The world of corporate consulting has exploded in the last two decades. What used to be simply providing general advice to corporate leaders has branched out from strategy consulting to more specialized areas such as HR, operations, IT, and now, corporate finance consulting. This niche has developed into a rapidly growing segment inside of management consulting.
The current market for management consultancy is widening since India is emerging as a key player in this post-pandemic world of the business environment, with many of the futuristic corporate manufacturing bases being shifted to this sub-continent with the main objective of diversifying the global supply chain management portfolio.
“FINNXT” is a Corporate “Finance & Management” Consulting company headquartered in Singapore, one of the world’s leading International financial hubs, founded with the primary objective of bridging the gap between Indian & International financing models with a greater focus on cost optimization of financing structures, resulting in a better bottom line for the corporate.
Since 2018, FINNXT has collaborated with many corporate managements to assist their entities in developing the best corporate finance solutions rather than relying on off-the-shelf financing practices. Team FINNXT has extensive experience in corporate finance solutions across industries, best-of-breed financial structuring, mergers, and acquisitions, project finance, banking relations, and working capital management.
Enabling Business Efficiencies
FINNXT assists organizations in gaining a competitive advantage through strategic corporate finance solutions by taking an integrated approach that connects their corporate client’s objectives-financial-operations, with a broader corporate outlook resulting in value creation.
Team FINNXT owing to its extensive international experience in corporate structuring, operates from an international finance perspective with many financing requirements, viz. working capital funds, term loans, project finance, OPEX finance, strategical finance, venture capital finance, financial instrument-backed finance, MTN, trade finance, equity, and promotor financing.
In the modern corporate environment, consultants are expected to be recruited on a success fee basis by the respective corporate; however, FINNXT engages using a rigid process of engagement model by comprehending the client's business model and its goals reviewed in first-hand, and then to proceed for financial structuring task with a lead time of at least 45 to 60 days towards closure.
Team FINNXT brainstorms the best of financial models, strategizes various options, structures the optimal financing structure based on the best of options available, augments the requisite financing, and finally takes it towards its execution. This established process enables the clients to receive the best solution at the optimum cost for a long-term nature in line with their corporate goals.
In the past four years, more than 200 of FINNXT's corporate clients from India, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Australia, China, Hong Kong, the US, and the UK have been able to engage, thanks to the team's greater expertise in handling various international management bandwidths, under the wide spectrum of industries includes infrastructure, manufacturing, green energy, eV, IT, retail, supply chain, agriculture, commodities, automation, and food processing. FINNXT specializes in the energy segment in particular sourcing eV, solar, hydrogen, and storage technology partners along with various investment products for Asian countries.
Transforming the Finance Industry
Since its inception, FINNXT with its hold-co in India has been well received by corporate clients across India and Singapore, with one of its cloud-based IT clients for structured financing solutions raising $40 million towards their expansion plans and another client in MRO activities, with a completely different outlook needed solutions for their $45 million capex program.
Team FINNXT handles hybrid financial instrument backed financing which includes MTN (medium-term note) issuance program as listed in the international exchanges which include engagement for one of the top NBFCs in India. Team FINNXT has one of its remarkable engagements, to arrange a $140 million financing line for a leading energy company from the US towards their India-based OPEX financing model, which FINNXT almost invented the best financing mix thru Opex financing solutions to address their heavily loaded CAPEX energy product installations.
Over the coming decades, the consulting industry is expected to grow in the areas of manufacturing, corporate structure, finance cost optimization, supply chain innovation, payment system integration, technology innovation, and strategic positioning. India's SME sector is also expected to make significant strides due to its "advantage India" demographic profile with its major growth contribution towards the Indian economy.
“We from FINNXT looking at the finer aspects of emerging “integrated management consultancy” (IMC) engagements with the corporate world, and there going to be a major consolidation emerging across consulting businesses, IB’s, as well other corporate advisories, which leads to many of the futuristic cross-functional executions. Team FINNXT has one of its greatest advantages thru its established international “financial market” network, along with its deep understanding on business-model of the respective client”, explains Sai Prasath.
With India already the fastest-growing economy in the world, poised towards a $5 trillion economy soon, FINNXT's immediate road map is to facilitate a larger volume of SME & MSME focused funds towards their short and long-term financial requirements, enabled with the cutting-edge fintech tools, to maximize their production efficiency under optimized financial cost.
Sai Prasath, Founder Director
Sai Prasath is an established corporate finance management professional, who has an extensive global experience of over three decades of exposure in capital projectequity finance and is skilled in developing a range of structured financial products tailor-made for specific corporate requirements. He holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce and a postgraduate diploma in management. He is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad and has his specialization in SMEP (Small & Medium Enterprise management program) from this prestigious institute.
Priya Prasath, Promotor Director
Priya Prasath has an extensive corporate experience of over two decades, deals with global strategic management & human resource planning, has worked with many Indian & multi-national corporate across industries, has shaped high-performing cultures at Fortune 500 and other major growth-oriented brands. She holds a Master’s degree in Economics and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management. She has a specialization in Human Resource Planning & Management and has undergone many Corporate Leadership development programs