Make finance work for your business.
Financial controlling
Make reporting more reliable, efficient and useful.
Support in developing closing, management reporting, consolidation, controls and other financial controlling processes — from identifying bottlenecks to designing practical ways of working.
Finance development
Build finance processes that work as the business grows.
Practical support for finance process development, systems, automation and operating models. From reviewing the current setup to designing and implementing better ways of working.
Forecasting & performance
Turn financial information into better business decisions.
Development and sparring around budgeting, forecasting, profitability, KPIs and management reporting, with a focus on making financial information genuinely useful for running the business.
Training & sparring
Strengthen financial thinking and capabilities.
Tailored training and sparring for finance professionals, teams and business leaders in areas such as controlling, reporting, forecasting, accounting and finance development.
From accounting detail to business decisions.
I’m Lauri Loikkanen, a finance professional with more than ten years of experience across accounting, controlling, FP&A, international group finance and finance-function development.
My experience ranges from hands-on accounting and statutory reporting to group reporting, forecasting, finance systems, commercial analysis and leading finance operations. I’m particularly interested in making finance more efficient, scalable and useful for business decisions.
MSc Accounting · KLT · TNT · International finance
Short notes on finance, controlling and better ways of working.
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Growth looks different when you understand the margin
Not all revenue is worth the same. Revenue growth is easy to celebrate. More customers, more sales, a bigger top line. All visible signs the business is heading somewhere good. What revenue doesn’t tell you is whether that growth is worth anything. Two customers can bring in identical revenue and look nothing alike underneath. One…
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Good finance reduces uncertainty and improves decisions
Finance is sometimes expected to provide certainty. A precise budget. An accurate forecast. A clear answer on what next year will look like. Businesses just don’t work that way. Customers change their plans, recruitment takes longer than expected, costs shift, projects slip, and sales opportunities appear and disappear on their own schedule. The further ahead…
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How I would build finance for a 20-40 meur international company
A 30 meur company doesn’t need the finance department of a 300 meur company. But it has usually outgrown whatever setup worked when the business was much smaller, and that gap is where things get messy. This is an interesting stage for finance. There’s enough complexity now that accounting alone isn’t enough. Several legal entities,…
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Doing nothing is also a decision
Change is often seen as the risky option. A new system costs money. Hiring increases the cost base. Changing prices might upset customers. A new service or market might not work out. So keeping things as they are can easily feel like the safe choice. But doing nothing has a risk as well. Costs increase.…
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If a number doesn’t lead to action, it has little value
Finance produces plenty of reports. But producing a report and helping someone run a business are two different things. A traditional financial report is very good at telling what has already happened. Revenue decreased, costs increased, margin was below target. The obvious question is: so what? When looking at financial reporting, I tend to come…
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Automate or simplify first?
Finance processes often accumulate work gradually. A new report is requested. Another control is added. Someone builds an Excel file to bridge two systems. A reconciliation is introduced after a problem. A manual adjustment becomes part of the monthly routine. Individually, each addition can make perfect sense. Years later, the process may contain dozens of…
Speaking &
events
Yritysneuvontapäivä 2026 · Suomen Taloushallintoliitto
Speaker on “Numeroista näkemyksiin” (From numbers to insights) — turning accounting data into practical decision support.
11 May 2026 · View event →