Southern Cross Advisers Ltd (UK) provides economic, financial, legal and management
advice to governments and other clients. The company has particular expertise in
financial management and other reforms at central government, local government and
sector levels. This includes the diagnosis, design and management of improvements to
financial management, policy development and organisational arrangements in the public
sector.
Southern Cross Advisers’ personnel and associates have:
- Headed a government’s Finance ministry.
- Led large-scale changes in public sector planning, budgeting and operations to
significantly improve fiscal control, efficiency and effectiveness.
- Managed complex organisational changes including divesting and merging large-scale
functions.
- Designed and implemented new budgeting and planning systems at the
whole of
government level
and within organisations.
- Managed multi-billion dollar delivery functions in the public sector.
- Held positions as CEOs, senior managers, chairman of public sector boards, and
secretary of public sector boards.
- Provided advice to the World Bank on its institutional reforms and advice on many
World Bank and other donor projects.
- Worked with governments in over 30 countries in Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Asia, Africa,
South America, the Caribbean, Australasia and the Pacific advising on improvements to
their public management structures, processes and practices.
With this experience, Southern Cross Advisers is very well placed to work with clients
to ensure that the conditions for making improvements in performance are well understood,
that appropriate processes and tools are applied, and that relationships are managed well.