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Perfect Your Processes with Business Operations Solutions

A business operations consultant helps you improve the way your organization produces and delivers your goods and services to increase profitability. With CFO-level expertise, you can align your financial strategy to your operational strategy with optimal results.

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Do you need a strategic or operational CFO? Book a consultation.

Perfect Your Processes with Business Operations Solutions

A business operations consultant helps you improve the way your organization produces and delivers your goods and services to increase profitability. With CFO-level expertise, you can align your financial strategy to your operational strategy with optimal results.

Do you need a strategic or operational CFO? Book a consultation.

What You’ll Learn

  • The benefits of business operations consulting
  • How Paro can support cash flow management, compensation strategy, cost reduction and more
  • The difference between a strategic and operational CFO

What You’ll Learn

  • The benefits of business operations consulting
  • How Paro can support cash flow management, compensation strategy, cost reduction and more
  • The difference between a strategic and operational CFO

Why Hire a Paro Business Operations Consultant?

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Business operations encompass all of the systems and processes that power everything from procurement and manufacturing to distribution and customer service. While specific activities vary based on industry and organization, strategic ones like cash flow, compensation, cost reduction and business assessment govern them all.

That’s where an operational CFO from Paro comes in—to align your financial and
operational strategy so they both work harder for you.

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Why Hire a Paro Business Operations Consultant?

Business operations encompass all of the systems and processes that power everything from procurement and manufacturing to distribution and customer service. While specific activities vary based on industry and organization, strategic ones like cash flow, compensation, cost reduction and business assessment govern them all.

With the support and guidance of a software or ERP implementation consultant, such as a controller or accounting expert, we’ll help you:

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“Paro offered refreshing ideas for how to streamline our operations to
make them more efficient. Their team was consistently helpful, intelligent and thoughtful.”

– Deborah B., CFO

 

“Paro offered refreshing ideas for how to streamline our operations to make them more efficient. Their team was consistently helpful, intelligent and thoughtful.”

– Deborah B., CFO

Master Your Cash Flow Management Strategy to Unleash Operational Success

Cash flow management is the tracking and optimization of money coming into and going out of your business in the form of expenses or salaries. It’s one of the most important aspects of business—and one of the top reasons businesses fail.

Aside from enabling you to pay your bills, strong cash flow management ensures you can:

  • Understand where you’re spending money to identify waste.
  • Anticipate and ward off cash shortages and become more resilient.
  • Assess when and how much you can spend on growth.
  • Build trust and transparency among suppliers and banks.

How Business Operations Solutions Help You Manage Cash Flow

Our business operations consultants are experts that plug into your business to build out your cash flow strategy. They’ll start by asking the right questions and leading your departments through the right steps. Their impact includes:

  • Acting as an objective party to assess your vulnerabilities and risks
  • Analyzing reports to optimize KPIs, processes and costs
  • Laying groundwork, such as building your model or revisiting your contracts
  • Evaluating spend on talent, technology, etc. to correct negative cash flow
  • Ensuring your goals are aligned with your strategic vision
  • Helping to build a cash reserve
  • Determining a forecasting cadence and performance monitoring plan

Tell us about your goals and we’ll find the expert you need, fee-free.

Book a Consultation

Master Your Cash Flow Management Strategy to Unleash Operational Success

Cash flow management is the tracking and optimization of money coming into and going out of your business in the form of expenses or salaries. It’s one of the most important aspects of business—and one of the top reasons businesses fail.

Aside from enabling you to pay your bills, strong cash flow management ensures you can:

  • Understand where you’re spending money to identify waste.
  • Anticipate and ward off cash shortages and become more resilient.
  • Assess when and how much you can spend on growth.
  • Build trust and transparency among suppliers and banks.

