MCA’s experience includes Board accountability for development and review of corporate strategies. We will help you consider your vision, performance, and industry benchmarking to define the status quo. This is contextualised by analysis of key macroeconomic factors, product markets (including energy transition impacts), competitor landscape, and political and regulatory environments. Company-specific opportunities and threats (asset base, balance sheet, and capital market expectations) are then considered to develop short, medium and long-term strategic recommendations. These will typically cover optimisation of existing assets, corporate growth, ESG, and capital management.

Below the corporate level, strategies are also essential for key business segments and assets. Asset strategies provide the critical context for business plans, workforce plans, and budgets. We can help develop strategies that consider future options, decision points, threats, opportunities, and off-ramps to ensure your organisation is as clear as it can be on the current status, pending milestones, and expected future outcomes for your core assets.

In addition to your corporate strategy, funding strategies are critical. Forecast corporate scenarios vary widely due to the inherent uncertainty in your assets/markets and the macro-environment. Potential funding requirements therefore also vary widely, and prudent planning is required to ensure that you are not caught short by unanticipated funding requirements that result in excessive funding costs on the one hand, and that you do not accumulate excess cash without a clear capital management plan and/or market message on the other. MCA’s extensive analytical and funding experience can help your Treasury team prepare funding strategies that consider future cash flow uncertainty, available funding sources and costs, existing covenants, rating agency expectations and metrics, and corporate credit objectives.