Course description
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Programme
Success as a CFO is rarely determined by technical ability. Mastery of the technical aspects of finance is a given - what makes the difference is the ability to lead and operate in areas where there is no right answer.
Today's CFOs are expected to play diverse and challenging roles and have the ability to influence and persuade when required. Beyond the traditional role of being a steward and running a tight and efficient finance operation, CFOs now need to help shape overall strategy and direction, instilling a partnering approach and mindset to help other parts of the business perform better. This requires softer skills of dealing with conflicts between stakeholders pragmatically and energising talent within finance to deliver high performance.
For the newly appointed or aspiring CFO, the CFO Programme will empower you to succeed by helping you to map out your future with confidence and expose you to a full range of skills and proven tactics. For the established CFO, it offers a refresher in current best practices, an opportunity to network and interact with peers, and provides valuable insights into a a range of initiatives being deployed to enhance the value they bring to their organisation.
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Who should attend?
Who should attend?
- CFOs from listed and unlisted organisations representing the commercial, financial services, privately-owned and not-for-profit sectors.
- Aspiring finance directors, senior finance executives, controllers as well as non-finance board directors would also benefit from attending this programme.
Training content
Day 1
Day 1 defines the context of the CFO's leadership role: fundamental challenges as well as opportunities with focus on how to adapt your approach, build on strengths, add value.
- Exploring your Stories as CFOs
- Quickly build trust and rapport with your colleagues and the Course Director
- Financial Leadership in Action
- Building internal / external presence with reputation for excellence
- Strategic Alignment
- Aligning the organisation around its strategy with more integrated planning
- Hazards in the Boardroom
Day 2
Day 2 focuses on techniques to drive finance efficiency, create agility, deliver foresight.
- The Influential CFO / Building Relationships
- Beyond Budgeting
- Strategic Budgeting and Business Partnering
- Business Performance and Transformation
- Optimising your business model, improving returns, creating value
- Acquiring commercial insights, gaining trust of main board and line functions
- Unleash the power of Big Data , Data Analytics” and sophisticated software
Day 3
Day 3 focuses on proven strategies to nurture talent. You will also learn about management practices to identify and mitigate emerging business and treasury risks.
- Advancing Finance Capabilities
- Oversight of New and Complex Risks / Crisis Management
- Leading Corporate Treasury
Day 4
- Corporate Finance
- Capitalising on M&A Opportunities
- Corporate Governance
- CFO's role in corporate governance
- Key Elements of Bank Risk Management and Implications for Corporates
- Link between finance and risk management and the impact on bank relations
Day 5
- Business Ethics
- Fraud, Bribery and Corruption
- Bribery and Corruption
- Personal Feedback Session
Costs
Course fee: £5295 + VAT
Certification / Credits
Attend this programme and elevate your understanding of:
- Financial leadership in action that embraces personal and wider risks of the role
- Fostering a winning relationship with the CEO/Board
- Strategic engagement, alignment, goal congruence, delivering concrete outcomes
- Acquiring commercial insights, perspectives that feed into decisions making
- Leading through change, business transformation and performance optimisation
- Communicating business insights, decision choices more succinctly and intelligently
- Embracing the power of digital and associated risks
- Nurturing finance talent and leadership pipeline
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At Euromoney Learning, we understand that learning doesn’t start and end when you leave the classroom. We know that the financial markets never stand still, and that technology has both simplified and added complexity at a break-neck pace. That’s why...
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