How Business Operations Solutions Help You Manage Cash Flow

Our business operations consultants are experts that plug into your business to build out your cash flow strategy. They’ll start by asking the right questions and leading your departments through the right steps. Their impact includes:

  • Acting as an objective party to assess your vulnerabilities and risks
  • Analyzing reports to optimize KPIs, processes and costs
  • Laying groundwork, such as building your model or revisiting your contracts
  • Evaluating spend on talent, technology, etc. to correct negative cash flow
  • Ensuring your goals are aligned with your strategic vision
  • Helping to build a cash reserve
  • Determining a forecasting cadence and performance monitoring plan

Tell us about your goals and we’ll find the expert you need, fee-free.

Book a Consultation

Create a Compensation Strategy to Retain Your Greatest Value Drivers

Your compensation strategy represents your perspective on employee benefits and pay, including base pay, bonuses, incentives, perks, time off and other types of indirect pay.

It’s not only integral to employee retention, where it enhances performance and productivity, but also to talent acquisition, where it serves to attract high-quality talent at the right cost. Because your talent is crucial to value delivery, your compensation strategy is an essential pillar of your business operations.

How We’ll Get Your Compensation Strategy in Place

There are several ways our business operations solutions can benefit your business. A Paro CFO will jump in to help with:

  • Assessment: Evaluate your current strategy, pay systems, vendors and employee engagement plan against your forecasts and budget.
  • Talent market review: Review market data and salary surveys and adjust your strategy accordingly.
  • Performance targets: Evaluate jobs and descriptions to define what you need from your employees to reach your goals and theirs.
  • ImpPay systems and packages: Choose the right systems, vendors and packages for your goals and budget.
  • Approvals: Move your strategy through the approval pipeline from compliance to C-suite.

Create a Compensation Strategy to Retain Your Greatest Value Drivers

Your compensation strategy represents your perspective on employee benefits and pay, including base pay, bonuses, incentives, perks, time off and other types of indirect pay.

It’s not only integral to employee retention, where it enhances performance and productivity, but also to talent acquisition, where it serves to attract high-quality talent at the right cost. Because your talent is crucial to value delivery, your compensation strategy is an essential pillar of your business operations.

How We’ll Get Your Compensation Strategy in Place

There are several ways our business operations solutions can benefit your business. A Paro CFO will jump in to help with:

  • Assessment: Evaluate your current strategy, pay systems, vendors and employee engagement plan against your forecasts and budget.
  • Talent market review: Review market data and salary surveys and adjust your strategy accordingly.
  • Performance targets: Evaluate jobs and descriptions to define what you need from your employees to reach your goals and theirs.
  • ImpPay systems and packages: Choose the right systems, vendors and packages for your goals and budget.
  • Approvals: Move your strategy through the approval pipeline from compliance to C-suite.

“Paro’s team clearly has expertise in the D2C space. They understand what it’s like to run an ecomm company from an operations perspective. Very well connected and gave clear, solid advice—even when it wasn’t exactly what I wanted to hear.”

– Katie D., CEO & Founder

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“Paro’s team clearly has expertise in the D2C space. They understand what it’s like to run an ecomm company from an operations perspective. Very well connected and gave clear, solid advice—even when it wasn’t exactly what I wanted to hear.”

– Katie D., CEO & Founder

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Build Cost Reduction Into the Fabric of Your Operations

With an unbiased observer’s perspective, a fractional CFO can bring insights that are often difficult for your core leaders to see or address. They’ll take stock of your internal and external operations to optimize processes and spend efficiency.

How Paro Can Elevate Your Cost Reduction Strategy

Our experts have helped businesses reduce costs by:

  • Refining supply chain management, including negotiating contracts or reducing supplier lead times.
  • Identifying non-value-added activities to disinvest in.
  • Speeding up reporting and month-end close to avoid costly delays in decision making.
  • Transforming financial systems and analytical tools to provide visibility into operational performance.
  • Improving automation and speed to delivery.
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Build Cost Reduction Into the Fabric of Your Operations

With an unbiased observer’s perspective, a fractional CFO can bring insights that are often difficult for your core leaders to see or address. They’ll take stock of your internal and external operations to optimize processes and spend efficiency.

