The Meridian.

Turn growth into healthy, predictable numbers

Strong financial performance is the foundation for sustainable growth and resilience. The Meridian works with businesses across India to strengthen margins, stabilise cash flow, and improve financial discipline through better planning, sharper cost management, smarter pricing, and financial systems that give leadership real-time visibility and control.

Financial Performance Consulting

Key Benefits

Improved profitability and margins by tightening cost visibility, refining pricing, and focusing on the most profitable products, customers, and segments.

Better cash flow management through clearer forecasts, tighter receivables and payables practices, and working capital discipline.

Data-driven pricing strategies that link price to value, cost, and market realities instead of guesswork or pure competition matching.

Cost structure optimisation that distinguishes between good costs and waste, and reallocates spend toward activities that actually drive growth.

Enhanced financial visibility and controls via dashboards, regular review rhythms, and simple guardrails that help leaders catch issues early.

Our Approach

1

Financial Analysis

Deep dive into your P&L, balance sheet, cash flows, cost structure, and key drivers to understand where money is earned, lost, or tied up.

2

Opportunity Identification

Identify concrete opportunities for margin improvement, cash flow gains, and cost optimisation across products, customers, functions, and overheads.

3

Strategy Development

Develop practical pricing, cost management, and working capital strategies, with clear targets and policies that your team can actually implement.​

4

Implementation Support

Guide the execution of financial improvement initiatives through action plans, reviews, and coaching for finance and business leader

5

Systems Enhancement

Strengthen financial planning, reporting, and decision-making tools—dashboards, forecasts, and review rhythms—so leadership always has reliable, timely numbers.

What You Get

Financial performance analysis that breaks down revenue, margins, cash flow, and cost structure by product, customer, and segment.​
Profitability improvement roadmap outlining the key levers, initiatives, and timelines to lift margins over the next 6–24 months.
Pricing strategy and simple pricing frameworks your teams can use to set, discount, and review prices with more confidence.
Cost reduction initiatives with quantified savings, owners, and actions focused on eliminating waste rather than cutting blindly.
Working capital optimisation plan covering receivables, payables, inventory, and terms to smooth cash flow and reduce financing needs.
Financial planning models for budgeting, forecasting, and scenario analysis, tailored to how your business actually runs.
Management reporting dashboards that put your key financial metrics and KPIs in one place for fast, informed decisions.

Ideal For

Businesses seeing margins decline or profits not keeping pace with revenue and needing clarity on where money is leaking.

Companies experiencing cash flow challenges such as frequent crunches, delayed collections, or constant dependence on short-term borrowing.

Organizations with poor financial visibility, relying on delayed or patchy reports and wanting real-time dashboards and clearer performance insights.

Businesses preparing for fundraising or sale that need cleaner numbers, stronger narratives, and robust financial models to inspire investor or buyer confidence.

Companies that want stronger financial discipline—regular reviews, budgets, and controls—without building a large in-house finance team.

Ready to Get Started?

Let's discuss how financial performance consulting can help your business achieve its goals. Schedule a free consultation to explore what's possible.