Financial & Tax Advisory
Turning financial complexity into strategic clarity
Overview
Tax and financial complexity should never be a barrier to growth. Our advisory practice combines deep technical expertise with genuine commercial understanding, helping high-growth businesses, family offices, and multinationals navigate the full spectrum of financial and tax challenges — from day-to-day compliance to landmark transactions.
Our Approach
We begin with a comprehensive understanding of your business, ownership structure, and goals. From there, our multidisciplinary team develops integrated strategies that address both immediate compliance needs and long-term optimisation opportunities — across all relevant jurisdictions.
Service Areas
What We Do
Tax Planning & Compliance
End-to-end tax compliance across Nigerian and UK jurisdictions, combined with proactive planning that minimises effective tax rates within applicable law. We handle corporate tax, VAT, withholding tax, and personal tax for founders and executives.
Financial Analysis
Rigorous financial modelling, forecasting, and performance analysis that gives leadership teams the visibility they need to make confident strategic decisions. We translate complex data into clear, actionable insights.
Corporate Restructuring
Group restructuring advisory — from holding company reorganisations and debt restructurings to the tax-efficient separation of business divisions. We manage the full process: design, regulatory filings, and implementation.
Risk Management
Identification, assessment, and mitigation of financial and regulatory risk. We work with boards and audit committees to build robust risk frameworks that protect asset value and satisfy governance requirements.
Cross-border Advisory
Specialised guidance for businesses operating across African and international jurisdictions — covering transfer pricing, permanent establishment risk, treaty planning, and the OECD Pillar Two minimum tax framework.
Transaction Tax
Tax structuring and due diligence for M&A transactions, joint ventures, and fundraising rounds. We ensure deal structures are tax-efficient from day one, and that tax risks are properly understood and priced before signing.
Wealth Management & Estate Planning
Integrated tax and financial planning for high-net-worth individuals, founders, and family offices — including investment structuring, tax-efficient wealth extraction, and cross-border personal tax planning. We also advise on structuring trusts, estates, and inheritance planning, and charitable giving with philanthropic tax benefits.
Payroll Outsourcing
Flexible and streamlined payroll outsourcing services at competitive prices — covering payroll management, employment-related advisory, and compliance. We help you achieve tangible cost savings and increased service performance while freeing your team from administrative burden.
Why GECA
Our Difference
Integrated Expertise
Financial, tax, and legal capabilities in a single practice — one relationship, not three separate engagements.
African Market Depth
Decades of on-the-ground experience across Nigeria, the UK, and 15+ jurisdictions. We know the markets, not just the textbooks.
High Level Attention
Partners and directors lead every engagement. Our clients are never handed to junior staff after the pitch.
Long-Term Partnership
We measure success by client outcomes, not transaction count. Our relationships are built to last across engagements and generations.