How Paro Can Elevate Your Cost Reduction Strategy

Our experts have helped businesses reduce costs by:

  • Refining supply chain management, including negotiating contracts or reducing supplier lead times.
  • Identifying non-value-added activities to disinvest in.
  • Speeding up reporting and month-end close to avoid costly delays in decision making.
  • Transforming financial systems and analytical tools to provide visibility into operational performance.
  • Improving automation and speed to delivery.
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How a 110-year-old General Contractor Cut Costs in Half and Positioned Itself for Future Growth

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Fractional CFO Leadership Sets Business on Path to 2x Revenue While Saving Nearly $0.5M

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How a 110-year-old General Contractor Cut Costs in Half and Positioned Itself for Future Growth

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Fractional CFO Leadership Sets Business on Path to 2x Revenue While Saving Nearly $0.5M

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Identify Blind Spots with Current-State
Business Assessment


What is a Business Assessment?

A business assessment, or current-state assessment, is an evaluation of the current state of your business, which analyzes the risks and opportunities inherent in your business and finance processes. There are different types of assessments with different focuses, whether it’s your tech stack, your finance operations or a specific product or service.

Your Paro expert will help you:

  • Identify strengths and weaknesses in your processes to build improvements.
  • Analyze workflows and processes to see where you’re exposed to the most risk.
  • Determine where to invest your resources to increase productivity.
  • Align business operations with your overall business strategy.
  • Increase overall process efficiency to improve profit margins.
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Identify Blind Spots with Current-State
Business Assessment


What is a Business Assessment?

A business assessment, or current-state assessment, is an evaluation of the current state of your business, which analyzes the risks and opportunities inherent in your business and finance processes. There are different types of assessments with different focuses, whether it’s your tech stack, your finance operations or a specific product or service.

Your Paro expert will help you:

  • Identify strengths and weaknesses in your processes to build improvements.
  • Analyze workflows and processes to see where you’re exposed to the most risk.
  • Determine where to invest your resources to increase productivity.
  • Align business operations with your overall business strategy.
  • Increase overall process efficiency to improve profit margins.
Book a Consultation

Paro Business Operations Solutions Are Fit to Your Industry and Unique Needs

Business operations consulting requires strong leadership and a tailored approach to meet and evolve with your specific needs. At Paro, we work with an exclusive expert network so you don’t have to waste time headhunting.

  • Hyper-relevant skills that suit your business type, category and market, validated by a proprietary skills assessment unique to area of expertise
  • Actionable experience implementing industry-leading processes and technologies across more than 55 industries with decades-worth of knowledge
  • Flexibility to dial up or down your CFO engagement without the burden of a full-time salary or recruiting fees
Book a Consultation

Paro Business Operations Solutions Are Fit to Your Industry and Unique Needs

Business operations consulting requires strong leadership and a tailored approach to meet and evolve with your specific needs. At Paro, we work with an exclusive expert network so you don’t have to waste time headhunting.

  • Hyper-relevant skills that suit your business type, category and market, validated by a proprietary skills assessment unique to area of expertise
  • Actionable experience implementing industry-leading processes and technologies across more than 55 industries with decades-worth of knowledge
  • Flexibility to dial up or down your CFO engagement without the burden of a full-time salary or recruiting fees
Book a Consultation

What It Means to Engage a
Strategic vs. Operational CFO

Paro CFOs represent the top 2% of finance and accounting professionals. But not all CFOs offer the same skillset. When you’re talking about business operations consulting, you’re looking at an operational CFO, which some businesses are capitalizing on by creating the hybrid role: CFO-COO.

While all of Paro CFOs are strategically minded, here are the key differences between “strategic” vs. “operational” CFOs.



