In Italy, local finance functions are often strong in statutory accounting and compliance, but not designed for phases that require speed, structure, and decision‑ready information.
This gap becomes critical after an acquisition or under PE ownership, when:
FinDep Consult is typically engaged when one or more of the following is true:
FinDep Consult is founder‑led and personally directed by Anastasia Aleksenko, an international finance leader with over 25 years of experience in post‑acquisition integration, interim finance leadership, and complex transformation environments across Europe and the Middle East.
Anastasia is ACCA‑qualified (UK) and an Italian Certified Public Accountant (Dottore Commercialista), combining international finance discipline with deep knowledge of Italian accounting, regulatory, and operating realities.
All engagements are led directly at senior level, ensuring hands‑on execution, speed of decision‑making, and clear accountability in situations where financial leadership materially impacts value.
Post-M&A situations are one of the key contexts in which FinDep Consult is typically engaged. Following acquisitions, International groups often need to quickly restore financial clarity, align Italian finance practices with Group requirements, and make local financial information fully understandable and usable for management and decision-making.
In these phases, we work closely with Group Finance teams to stabilise finance functions and translate local financial data into Group logic. This enables effective control over performance, cash dynamics and value creation, supported by a deep understanding of both international Group Finance expectations and the practical realities of Italian finance operations.
In addition to classic post-M&A integrations, FinDep Consult is frequently engaged in carve-out and separation scenarios, where finance functions need to be rapidly disentangled, stabilised and made standalone-ready.
These situations require precise control over financial boundaries, reporting logic, transitional arrangements and decision-making responsibilities, often under tight timelines and high execution risk. Our role is to restore clarity, ensure continuity and support management and investors throughout the post-deal transition.
For more details on our work with UK groups, please click here.
FinDep Consult is also engaged during start-up, scale-up and transformation phases, when finance structures need to be built, restructured or adapted to support rapid change. In these situations, the priority is to establish clear financial foundations and introduce governance and performance management appropriate to the stage of the business.
Our work enables management to move from ad-hoc or purely compliance-driven finance setups to structured, scalable and business-oriented finance functions. This ensures that financial information supports timely, informed decision-making and remains aligned with the company’s growth, transformation and operational objectives.
An example of this type of engagement is described in a recent case experience.
Alongside hands-on finance leadership during critical phases, FinDep Consult brings broad and deep expertise across core finance disciplines, typically required to stabilise, structure or transform finance functions in international environments.
Our capabilities include:
Accounting, financial reporting and tax compliance in Italy, including statutory accounting, financial statements and reporting under IFRS, US GAAP and Italian GAAP.
FP&A and Performance management, covering budgeting, forecasting, cost control, margin analysis and performance monitoring.
Cost management and cost control in complex environments, particularly in manufacturing and industrial contexts characterised by margin pressure, high fixed costs and operational complexity. This includes cost structure analysis, controllability assessment, cost-per-unit modelling, cost reduction programmes and governance of cost performance across operations.
Interim CFO and fractional CFO, providing temporary finance leadership during periods of transition, growth or organisational change.
Financial modelling and business intelligence, including custom financial models, scenario analysis and management dashboards.
Finance transformation and projects, encompassing finance function design, hands-on delivery of finance transformation initiatives, including ERP and finance systems implementation, and capability development.
We do not operate as a traditional consultancy.
Unlike global advisory firms, we do not work at arm’s length or limit our role to delivering frameworks for others to implement. And unlike purely local firms, we are not confined to statutory compliance or domestic practices.
Our work is rooted in hands-on finance leadership during critical phases of a company’s life cycle — periods marked by rising complexity, fragmented financial information and declining confidence in the numbers. When existing finance structures can no longer support the pace or direction of the business, we step in to restore clarity, rebuild trust in financial data and enable informed, timely decision-making.
We operate from inside organisations when clarity, speed and execution matter most, taking direct responsibility for outcomes rather than providing external recommendations. This is where our uniqueness lies.
Our approach combines international Group Finance discipline, including PE-backed environments, with deep knowledge of Italian practices, hands-on interim leadership, strong technical expertise and professional standards, supported by clear communication and effective stakeholder management.
We don’t believe in finance built around titles, formalities or perfect slide decks.
We believe in finance that works.
UK and international groups work with FinDep Consult because we operate as finance leaders, not external advisors.
Our mission is to transform finance from a compliance-driven function into a decision-enabling leadership tool, supporting organisations through post-M&A integration, growth and transformation with clarity, discipline and execution.
We prioritise financial information that can be clearly understood and used for decision-making, rather than polished presentations that do not improve control, insight or outcomes.
We take responsibility for results, stepping into execution and accountability instead of limiting our role to recommendations.
We align Italian finance practices with international Group expectations, ensuring transparency and governance without compromising local compliance.
We operate to high international professional standards, applying technical rigour, independence and transparency in all our work.
We work pragmatically with local teams, strategic and operational management and Group Finance to build alignment, trust and effective collaboration
If you are facing a situation where financial clarity, structure or leadership are critical, we are available for a confidential, no-obligation conversation to discuss your context and determine whether our experience is relevant to your situation.
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