Your Cash Cycle Has Outgrown Gut Feel.
Industry-agnostic liquidity management, GBS build-out, and responsible technology advisory for businesses ready to turn cash into a managed advantage.
Looking for a First-Class GBS Consultant?
The Problem
The cash cycle is bigger than collections.
Growth creates complexity. More customers. More invoices. More vendors. More systems. More people. More decisions.
Eventually, the informal processes and spreadsheets that once worked begin creating delays, blind spots, unnecessary working capital, and operational drag.
Clear Cycle Advisors helps finance and operations leaders regain control of the entire cash cycle—from inflows to outflows to treasury.
We bring an operator’s perspective to liquidity, process, organization, technology, and transformation.
The Diagnostic
Two weeks. One complete view of your cash cycle.
Before recommending technology, restructuring a team, or redesigning a process, we first understand how cash actually moves through your business.
INFLOWS
Quote-to-Cash, billing, collections and cash application
OUTFLOWS
Procure-to-Pay, working capital and vendor processes.
TREASURY
Forecasting, liquidity planning and treasury operations.
The Cash Cycle
Liquidity doesn’t belong to one department. It is created—or lost—across the entire cash cycle.
Services
- Quote-to-Cash Optimization
- Quote-to-Cash Transformation
- Billing & Collections Performance
- Cash Application
- Dispute & Deduction Management
Services
- Procure-to-Pay Optimization
- Working Capital Balance Management
- Process & Controls Optimization
- Supplier Process Improvement
- Payment Process Advisory
Services
- Cash Forecasting
- Liquidity Planning
- Treasury Operations Advisory
- Cash Visibility
- Treasury Process & Controls
GBS Build-Out
Build the function your growth requires
Global Business Services should not simply be a lower-cost version of what you already have.
Done well, GBS creates a scalable operating model with clearer accountability, stronger controls, better processes, and the right balance of people, technology, and location.
Clear Cycle Advisors helps organizations design and build GBS functions around the way the business actually operates.
Tooling, Technology & Responsible AI
Technology should improve control—not create another problem.
The right technology can remove manual work, improve visibility, and accelerate the cash cycle. The wrong technology simply automates a bad process
Tooling & Platform Advisory
Choose technology for the business you have—and the business you are becoming.
We evaluate AR, AP, treasury, automation, and workflow platforms based on actual scale, complexity, economics, integration requirements, and operating maturity.
Responsible AI Advisory
Use AI where it creates leverage. Keep people where judgment matters.
We help organizations determine where AI agents and automation can genuinely improve Q2C, P2P, and treasury workflows—and where human oversight, controls, or judgment must remain.
The Solution > Fractional Leadership
Sometimes the function doesn’t need another consultant. It needs a leader.
Our fractional leadership model puts experienced finance and operations leadership inside the organization while the function is being built, transformed, or stabilized.
We can work alongside your existing team, lead a transformation, support implementation, manage a technology transition, or provide interim leadership while you build the permanent organization.
Who This Is For?
Growth changes everything
You have outgrown the processes that got you here.
Your business is too complex for spreadsheets and workarounds, but you don’t need—and probably cannot justify—a Fortune 500 transformation program.
Clear Cycle Advisors works with growing businesses, finance organizations, and GBS leaders that need practical improvements without unnecessary complexity.
Credibility
Operators Advising Operators
After three decades leading global finance operations at S&P Global, Ian Thompson founded Clear Cycle Advisors to bring practical operating experience to organizations that need to improve how their finance functions work.
Today, Clear Cycle Advisors brings that experience to businesses that need clarity, control, and practical execution—not another theoretical transformation plan
What Our Clients Say
Insights
Clear thinking about cash, finance and transformation.
The Clear Cycle Dispatch explores the issues behind liquidity, finance operations, technology, AI, GBS, and the decisions finance leaders face as their organizations grow.
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Tariff Reconciliation and Reimbursement: What AR and Q2C Teams Need to Do Now
How your company billed tariff costs in 2025 determines your legal and operational exposure today. If you separately itemized surcharges rather than embedding them in price, customers have a basis to claim reimbursement from you, and that awareness is spreading quickly through the buyer community.
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The ROI of AI Orchestration
In Issues 23 and 25, I wrote about outcome based contracting and the measurement discipline it requires from GBS. The attribution gap, the baseline problem, and the governance work that goes into verifying what a platform actually delivered versus everything else happening in the business at the same time.
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The Conditions for Establishing a Successful GBS
In Issue 22 I wrote about why PE backed companies consistently underdeliver on GBS transformation. The constraints they face are often insurmountable . Compressed hold periods, LP pressure for early wins, talent gaps in their portfolio companies, and consulting incentives that favor structural decisions over root cause work.
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