Which metrics should you track, to run your agency as efficiently as possible?
In this episode we speak with Richard Brett. Rich is a seasoned FinOps professional with 15+ years of experience, including a decade in the agency world. Rich has played a key role in scaling agencies, setting up financial processes, and supporting sustainable growth.
Rich will take us into a deeper dive of agency finances, starting with revenue recognition – recording revenue when it’s earned, not when payment is received – and explain why this is so important.
Next, we’ll discuss key metrics and the kind of decisions you’ll be able to make using each:
- Utilization: see how effectively your team’s time is allocated to billable work, helping identify resource optimization opportunities.
- Recovery: shows the actual revenue generated from billable hours worked, highlighting areas of over-servicing or underpayment by clients.
- Billable paid: shows the proportion of billable work that is successfully paid for, helping assess the financial health of client engagements.
- Future month work value: projects the expected revenue from booked hours in upcoming work, allowing for proactive resource and budget management.
Finally, Rich will tell us 5 ways we can influence margins through agency rate cards.
Rich now runs his own consultancy, Rich Brett FinOps, providing bespoke financial services to agencies.
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