Thomas Grigg

Thomas Grigg is a Managing Director in FTI Consulting’s Corporate Finance, Office of the CFO Solutions practice and is based in Los Angeles. Mr. Grigg has more than 15 years of global experience in financial, performance, transactions and turnaround initiatives across a variety of industries. He is an expert in interim management, value creation and strategic initiatives, accounting and reporting, corporate restructuring, financial forecasting and project management.

Mr. Grigg specializes in assisting public and private companies with interim management, finance function stand-up, strategic business reorganization, systems implementation, the development, assessment and improvement of business planning and reporting, working capital financial modelling and analysis, and finance transformation.

Most recently, Mr. Grigg led the post-transaction finance function stand-up and execution of value creation plan for a global engineering business. In this role, he led the development of long-range plan, liquidity management, reporting, forecasting, accounting and operating model.

Mr. Grigg has also recently led various finance transformation initiatives at private equity-sponsored West Coast technology businesses. In these roles, he developed capital allocation strategy and managed the integration of new software systems, supply chain processes and operational efficiencies. He has built tech-enabled financial models used in a variety of applications, including Monte Carlo scenario analysis, driver-based rolling forecasts, integrated three-way long-range plan, liquidity forecasting, management and stakeholder reporting.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Grigg assisted clients in a variety of roles in Australia. Mr. Grigg’s roles included drafting strategic business plan reviews, asset realizations, company valuations, cash flow forecasting and other financial analysis.

Relevant Experience:

• $1 billion PE-backed engineering services: strategic CFO support standing up the finance function and executing value creation plan post transaction for a global engineering and wastewater services business; focus on developing strategic plan, liquidity management, operations and systems
• $3 billion public manufacturer: interim VP of Finance leading the finance function transformation including developing automated reporting, optimized global chart of accounts, integrated driver-based forecast and enterprise performance management (“EPM”) system implementation
• $1 billion public biotech: led strategic turnaround and build-out of core finance function capabilities across master data, business planning and reporting; drove reduction of annual cash burn by $600 million and effectuated a transaction to a Fortune 500 purchaser
• $1 billion PE-backed home builder: led the public company readiness stand up initiatives, including developing and executing the roadmap from the private to public transition for the public company-grade finance function
• $1 billion private tech: interim financial planning and analysis (“FP&A”) focused on building tech enabled financial models used in a variety of applications, including driver based rolling forecasts, integrated three-way long-range plan, liquidity forecasting, management and stakeholder reporting