As a specialized consulting firm with a focus on corporate performance management and controlling, we help companies and organizations shape transformation successfully and turn it into lasting impact.
CA Consulting stands for tailored solutions that work in practice. We combine consulting projects with targeted training to qualify your employees and actively involve them in the change process. Drawing on more than 50 years of experience in training and consulting, we make sure concepts do not simply end up in a drawer, but create real impact.
Our particular strength lies in connecting strategy, performance management, and transformation. This enables us to develop your finance and controlling function into a true business partner: one that provides decision-relevant insights, actively drives change, and creates tangible value as an internal advisor to management.
Depending on your needs, we support you in different roles:
• as subject-matter experts for the professional and methodological development of your projects and initiatives
• as sparring partners who bring fresh ideas, new perspectives, and smart, creative solutions to your team
• as facilitators for structured, results-oriented workshops
As a specialized consulting firm focused on performance management and controlling, we help companies and organizations successfully shape and implement their transformation and optimization initiatives.
Energize your Company!
These are the areas where we help you move your company, your function, and your organization forward.
Developing Your Strategy and Steering Model
We support you from the initial concept to implementation, whether you are developing a comprehensive corporate strategy, a functional strategy, a new or revised business model, or steering logic and KPI systems.
Controlling and Performance Measurement
Effective controlling is the foundation of successful business steering. We support you in introducing, developing, or redesigning your controlling system, including cost and performance accounting, planning, reporting, pricing, and modern methods such as driver-based planning and Monte Carlo simulation.
Increasing Efficiency
Using lean thinking and targeted process automation, we analyze your workflows, identify optimization potential, and design processes that are leaner and more effective.
Value-Creating Use of Data and Visualization
We help you build professional data management, develop a BI strategy, and use AI effectively, from automated forecasts to the integration of intelligent solutions into everyday work.
Roles and Collaboration Model
We support you in building a strong controlling culture with clearly defined roles and an effective collaboration model, enabling greater impact and real added value.
Finance & Controlling Transformation
How to align your finance and controlling function with future requirements and continuously develop it.
Your Fields of Action
Whatever your target vision for the CFO or controlling function looks like, we provide the expertise to help you successfully implement this ongoing transformation. We start exactly where you are today, work with you to develop your individual CFO or controlling agenda, and help you plan your roadmap.
If you want to rethink your entire finance or controlling transformation from the ground up, we can support you with a comprehensive approach based on our CA Finance & Controlling Operating Model — from strategy and the analysis of your key areas of focus through to a practical implementation roadmap.
Our consulting approach follows our holistic Finance & Controlling Operating Model, which covers these seven key areas:
- Business Model, Innovation & Strategy
- Planning & Risk
- Performance Management, KPIs & Reporting
- Data & Systems
- Processes & Methods
- Organization, Roles & Collaboration
- People & Change
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Business Model, Innovation & Strategy
Companies are facing rapid change driven by new technologies, dynamic markets, and shifting customer needs. CA Consulting helps you develop clear strategies and evolve your business models to ensure sustainable innovation and future-ready positioning.
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Shaping the Future with Strategic Clarity and Innovative Strength
The demands placed on companies are changing rapidly. New technologies, volatile markets, and evolving customer needs call for business models that are not only resilient, but also adaptable, as well as strategies with a clear focus. This is exactly where our consulting comes in: We support you in developing a strategy for your company or business unit, while also helping you further develop your business models. Together, we create the foundation for sustainable innovation and a future-oriented direction.
Our Consulting Concept
We see transformation as a creative, entrepreneurial process. At the center is your individual target vision, derived from your corporate strategy and embedded in your culture. As a specialized consulting firm, we do not work with one-size-fits-all solutions. Instead, we develop tailored concepts with you that truly move your organization forward.
Our consulting is based on the proven CA FICOM Model and includes:
- Business Model Canvas for the structured analysis and further development of your business model
- Scenario planning to evaluate strategic options in uncertain environments
- Involvement of stakeholders and knowledge holders from top and middle management as well as the wider organization
- Innovation workshops to encourage creative ideas and identify new value-creation potential
Planning & Risk
In a dynamic and uncertain environment, resilient planning is essential. CA Consulting helps companies build flexible, future-ready planning processes while systematically identifying and managing risks. We support you in designing a new planning process or enhancing your existing approach — from the planning concept to selecting the right planning system for your specific requirements.
Planning for the Future – with Foresight and Resilience
In a world defined by uncertainty and constant change, resilient planning is critical. Companies must remain agile while systematically identifying and managing risks. Our consulting approach helps you future-proof your planning processes and integrate risk management as a strategic steering element.
