CrossCountry Consulting – Helping organizations navigate pressing business challenges and improving operations and enabling future growth

CrossCountry Consulting is a trusted business advisory firm that provides customized finance, accounting, human capital management, risk, operations and technology consulting services to leading organizations facing complex change. The company partners with its clients to help them navigate pressing business challenges and achieve goals related to improving operations, minimizing risks and enabling future growth.

Making data and technology secure, trusted, and resilient

Accounting & Risk Solutions: Operational demands and regulatory complexity siphon time away from greater value creation. As a trusted partner to private equity firms, CFOs, and corporate leaders, they enable the finance function to gain better control of today’s accounting and risk challenges while capitalizing on tomorrow’s opportunities. That means faster ROI and greater risk resiliency in every decision you make – starting now. Implementing existing and emerging accounting standards strategically requires advanced expertise, time, and resources organizations often lack. CrossCountry goes further to prepare you for the future by analyzing and documenting complex transactions and assessing the changes accounting standards bring to your financial reporting, operational processes, and technology stack. As policy and accounting standards evolve alongside increasingly complex business models, CFOs and Controllers face difficult demands running the daily finance function while focusing on future organizational needs and improving financial performance. Their agile technical accounting and financial reporting experts cut through US GAAP and IFRS regulatory complexity with scalable solutions to enable you to make faster, strategic decisions on standards implementation, policy analysis, and process design.

Risk & Compliance: Striking the balance between risk mitigation and risk-taking is at the core of a successful, efficient risk management and compliance framework. They optimize risk management programs to meet all business needs now and in the future, including satisfying complex compliance requirements and guiding corporate strategy. Risk management programs must keep pace with changes in technology, regulation, and economic drivers. CrossCountry helps organizations move from document-centric to data-centric programs using automation, analytics, and other tools to innovate, automate, and optimize risk management across their entire organization. Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) holistically benefits the entire organization without silos or redundancies. They enable you to create a consistent, enforceable approach to risk management across various groups. A right-sized compliance program does more than “check a box.” They design trusted, risk-adapted programs custom to your unique needs as they evolve over time.

ESG Reporting: Enhancing and accelerating your firm’s ESG reporting capabilities requires expert strategy, implementation, and analysis from top accounting and risk management practitioners. Backed by leading industry and technology practices, they prepare you for the wave of current and emerging ESG disclosure requirements. With greater insights into how and what competitors across different segments report on, you can properly align with relevant standards and remain ahead of emerging compliance requirements. Using the latest visualization tools, automations, and integrations, they help your organization streamline reporting to deliver faster, cleaner, aesthetically appealing ESG insights. With enhanced visibility into current and projected metrics, you gain the backend architecture necessary for controlled and repeatable ESG reporting.

OCFO Roadmap & Operating Model: Tasked with enabling growth during economic uncertainty while also needing to develop new talent and lead strategic transformations, the Office of the CFO needs an operating framework that is scalable, efficient, and future ready. Whether it’s a large end-to-end finance transformation or an enhancement of a single process, they partner with you to improve the efficiency and value the finance function delivers to the organization. CroossCountry’s multi-disciplinary transformation experts review people, processes, technology, and data within the finance organization to identify gaps preventing them from meeting business goals. Working with finance leaders, they equip the OCFO with the organizational models, enterprise roadmaps, and automation strategies necessary to drive efficiency, scale, and growth. To remain responsive to market conditions and competitive opportunities, the OCFO must collaborate effectively and in full alignment with other business functions. Utilizing leading project management methodologies and platforms, they ensure all stakeholders understand and buy-in to transformation while creating a framework to make decisions quickly, share successes, mitigate risks, and streamline dependencies.

Enterprise Performance Management: As CFOs gain greater insight into and responsibility for key business drivers impacting the financial health of the company, they require a more refined process architecture and technology infrastructure. CrossCountry Consultancy builds Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) systems that transform data management, reporting, and analytics while enabling CFOs and their teams to engage the rest of the organization to make cross-functional, forward-looking decisions. All functions must be invested in planning and analytics, from sales, operations, and HR to marketing, finance, and IT (known as xP&A). They establish an effective xP&A operating model within your organization so that real-time decisions can be made based on an integrated, automated platform, making reporting, data management, and collaboration seamless. For maximum EPM value, start with the end in mind. They develop your data requirements based on identified reporting needs, and then create an actionable journey to the desired EPM architecture, including data flows, integrations, and reporting capabilities per business function. The outcome is a best-in-class Finance master data management capability and effective internal controls throughout the xP&A function.

Erik Linn | Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Erik brings almost 20 years of experience founding, leading and growing consulting companies. He has a consistent track record of assembling world class leadership teams, serving high profile clients and scaling businesses. Erik is very passionate that CrossCountry’s employees and clients get a “better experience.”

Previously, Erik served as Managing Director and Practice Leader for Navigant Consulting (now Guidehouse) Finance and Accounting Solutions practice, which he co-led with Dave Kay. There, he was responsible for leading the company’s strategic planning and market positioning, acquisition investment strategy and integration, and business development activities related to the financial services industry. Additionally, Erik served on Navigant’s Management Committee where he advised executive leadership on strategic and operational issues facing the firm. Prior to joining Navigant, Erik was founder and CEO of Capital Advisory Services, LLC. He led CapAdvisory through five years of tremendous growth before selling his firm to Navigant in 2004.

Erik began his career at Arthur Andersen in the firm’s Audit and Business Advisory division. He received a BBA in Accounting from James Madison University.

“Powered by an ecosystem of partners, we transform the core systems and processes that drive your business while aligning talent and resources toward greater agility, efficiency, and scalability.”