not counting them!

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Every business faces unique challenges, some which they can control with better decision support, others which have to be managed (e.g. pandemic, regulation) and require a new way of looking at things (e.g. new business model, channel to market). But they can all benefit from commercial finance insight, that an experienced Finance Business Partner can bring to the table".

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Start your journey today, with a free consultation.

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But don't just take our word on how Optimum-Value can help your business,

read what others have to say about us...

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TESTIMONIALS

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Bryan Conway

CMO (2014-18), 

Travelport

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"Andy has a very customer focused attitude to his role, both from an internal perspective supporting me and my organisation and also externally in supporting the differentiation of our value propositions to our targeted customer segments. He performs beyond the traditional financial business partner, with thought-leadership that offers a compelling blend of financial, strategic, commercial and innovative acumen. He brings ideas from other industries in which he has worked that add value to his thinking and delivery of objectives. His focus and guidance has improved our understanding of the returns we are achieving from our investments. I enjoy working with Andy and would not hesitate to recommend him for similar roles".

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Jason Nash

CEO & founder,

Curious Cognizance

"Andy has a strong business partnering financial background, but also understands the importance of being customer focused as well as aware of competitor and market dynamics which affects the success of product adoption. He enjoys challenging the status quo, and provides insightful information in which to manage the product portfolio. He is a pleasure to work with and a good sound board to test new ideas and business models".

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Chris Roberts

Partner,

Colmenero Digital 

"Andy’s experience has provided him with the right combination of skills to think outside the box in developing transformational business models/revenue streams. Andy has both the passion and the discipline to quickly take new concepts, and working with our partners, capture supporting customer insight, qualify the size of the prize, develop the proposition and create the business case; to influence and aid decision making at the C-level. He has also been instrumental in developing our strategic thinking in areas of monetising data, customer experience, and new digital business models to strengthen our competitive advantage. Andy is a pleasure to work with.”

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Gillian Keegan

Minister of

Apprentices & Skills,

Dept. of Education

"Andy was my finance business partner (..at Travelport). Andy introduced much needed financial discipline and reporting enabling us to make the right decisions about investment, monitor spend and return on investment. Andy was highly experienced in managing finance for Marketing, and was a collaborative and effective colleague who brought a new level of understanding to the finance function".

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