11 months
Engagement
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M&A, audit & deal work Completed
Financial architecture for a major European deal
Led the financial architecture for the largest European deal in Avanade's 15-year history, keeping internal economics and client-facing outputs reconciled throughout an 11-month engagement.
Avanade's largest EU deal
Scale
Evidence inputs
- Retail sector; largest European deal in Avanade’s 15-year history; direct Group CFO reporting line.
- Excel · Financial modelling
Transformation
- Built one self-updating model for internal cost structures and external outputs.
- Maintained a consistent methodology across Sales, Finance, Tax and Legal stakeholders.
Controls & assurance
- Derived internal and external views from one source to prevent reconciliation drift.
- Kept cross-functional assumptions visible and consistent throughout the engagement.
Output
- Delivered reconciled deal economics throughout the 11-month engagement and received direct commendation from senior sponsors.
Business value
- Gave decision-makers one reliable view of transaction economics on the firm’s largest European deal.
- Problem
A complex transaction required internal cost structures and external outputs to remain aligned across an 11-month engagement.
- Approach
Built one self-updating model for internal cost structures and external outputs.
- Outcome
Delivered reconciled deal economics throughout the 11-month engagement and received direct commendation from senior sponsors.
Business value
Gave decision-makers one reliable view of transaction economics on the firm’s largest European deal.
Transformation route
- 01
Built one self-updating model for internal cost structures and external outputs.
- 02
Maintained a consistent methodology across Sales, Finance, Tax and Legal stakeholders.
Decision log
- Derived internal and external views from one source to prevent reconciliation drift.
- Kept cross-functional assumptions visible and consistent throughout the engagement.
What I learned
- One controlled model prevents commercial and financial views from diverging on a long transaction.
Future improvements
- Apply the single-source pattern to later group reporting and transaction work.