KPMG's Finance & Accounting Center of Excellence for Integration & Separation Advisory helps clients effectively manage merger and acquisition transactions by creating value and reducing risk through leading practice integration and separation planning and execution services that span the pre and post deal life cycle.We help CFO's and the Controllership prepare for Day 1 and deliver value after the deal. Leading transformational programs including merger integration, divestitures, finance transformation, shared services, performance improvement, process redesign, financial systems implementation, business process outsourcing, business analytics and performance management. Our team helps clients with operational integration or separation of businesses across all corporate functions to help deliver value in a timely manner. We take an enterprise-wide approach with integration and separation diligence, cost assessments, Day 1 planning and execution, post-close implementation, change management, and performance tracking among other complimentary services. In addition, we assist management teams in developing leading practice playbooks and toolkits which are highly customized and cover all or a portion of the process.