Strategic CFO Solutions Operational CFO Solutions
Long-term strategic vision for your business Emphasis on day-to-day optimizations
A broader view of your operations in the context of how they drive and sustain value Deep understanding of how each business function and component works
Robust implementation and usage of financial analytics for future-casting Focus on systems and processes that drive efficiencies
Best for:
Long-term growth, enterprise transformation, stakeholder trust and communication		 Best for:
Debt elimination, short-term equity, cost reduction, value enhancement prior to acquisition

Find the Best CFO for Your Business

What It Means to Engage a Strategic vs. Operational CFO

Paro CFOs represent the top 2% of finance and accounting professionals. But not all CFOs offer the same skillset. When you’re talking about business operations consulting, you’re looking at an operational CFO, which some businesses are capitalizing on by creating the hybrid role: CFO-COO.

While all of Paro CFOs are strategically minded, here are the key differences between “strategic” vs. “operational” CFOs.



Strategic CFO Solutions
Long-term strategic vision for your business
A broader view of your operations in the context of how they drive and sustain value
Robust implementation and usage of financial analytics for future-casting
Best for:
Long-term growth, enterprise transformation, stakeholder trust and communication

Operational CFO Solutions
Emphasis on day-to-day optimizations
Deep understanding of how each business function and component works
Focus on systems and processes that drive efficiencies
Best for:
Debt elimination, short-term equity, cost reduction, value enhancement prior to acquisition

Find the Best CFO for Your Business

Business Operations FAQ

Business operations include all the activities your organization performs to produce and deliver goods and services to customers. It encompasses all the systems and processes that support your business functions, which vary based on industry and organization.

Business operations consulting is the practice of evaluating how you deliver value and making recommendations on where to invest or tighten costs across the value chain to achieve your strategic goals.

Both types of consulting are strategic in nature, but a business operations consultant will be uniquely focused on understanding and optimizing processes with an eye toward cross-enterprise operational transformation.

Strategy consulting revolves more so around driving innovation and investment for long-term value and growth. Learn more about our growth strategy consulting services.

First, understand your business goals and objectives. Then you’ll move into forecasting and reporting, building out a cash reserve, setting KPIs and strengthening your relationships with vendors and suppliers.

As part of the cash flow management, you’ll need to revisit contracts, talent strategy, technology investments, and of course budget. Learn more about cash flow management strategies.

Generally, business operations is a joint effort on behalf of your finance and operations leaders. The two must work in sync, feeding insights and data to each other to boost monitoring, reporting and decision-making.

Business operations cover a broad range of activities that vary by industry and organization. For example, a retail company’s operational spread will look very different from that of a construction company.

Some common examples include supply chain management, manufacturing, accounting and finance, marketing, sales, logistics, IT, procurement and customer service.

Business Operations FAQ

Business operations include all the activities your organization performs to produce and deliver goods and services to customers. It encompasses all the systems and processes that support your business functions, which vary based on industry and organization.

Business operations consulting is the practice of evaluating how you deliver value and making recommendations on where to invest or tighten costs across the value chain to achieve your strategic goals.

Both types of consulting are strategic in nature, but a business operations consultant will be uniquely focused on understanding and optimizing processes with an eye toward cross-enterprise operational transformation.

Strategy consulting revolves more so around driving innovation and investment for long-term value and growth. Learn more about our growth strategy consulting services.

First, understand your business goals and objectives. Then you’ll move into forecasting and reporting, building out a cash reserve, setting KPIs and strengthening your relationships with vendors and suppliers.

As part of the cash flow management, you’ll need to revisit contracts, talent strategy, technology investments, and of course budget. Learn more about cash flow management strategies.

Generally, business operations is a joint effort on behalf of your finance and operations leaders. The two must work in sync, feeding insights and data to each other to boost monitoring, reporting and decision-making.

Business operations cover a broad range of activities that vary by industry and organization. For example, a retail company’s operational spread will look very different from that of a construction company.

Some common examples include supply chain management, manufacturing, accounting and finance, marketing, sales, logistics, IT, procurement and customer service.