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Our Consulting Approach
We work with you to develop a planning model tailored to your organization’s requirements — whether driver-based, integrated, range-based, or otherwise. The approach incorporates both strategic and operational perspectives. We rely on methods that create transparency, enable scenario modeling, and improve decision-making confidence. Our consulting philosophy follows the principles of a consulting boutique: individualized, hands-on, and results-driven.
Our services include:
- Driver-based planning with rolling forecasts
- Scenario planning and range-based modeling to assess uncertainty
- Risk integration into planning and performance management
- Monte Carlo simulations for risk assessment
Our Methodology: Structured and Adaptable
As part of an analysis workshop, we work with you to identify the relevant planning and risk areas:
- Planning architecture: Building integrated planning models with value drivers
- Risk matrix & early warning systems: Systematic identification and assessment of risks
- Forecasting & simulation: Using modern tools for forecasting and scenario modeling
The results are translated into an implementation roadmap designed to sustainably improve your planning landscape.
Examples of application:
- Development of integrated planning models with value drivers
- Integration of risk management into corporate performance management
Controlling, KPI & Reporting
In today’s dynamic business environment, managing performance through a focused set of meaningful KPIs is essential for sustainable success. CA Consulting helps you develop clear performance management models with the right KPIs and establish decision-oriented reporting — creating a management system that reflects your strategy and empowers your organization to act.
Shaping the Future – with Transparency and Strong Decision-Making
Clear management models and meaningful KPIs are essential to business success. We help you develop a well-structured management logic that connects objectives, KPIs, and actions, while establishing reporting that truly supports decision-making. Together, we create a management system that reflects your strategic goals and enables people across your organization to make informed decisions.
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Our Consulting Approach
We help you establish a performance management model with clear KPIs and value drivers that creates transparency and supports sound decision-making. Our solutions are tailored to your specific business requirements.
Our consulting services include:
- KPI frameworks for defining relevant performance indicators
- Performance maps to visualize objectives and cause-and-effect relationships
- IBCS®-compliant reporting for consistent and meaningful reporting standards
Methodology: Clearly Structured and Practical
Our methodology is based on proven frameworks and tailored to your organization:
- Development of KPI systems aligned with your value drivers
- Creation of performance maps for strategic and operational management
- Implementation of IBCS®-compliant reporting
Examples of application:
- Development of KPI frameworks for new business areas
- Integration of management models into digital dashboards
- Smart reporting redesign with the implementation of IBCS®-compliant reporting to improve decision quality
Data & Systems
Today’s business world is driven by data — the gold of the future. Companies that intelligently manage, analyze, and leverage data create a decisive competitive advantage. CA Consulting supports you in building a future-ready data and systems landscape — from BI strategy to selecting the right software solutions.
Shaping the Future – with an Intelligent Data and Systems Landscape
In an increasingly data-driven world, powerful systems and a clear data strategy are critical to business success. We support you in building a future-ready data and systems landscape — from BI strategy to selecting the right software solutions.
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Our Consulting Approach
We view data and systems as strategic enablers of transformation. Together with you, we develop an integrated data strategy with thoughtful governance structures and support you in selecting and implementing suitable technologies. Our goal is to create a systems landscape that optimally supports your business processes while enabling innovation.
Our consulting services include:
- Data strategy workshops to develop a company-specific data vision
- Structured software selection processes to evaluate and select suitable solutions
- Process consulting to design system-ready processes and define business requirements and functional specifications
Our Methodology: Structured and Practical
Our methodology is based on proven practices and tailored to your current environment. During an analysis workshop, we work with you on:
- Data strategy: Developing a clear vision for the role of data within your organization
- Software selection: Structured evaluation and decision-making for new tools
- Process design: Assessing existing processes for system integration and defining future-state process models and specifications
This approach creates a solid basis for decision-making and greater transparency across your digital infrastructure.
Examples of application:
- Implementation of modern EPM (Enterprise Performance Management), BI, and analytics solutions
- Integration of AI solutions into existing systems landscapes
- Process redesign for automation and system integration
Processes & Methods
Companies that move quickly gain competitive advantages and increase market share. The challenge lies in improving efficiency while maintaining quality. CA Consulting supports you in optimizing your controlling processes through automation — creating greater efficiency, transparency, and strategic flexibility.
