The Effective Finance Professional

This Finance & Budgeting training course on The Effective Finance Professional will be structured as a highly participative workshop with formal seminars and interactive practical examples. Relevant case studies and recent research findings will facilitate a thorough understanding of each of the key topics.

By the end of this training course, the participants will be able to:

• Understand how businesses processes and business model are disrupted
• Improve and streamline key Finance processes to gain time savings
• Apply techniques to manage and reduce operating costs
• Use predictive data analytics to improve planning and forecasting
• Apply advances Excel techniques to build business dashboards
• Develop the skills of a Strategic Finance Business Partner

Managers facing the challenges for today’s finance function whose focus is on improving key processes, applying digital techniques in Business Intelligence and transforming the finance team to keep up with the needs of the organisation. 

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

• Budgeting Managers
• Forecasting Managers
• Accounts Payables Team
• Customer Receivables Team
• Work-in-Progress Project Team
• Strategic Planning Team Managers
• Treasury and Investment Managers
• Cost and Management Accountants
• Financial Accounting Team Members
• Finance Professionals in all organisational functions

Organisational Impact

The organisation will gain tangible benefits from time savings and systems improvements through the streamlining of Finance processes. Further real benefits will accrue from improvements in advanced data-driven planning, forecasting, and reporting processes in the Finance function.

Specific organisational benefits will include the participants raised awareness of the potentially disruptive effect of digital developments on business models and the need for greater Finance function effectiveness, specifically in:

• Greater Finance function productivity through process excellence
• Improved data-driven business insights from enhanced analytics
• Support for strategic decision-making from improved cost analysis
• Greater support from high-quality financial reporting
• High-quality insights from data-driven tactical dashboards
• Development of Strategic Finance Business Partner skills

Personal Impact

The participants will benefit directly from the development and enhancement of their professional financial skills in several key areas: 

• Identifying areas of improvement for their finance processes
• Developments in Business Intelligence (BI)
• Using Excel for descriptive and predictive analytics
• Improved skills in planning, forecasting, and reporting
• Building the skills of a Strategic Finance Business Partner
• Practical steps in managing change in the finance function