Effective Presentation Skills for Finance Professionals

This Gulf Rowad Effective Presentation Skills for Finance Professionals training course is presented in a highly participative workshop format using case studies and practical examples. The participants will have the opportunity to develop practical skills for preparing financial presentations and practice making financial presentations in a safe environment. It also includes practical hands-on sessions to demonstrate the use of Excel and Powerpoint for presentations.

The Gulf Rowad Effective Presentation Skills for Finance Professionals training course explains and practically demonstrates how to prepare for, plan, and deliver financial presentations with real impact to internal and external audiences.

By the end of this GLOMACS training course, the participants will learn to:

• Exploit the potential of Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics (BA)
• Harness Excel’s powerful analysis functions to develop dashboards
• Produce clear reports and business insights using Excel and Powerpoint
• Successfully integrate financial and non-financial performance measures
• Identify the needs of the audience when making financial presentations
• Use the proven rules of effective communication to get the message across
• Make presentations with real impact to internal and external audiences
• Handle difficult questions and challenging people in your presentations

Effective communication of key financial insights is at the heart of effective performance management, those employed in any aspect of business finance and accounting across the organisation should attend. 

This GLOMACS training course is a suitably wide range of professionals but will significantly benefit:

• Tax Auditors
• Tax Managers
• Investment Analysts
• Senior Finance Managers
• Management Accountants
• Strategic Planning Managers
• Planning and Budgeting Managers
• Mergers and Acquisitions Managers
• Capital Investment and Project Team Members
• Finance Directors and Chief Financial Officers

Organisational Impact

The organisation will gain through the development and application of Finance capabilities and skills in key areas of exploiting the potential of BI and BA systems, producing business insights and communicating and supporting key organisational decision-makers, specifically, benefits will include: 

• Improved exploitation of BI systems and BA techniques
• Enhanced use of key business performance measures
• More significant business insights from better interpretation and presentation of financial data
• Better integration of financial and non-financial performance measures
• Raised levels of professionalism and communication skills in the Finance team
• The improved human talent pool for internal succession planning
• More effective communication with internal and external stakeholders

Personal Impact

The participants will learn the principles and practical skills to improve communication with non-financial managers and make effective financial presentations to them, specific capabilities and skills include: 

• Ability to exploit developments in BI and BA
• Skills in the rapid development of dashboards in Excel
• How to link financial measures to strategic organisational goals
• Using Excel and Powerpoint to produce professional standard presentations
• How to communicate effectively with non-financial managers
• Designing and writing business reports with impact
• Planning and making confident presentations
• Understanding audiences and dealing with difficult questions