Increasing Efficiency – with Clear Processes and Modern Methods
In an increasingly complex business environment, lean and automated processes are critical success factors. Our consulting services focus on optimizing your controlling processes and creating new flexibility through automation. This enables you to gain time, transparency, and stronger strategic control.
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Our Consulting Approach
We optimize your processes and support automation initiatives to increase efficiency and create greater organizational flexibility. Our approach combines deep process understanding, technology expertise, and methodological clarity. Our consulting is based on the proven CA-FICOM model and includes:
- Process analysis along the value chain to identify efficiency potential
- Lean thinking to create lean, effective, and sustainable management and process efficiency
- Digitalization using modern systems, robotic process automation (RPA), and AI to automate repetitive tasks
Our Methodology: Lean, Automated, and Effective
Our methodology is based on proven approaches and tailored to your specific situation. During an analysis workshop, we work with you on:
- Process documentation: Swimlane visualization of core processes and identification of optimization potential
- Lean thinking in controlling and across the organization: Applying proven methods to increase efficiency
- Automation potential: Evaluation and implementation of digitalization, RPA solutions, and AI to reduce workload for your teams
This structured approach enables you to strategically and sustainably develop your processes while promoting operational excellence.
Examples of application:
- Introduction of RPA in controlling
- Process optimization along the value chain
- Increased efficiency through lean thinking
Organization, Roles & Collaboration
Artificial intelligence and digitalization are fundamentally transforming the way we work. At the same time, uncertainty is growing around future ways of working and the roles organizations will require. CA Consulting supports you in establishing clear roles and effective collaboration models that meaningfully combine agile and traditional approaches while providing guidance throughout the transformation.
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Designing Collaboration – with Clarity and Flexibility
In increasingly diverse and hybrid work environments, clear roles and effective collaboration models are essential. Our consulting services help you combine agile and traditional elements in a practical way and establish role concepts that create orientation and confidence.
Our Consulting Approach
Together with you, we define a role model tailored to your organization and design collaboration models that combine stability with adaptability. We rely on participative formats and practical tools.
Our services include:
- Role workshops for jointly defining and clarifying responsibilities
- Competency matrices for transparent assignment of skills and responsibilities
- Task force principles for the flexible implementation of new collaboration models and role concepts
Our Methodology: Clearly Structured and Practice-Oriented
As part of an analysis workshop, we develop the foundation for effective role and collaboration structures:
- Role models & business partnering approaches: Defining roles along the value chain
- Competency matrices: Visualizing skills and responsibilities
- Collaboration principles: Integrating agile and traditional elements for effective collaboration, especially in the context of digital transformation
The results are incorporated into an organizational model that sustainably strengthens collaboration across your organization.
Examples of application / typical use cases:
- Development of new role models and competency matrices
- Adaptation of collaboration models in the context of digital transformation
Person & Change
Transformation succeeds when people are actively involved and empowered. CA Consulting supports you with qualification programs and change formats designed to develop capabilities, unlock talent, and sustainably strengthen your organization.
Shaping the Future – with People at the Center
Transformation only succeeds when the people involved are actively engaged, committed to the change, and equipped with the right capabilities. We support you with qualification concepts and change formats that help develop employee competencies and strengthen your organization in a sustainable way.
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Our Consulting Approach
Transformation only works through people. We support you with qualification concepts and change formats focused on your culture, transformation goals, and the individual development of your employees.
Our consulting services include:
- Competency-based qualification programs for targeted capability development
- Change workshops to support transformation initiatives
- Cultural diagnostics to analyze and further develop your corporate culture
Our Methodology: Human-Centered and Effective
Our methodology combines individual development with organizational transformation:
- Development of qualification programs aligned with strategic objectives
- Facilitation of change workshops to support transformation processes
- Individual coaching for decision-makers and transformation leaders
This approach creates a solid foundation for informed decision-making and greater transparency throughout your digital transformation.
Examples of application:
- Delivery of change programs supporting strategic initiatives
- Development of communication concepts for projects and transformation initiatives
(M&A, digitalization, departmental transformation, carve-outs, etc.) - Support for transformation within controlling functions
- Implementation of modern EPM (Enterprise Performance Management), BI, and analytics solutions
- Integration of AI solutions into existing systems landscapes
- Process redesign for automation and system integration
Let’s Shape Your Future Together
Talk to us about your goals. Together, we will develop the right solution for your organization.
Jens Ropers
Let’s Shape Your Future Together
Talk to us about your goals. Together, we will develop the right solution for your organization.
Jens Ropers
CA Consulting
Your Specialized Consulting Firm for Performance Management and Transformation