Growing businesses need more than compliance. They need reliable systems, clear insight, and trusted finance leadership to support confident decision-making. We can act as a trusted advisor, combining practical delivery with strategic thinking to strengthen your finance function and free up leadership time.
Consulting
Expert finance support so you can focus on running your business
About Our Consulting Services
We support growing businesses that want their finance function to work harder, with consulting services that go beyond fixing problems. We can help design finance functions that support growth, improve control, and deliver insight you can rely on. Whether you need better systems, clearer reporting, or senior finance leadership, we provide hands-on expertise tailored to your business.
What this means for you.
Less firefighting. Better decisions. More time to lead your business.
Our Approach
Every business is different, and so is every solution we deliver.
Our consulting services are bespoke by design, shaped around your objectives, your operating model, and your growth plans. We don’t offer off-the-shelf solutions. Instead, we work closely with you to design a finance function built for success, today and as your business evolves.
We align systems, processes, insight, and leadership to ensure improvements are practical, embedded, and deliver measurable outcomes.
We help you select, implement, and embed finance systems that deliver reliable data and scale with your business.
Our support can include
- System appraisal and discovery assessments
- Planning, development, and implementation
- Systems testing and deployment support
- Operational finance system implementation
This will give you access to reliable data, faster reporting, and systems that grow with your business.
How it works
Our case studies demonstrate how we have helped a range of entrepreneurs and owner managed businesses with differing development and growth challenges to achieve their business and financial goals, by delivering improved reporting accuracy and visibility, streamlining finance systems and processes and providing financial leadership and decision-making support.
FAQ's
Finance Transformation & Advisory helps growing businesses improve systems, processes, reporting, and finance leadership to support better decision-making and scalable growth.
Client perspective
In their words
I have worked with Clive Owen LLP for over 7 years since I bought the business. The firm prepares our annual accounts and assists with our CLC audit and compliance work. They also provide ad hoc accountancy and audit support and advice as and when it is needed.
What I really value about the firm is that they have developed a thorough understanding of our business which supports our decision-making and helps us drive the business forward. Their accountancy and audit support are good at managing our expectations and always deliver to agreed timescales.
The team are professional, friendly, and very accommodating. Chris Beaumont is always available to support and provide proactive advice when we need it.
Their accountancy and audit support ensure we get great service from the team at Clive Owen LLP, and I would highly recommend their services.
Adrian Noble
Managing Director
Key Legal
Key Legal
We were delighted to work with Clive Owen LLP who prepared an Independent Accountant’s Report for our Innovate UK grant claim.
Their professionalism and attention to detail were evident throughout the process, with the report completed and issued ahead of our planned submission deadline.
We greatly appreciated their reliability, expertise and overall excellent service, and would highly recommend Eleanor and the wider Grants team.
– Reichal Roy
Talos Consulting Services Ltd
Talos Consulting Services Ltd
At Syselek, we develop innovative technology and toolchain solutions for transport decarbonisation and automation. We have been very fortunate to receive grant funding from Innovate UK. This has helped develop several of our innovative solutions.
One recent project was Fleet AI Recharging (“FAIR”). It explored new AI-based algorithms to accurately predict the energy consumption of electric HGVs. This enables live decisions about smart charging. These decisions help reduce operating costs and accelerate decarbonisation of the freight and logistics sector.
We began working with Clive Owen LLP two years ago. Since then, they have supported all our grant funding audit requirements. Their approach to the audit process is very smooth and intuitive. Their guidance has been easy to follow. Their quick responses to our questions have ensured our full compliance in all grant funding claims. This has enabled us to close out all our projects promptly.
We have been really impressed with the support from the grants team over these last two years. We are fully confident in their support going forward. We would certainly recommend Clive Owen’s grants team to anyone seeking Innovate UK grant funding audit services.
Syselek
I have worked with Clive Owen LLP for over five years now and I would highly recommend their services. Historically we used Big 4 advisors and I am pleased we made the move as we very much feel a valued client of the firm.
Currently they act as auditors and assist with tax advisory and compliance work. In addition, we have worked with their grant advisory team in order to secure a grant to assist with our business growth.
Over the years they have developed a good understanding of our business, managing expectations and delivering to agreed timescales. This continued throughout the pandemic where through good communication and team work on both sides, we were able to sign off the 2020 audit in line with previous timescales whilst conducting the audit remotely.
The staff team are professional and flexible. Kevin Shotton is always available to support and provide proactive advice.
We get great service and support from the team at Clive Owen LLP.
Royston
