Accounting compliance and reporting

The finance function of the future — experienced professionals and leading-class technology, backed by a global network, revealing strategic insights into what’s possible. It’s available to your organization in a flexible and scalable model.

Your business challenge

Businesses today face a technical and regulatory landscape that is more complex than ever, upended by talent shortages and evolving risks in markets across the globe. Finance leaders are under pressure to generate higher returns and pursue strategic growth while managing the costs and challenges of finance and compliance functions.

As a result, many companies are implementing a new delivery model, combining the strength and standardization of central delivery teams with dedicated local accounting and tax professionals where required to ensure global consistency and quality across the enterprise.

Key features

EY finance managed services teams are focused on finance and accounting matters. With over 150 years of experience and a broad global network of varying disciplines, we understand how these functions can become hubs of insight — into what’s possible, not just what happened. Our finance managed services teams connect you to the finance function of the future, with the flexibility and agility you require.

EY people take the lessons learned from working with large and up-and-coming companies globally to invest in a finance and tax service that fits your needs, wherever you are on your business life cycle journey. You can expect more, and get more, without distraction from your other priorities. EY finance managed services teams address three key concerns — talent, risk, and data and technology — that ultimately create a path toward greater value creation.

Key benefits

It can be a struggle to attract or retain finance and tax talent.

We bring experienced professionals with deep roots in audit, finance and tax to the right location to serve you.
Our sourcing model is flexible to manage fluctuating staffing needs.
We help accelerate innovation within your organization by upskilling internal teams and freeing up management time so you can focus on driving strategic value.
Forward-thinking functions need access to the right financial and data-driven insights that can inform strategic decision-making. Companies that are delving into merger and acquisition activity — including carveouts, acquisitions and joint ventures — require agile thinking and processes.

We keep up with evolving requirements (e.g., Base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) and environmental, social and governance (ESG) to help you understand the impact of regulatory and compliance changes and proactively manage risk.
Staying current in a rapidly changing technology environment can be an enormous task on its own, and many companies say they do not have the resources to keep up.

We have invested in secure, leading-class technology and standard processes, to give you greater visibility and oversight.
Our insights enable us to help you drive further efficiencies and transformation.
You will have more access to data analytics and support for emerging technologies (such as intelligent automation) for greater transparency and informed decision-making.

Value

Amid tight budgets and other strategic needs, finance and tax functions get tagged as a business cost — one that is important for fulfilling regulatory and compliance needs but not for the overall health and direction of an organization. Many organizations have lost focus on the value their finance and tax functions can bring when supported by standardized and integrated operating systems and experienced professionals. More than a support function — EY finance managed services teams offer you the talent resources of a true business collaborator, who brings agility, strategic insight and innovation. With our finance managed services professionals and our focus on providing approaches that yield efficiencies for your organization — you are given the capability to do so much more.

EY teams stay on top of local regulatory changes and work closely with central coordination teams with one technology platform and point of contact. The broader EY global organization can help you unlock strategic value with data as an enabler. Moving from administrative to transformative was never so easy.

Your Situation: You are facing an expected or unexpected challenge and need a solution immediately.

Your head of accounting, chief financial officer, head of payroll administration or one of their respective deputies is not available (e.g. quit, is on maternity leave, medical absence, special company leave or is fully occupied with another internal project).
Your company is growing in an exceptional high pace and you want to ensure that your company continues to operate optimally.
Your company faces significant seasonal peaks.
You have an exceptional internal project to complete which requires specific technical skills and/or resources that are not available at your company.
You want to ensure your accounting, finance and payroll departments continue to operate efficiently until a permanent solution is found.

Our Services: Fully integrated in your organization we step in for all or only for part of your company’s accounting, finance or payroll functions. Our suite of services include:

We identify your needs and provide customized, effective services so your company can operate optimally.
We define the roles of your team, and of our professionals who are working for you.
We use a special methodology that enables us to determine if our professionals are doing their jobs efficiently.
We critically review, based on our work, the way your finance and payroll operations are organized and suggest improvements.
We formalize the methods used and transfer our knowledge to the relevant employees in your company.
Bookkeeping is part of the wider Accounting Compliance & Reporting (ACR) services. Bookkeeping primarily involves the preparation of the day-to-day financial accounting, including the required reconciliations. This can also include the preparation of a trial balance and General and Accounting ledger reports, which are the basis for Financial Statement Close Process (FSCP) services. We can also support you with on-site bookkeeping services and, if we do not perform any preparation activities, we can review your companies’ bookkeeping for taxonomy compliance. The above may include postings (otherwise known as ledger entries).

