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Financial Value Advisory

We help organisations not only understand the shifting financial landscape, but actively shape their response — unlocking financial value, building fiscal flexibility, and setting a clear course for sustainable growth.

What is Financial Value Advisory?

Financial Value Advisory is a strategic discipline focused on maximising enterprise value and enabling sustainable growth. This practice integrates deep financial insights with commercial strategy to help organisations unlock lasting financial value.

It involves:

  • Pinpointing where value is created – or lost
  • Evaluating financial impact across choices
  • Building ‘fiscal headroom’ into the cost base
  • Designing models, structures, and plans for long-term performance

We go beyond advice. We help you act and deliver results in a way that works for your culture.

Smarter cost optimisation

Cost pressure is rising, but smart leaders know it’s not just about cuts. It’s about cutting with purpose.

Our strategic approach includes:

  • Understanding value drivers across the business before making any cost decisions.
  • Identifying a broader range of levers—operational efficiency, spend categories, commercial models, and capital allocation.
  • Aligning cost with strategy, so we’re not just cutting for today, but making room for future growth.

The four levers that drive Financial Value

Resilient Growth

A leaner structure and cleaner balance sheet can enable faster, bolder moves. With lower structural drag and clearer visibility into value drivers, you gain the agility to respond to market shifts — or lead them.

Margin Expansion
Capital Effectiveness
Strategic Agility

A leaner structure and cleaner balance sheet can enable faster, bolder moves. With lower structural drag and clearer visibility into value drivers, you gain the agility to respond to market shifts — or lead them.

Discover how we’ve helped our clients

European-regulated financial brokerage: growth & re-investment strategy
Developed a strategic growth plan to double revenue, optimise capital allocation, prioritise high-ROI markets, and embed performance-led decision-making through zero-based budgeting and executive collaboration.
Inter-group benchmarking
Supported News Corp to better understand their business across three major group entities analysing key P&L, Product and Customer metrics.
Racing media brand – transformation strategy and org design​
Defined and delivered a transformation strategy to reduce costs, redesign the organisation, and drive multi-format growth, strengthening governance, investor confidence, and positioning the brand for…
Global universal bank: COO optimisation
Delivered COO optimisation for a global bank—streamlining operations, integrating data, and reducing headcount—unlocking $103M savings and enhancing efficiency, automation, and cost attribution across global teams.

Meet some of our experts

Tom Leary
Tom Leary
Partner
Henry Bell
Henry Bell
Consulting team
Nalin Mehrotra
Nalin Mehrotra
Director
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Q5 is a trading name of Q5 Ltd, which is registered in England and Wales, Registration No. 15266902.
The Registered Office is Thorney House, 34 Smith Square, London, England, SW1P 3HL.