New leadership in Consulting reinforces Mazars' aim to offer strategic and innovative solutions
- Pedro Mendes Silva is the new Head of Consulting at Mazars in Portugal.
- Appointment at a time of investment and reinforcement of skills in consultancy services that help organizations design their strategy, optimize their business and operations, increasing competitiveness in the national and international market.
- The move is in line with the area's strategic growth plan and the strengthening of Mazars' brand awareness.
- Reinforcement of this line of consulting services associated with the opportunities of the alliance with Forvis, growing relevance and mapping of the market.
Lisbon, January 16th: Pedro Mendes Silva, new Head of Consulting at Mazars in Portugal, has been responsible for leading the firm's current service line in the Portuguese market since the beginning of the year. The appointment is part of the investment and strengthening of the skills of the Consulting team and reflects Mazars' objective of helping organizations to design their strategy, optimize their business and operations, increasing competitiveness in the national and international markets.
In a decisive economic moment with disruptive characteristics, Mazars offers strategic and innovative solutions that enable organizations to respond to the different challenges of today, ranging from an increasingly informed and demanding end customer profile, to the disruption of logistics chains, the management of skills gaps in the market and growing pressure on the cost structure.
The reinforced focus on the Consulting service line is aimed at creating a growing positive impact on clients and their business ecosystems, positioning Mazars as “The Smart Choice“.
Mazars seeks to develop relationships of trust based on high standards of quality, seniority and proximity, assuming the essential role of partner to decision-makers in more and more leading companies in Portugal.
The role is also distinguished by the offer made by network The global network of the leading international audit, tax and advisory firm was created with FORVIS, the eighth largest firm in the sector in the US. The global network was announced in November, positioning both firms for sustained global growth by expanding their capabilities to better serve their clients, especially those with international needs.
Designed to be agile, offer consistent service levels and have a global scale to meet the needs of its customers, it operates under a single brand worldwide and is in the world's largest market. top 10 global.
“Mazars can help its clients through projects that respond to the actual problems of the different business areas, through internal skills (local and international) and ensuring an integrated vision and support, through the different areas of activity”, says Mazars' new Head of Consulting in Portugal.
“The consultancy area carries out business and operations optimization and transformation projects in an end-to-end support logic (from concept design to implementation support), especially in the areas of strategy, growth, performance and value preservation/risk management.”, adds Pedro Mendes da Silva.
For his part, Luís Gaspar, Mazars' Country Managing Partner in Portugal, summarizes that the reinforcement of the bet is aimed at “to consolidate the relevant role of this service line in the growth of Mazars” operations in Portugal, ensuring a sustained increase in the volume of business in the Consulting area and with the widely recognized quality standards of the Mazars brand.".
The service line in the Consulting area in Portugal was launched at the beginning of 2020, based on complementary axes of Strategy and Transformation, Organization and Performance, IT and Digital, and followed Mazars' strategy at a global level and in the footsteps of other offices of the firm with a consolidated offer in its portfolio.
Mazars' Consulting area in Portugal is made up of a multidisciplinary team of professionals with a high level of seniority and breadth of skills, experience and know-how, reinforcing most of the classic services typically included in a consulting practice, such as strategy, operations and technology.
In addition, they have a very special focus on increasingly important areas including digital and the associated transformation processes; emerging technologies; sustainability, the environment and social responsibility, including the practical need to guarantee human dignity through inclusion and respect for diversity.
About Pedro Mendes Silva
Pedro Mendes Silva has more than 20 years' experience in strategy and operations consulting in a Big 4 context. He led the non-financial management consulting division at KPMG, focusing on the public administration, health, infrastructure, energy, retail and industry sectors.
He has experience in strategy and operations, business and digital transformation and financial management and cost reduction programs. He has successfully built up a large client base in Portugal and Angola. Her international experience is not limited to Angola, having worked with other offices for international clients (Saudi Arabia, Germany, among others). She worked at Capgemini Portugal as Manager of the Consulting Services Unit. He has a degree in Management Informatics from IPA and a post-graduate degree in Management & Business Consulting from ISEG.
About Mazars
Mazars is a partnership an international integrated firm specializing in audit, accounting, consulting, tax and legal services*. Operating in over 95 countries and territories worldwide, we draw on the expertise of more than 47,000 professionals - 30,000+ in the UK. partnership integrated Mazars and 17,000+ via the Mazars North America Alliance - to support clients of all sizes at every stage of their development.
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Mazars and FORVIS, one of the 10 largest firms in the US, will create a global network from June 1, 2024. The new network will operate under a single global brand, ‘Forvis Mazars’. Both brands have been protected and secured. Mazars will hold the presidency of the network for the first three-year term.
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