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Global Expansion

Expand your business footprint and seize new market opportunities with our global expansion expertise.

The Problem

Many South African-based firms recognize the strategic and commercial benefits of global expansion but struggle to execute due to a lack of accessible, affordable, and comprehensive advice. The process is complex and time-consuming, requiring significant capacity to research markets, understand structural and financial implications, and navigate legal and tax considerations.

The Solution

Finovate offers a cost-effective, experience-driven alternative by acting as your fractional CFO team, guiding you through the global expansion process. Our international network of advisors, including tax and IP specialists and local representatives, provides tailored advice and execution support across major global markets.

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Phase 1: Exploration & Strategy Development

In the first phase, we focus on thoroughly understanding your current business structure and market presence.

This involves a deep dive into your existing operations, assessing your strategic goals, and evaluating the feasibility of global expansion. We work closely with you to develop a detailed 3-5 year financial model and business plan that aligns with your expansion objectives.

This phase also includes crafting a robust framework for intellectual property (IP) protection, organizational structure, shielding strategies, and tax planning. Our goal is to build a strong foundation that supports sustainable growth and allows you to approach global expansion in manageable steps.

Phase 2: Implementation & Execution

Once the strategy is in place, we move into the implementation phase, where we bring your expansion plans to life.

This includes setting up new companies in the target jurisdictions, establishing local representation, and ensuring that your business model is sound and scalable in the new market. We also provide ongoing support through comprehensive reporting and maintenance services, ensuring that the new parts of your business are well-managed and aligned with your overall goals.

Our team ensures that you have the necessary local representation and that all operations are effectively integrated, allowing you to focus on growing your business while we handle the complexities of expansion.

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The Value We Add

Our services offer a cost-effective solution that significantly reduces the expenses associated with global expansion, often saving more than 50% compared to using the big four accounting firms or international law firms. With our deep expertise and experience in successfully expanding into markets like the UK, Netherlands, and the US, we bring practical, hands-on guidance tailored to your business needs. By partnering with us as your fractional CFO team, we alleviate the complexities and time constraints of global expansion, allowing you to focus on running your business while we ensure a seamless and efficient transition into new markets.

See how we’ve helped businesses like yours grow and thrive

"We have been operating for over 20 years but our business has really flourished in the last four years – and this has a lot to do with our strategic relationship with Finovate. We started out with their accounting services and expanded into recruitment – we’ve since worked on a number of strategic projects and envision future opportunities to develop with Finovate around data analytics and HR employment law. Finovate took time to get to know our business model and there is no question they add value. Suffice to say I would not hesitate to recommend Finovate to any UK small to medium business."

- Lisa Gardshol

The Savanna

"Finovate's fractional CFO offering was instrumental in helping us commercialise our idea and build a financial model that demonstrated its commercial viability. They also assisted us in raising the startup capital we needed to get off the ground. Currently, they continue to support us in Exco meetings, ensuring that our big deals and decisions are structured in a commercially viable way, allowing us to offer great value to our clients while maintaining healthy cash flow."

- Carel Strydom

HireJustNow

"We started our online subscription business pre-covid (before Brexit) and were struggling to make the concept work – Finovate helped us pull back, restructure and reassess the business model, then slowly rebuild. We found their approach to budgeting and setting new financial targets refreshing. This is a key partnership for us and we would be happy referring Finovate to other like-minded businesses."

- Lisa Gardshol

M-eat Biltong Ltd

"Our business is a simple property business (warehousing) and we just wanted a relatively basic level of financial support. We were referred to Finovate after finding many local accountancy firms way too expensive. For us, Finovate doesn't over-complicate things – they use systems like Xero, everything is cloud based, we keep things tight – our finance function is fairly simple and Finovate are totally aligned with us. They’ve made our finance function a breeze to manage."

- Lisa Gardshol

SIGA Properties Ltd

"Finovate is a key global scaling partner to the Paytec and Zeam Money businesses. What started off as a fractional CFO offering, expanded to become a full-service FinOps provider in Sub-Saharan Africa, the EU and the UK. Finovate provides a comprehensive global overview of our business, and regularly provides practical- and innovative solutions that reaches far beyond accounting services – just what you need to run a global business. We entrusted them with board seats as long-term partners."

- Danie van Tonder

Paytec

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