Overall, we help your company with the financial accounting of transactions, specifically with the following processes:

Record to report entries
Purchase to pay
Order to Cash
Cash or Bank payment bookings

If you are posting all transactions, we can review all financial transactions in the accounting system. This includes the listing of all journal entries and general ledger overviews.
Statutory Reporting services are part of the wider Accounting Compliance & Reporting (ACR) services. Statutory Reporting involves the preparation of required statutory financial statements or other financial information. This may comprise a complete set of financial statements, or, as required, less comprehensive financial information based on Swiss requirements. This service is always based on the availability of your company’s final trial balance. Statutory reporting services can also include:

Preparation of a group reporting package in accordance with Swiss GAAP or IFRS.
Preparation of supporting information required by your entity’s external or internal auditors, and liaising with the external auditors on the year-end statutory audit.

We can prepare interim financial statements, merger balance sheets, financial statements in case of liquidation and other Swiss required financial compliance reports.

Overall, we help you comply with Swiss regulatory requirements, which mandate the periodic reporting of financial and non-financial information. The reporting form and content includes Annual Statutory Financial Statements with a balance sheet, income statement, notes and disclosures.
Your Situation:

Your CFO is concentrating on a restructuring project (e.g., merger, acquisition or spin-off). Due to the exceptional assignment and the multi-disciplinary skills needed, you are facing a personnel bottleneck.

You want to strengthen your team in order to meet deadlines without compromising on quality.
You want to utilize new skills that your team does not yet possess.

Preparatory assessment:

We evaluate the operational, accounting, tax and financial circumstances.
We help define the optimum methodical approach.
We simulate the balance sheet after restructuring measures to show the potential tax and accounting impact.
We help show the accounting effects of the suggested measures.

Preparation and implementation:

We identify and plan for consequences related to legal aspects, social insurance obligations, tax matters, legal and financial aspects.
We support the working group that determines the effects of changes in your accounting and finance department.
We prepare and check the necessary accounting entries with your representatives.
We prepare interim financial statements
Financial Statement Close Process (FSCP) services are part of the wider Accounting Compliance & Reporting (ACR) services. FSCP services primarily involve preparing a final trial balance, starting with either your entity’s underlying accounting records or a preliminary trial balance. As part of the FSCP services we also prepare the underlying reconciliations and other breakdowns (e.g., tangible fixed assets depreciation schemes or bank reconciliations) and the year-end/financial reporting period journal entries overview.

We help you in the process of closing the financial accounts at the end of the financial year. This can include the following activities:

Preparing or assisting your entity with closing your Group/Swiss accounting records and producing a trial balance
Reconciling the accounting records and identifying adjusting entries required to prepare the statutory financial statements or other financial information

Working with Statutory Reporting: If the accounting records are maintained using the financial reporting framework of the group, and not in your entity’s Swiss financial reporting framework, we can perform Group-to-Swiss GAAP bridging with in-depth knowledge of US GAAP, IFRS and Swiss GAAP.

Working with Tax: Collecting data for the tax compliance work and for the preparation of the tax provision for the statutory financial statements.

Trust is down to people, how they deliver on their promises and the reliability of tehir advice. I commit to select a team based on the trust that I have on their ability to reliably deliver and exceed client expectations.

Juan Leston

Partner, Accounting Compliance Reporting Leader | EY Switzerland

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The team

Juan Leston

Partner, Accounting Compliance Reporting Leader | EY Switzerland

Possesses dynamism, daring, and the mediation skills needed for the new economic reality. First and foremost a leader with passion for innovation and teamwork.

Lausanne, CHE

Philipp Kuhli

Partner, Tax Accounting in Financial Services | EY Switzerland

Passionate about Tax Accounting focused on multinational clients. Inspirational leader, optimist. Enthusiastic father and athlete.

Zurich, CHE

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Data and technology

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Lonaed staff (On-site support for your accounting requirements)

Bookkeeping and accounting processes

Statutory reporting services including GAAP conversion

Finance transformation support

Assistance in financial statements close process

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Juan Leston

Philipp Kuhli

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