Financial Model Build
Building complex financial models without complication
With over 400 models built in the past 16 years, we’ve acquired comprehensive experience in building models for corporate finance and reporting, renewables, oil and gas, energy, utilities and infrastructure, as well as in other sectors and industries.
We are experts in building financial models. We work with robust template structures and standardised calculations that we have refined in hundreds of models. It’s a tried-and-tested approach that delivers accessible and easy-to-use models whilst removing complication, reducing the risk of error and minimising cost.
Our flexible and responsive approach to delivery is the same whether starting a model build from scratch or taking a legacy model and determining the best way forward.
How can we help?
Energy and Utilities
We have worked with clients across the energy and utilities industries, modelling complex technical calculations alongside financial calculations in a clear and structured way to provide valuable insights and maximise client confidence.
Other
Infrastructure
Our models provide the clarity needed for critical decision-making at every stage of an infrastructure project. We’ve built over 140 models to help clients assess, successfully bid for and close major schemes and more than 130 models to monitor or value operational projects.
Corporate Finance and Reporting
We work alongside clients to streamline and enhance their routine forecasting and reporting capabilities and provide a rapid and responsive service for fundraising and other transactions. We provide up-front solution design, rapidly understanding a business’s key drivers and how these should be best represented in a model.
Other
Industries
We have completed models in a wide variety of sectors and for many different purposes. Close collaboration with clients allows us to understand your needs, tailor the model build process and deliver bespoke solutions that add value to your business or project.
Our clients
Case Studies
In 2018 F1F9 created a best practice budgeting and reporting model for Power NI, followed by two smaller builds looking in more detail at specific elements of the business. Subsequently, Energia Group expressed a desire to improve and standardise their range of financial reporting and forecasting models. In response to this
In 2018 F1F9 created a best practice budgeting and reporting model for Power NI, followed by two smaller builds looking in more detail at specific elements of the business. Subsequently, Energia Group expressed a desire to improve and standardise their range of financial reporting and forecasting models. In response to this we delivered a series of in-house training courses on best practice modelling to finance delegates from businesses across the Group. We recently supplemented this engagement with a ‘model clinic’ and remediation work to a tax model that the Energia Group identified as a priority for development.
As a result of this work, the Energia Group has realised significant efficiencies in their modelling practices. The staff we have trained are now equipped to build better structured, more robust models and have direct access to F1F9 resource wherever it adds value.
Our client described their experience of working with us:
“F1F9 has been a flexible, responsive partner for the PR19 model build. With a large team of skilled financial modellers they have always been able to meet our modelling requirements, even when deadlines have been very short… I have shared beta versions of the model with companies and feedback from them has been positive: companies have found the FAST-compliant model much more transparent and easier to use. Feedback on the model from internal Ofwat stakeholders has also been very positive”.
F1F9’s approach meant that our client’s teams could achieve their desired improvement in transparency and usability across the model estate. The models were used by Masdar to support numerous operational and business development projects, with the experience gained on each project improving productivity on the next.
The company’s previous process for budgeting, reporting actuals and updating forecasts was complex and time-consuming, with the complexity leading to errors in the final output. Over 80 spreadsheets were in use across 11 departments for the budget process alone. Duplication of common inputs led to inconsistency.
The company’s previous process for budgeting, reporting actuals and updating forecasts was complex and time-consuming, with the complexity leading to errors in the final output. Over 80 spreadsheets were in use across 11 departments for the budget process alone. Duplication of common inputs led to inconsistency.
F1F9 created a new process for updating, analysing and communicating large financial datasets in 8 Excel financial models which take inputs from core non-Excel management information systems. This dramatically increased budgeting and forecasting efficiency as well as reducing the risk of errors. The reporting process is now simple and more accurate with a rapid turnaround. We worked in close collaboration with our Virgin Trains contacts and completed the work in 2 months. The new process has been fully adopted within Virgin Trains and F1F9 are providing ongoing support.