Commercial Skills for Finance Professionals

11 December 2008
London

How to become a true business partner.

Who will benefit?

Financial managers wanting to gain a seat at the business table by expanding their role from analysts to business experts.

What you will gain

A foundation for the other competencies, in addition to accounting knowledge, needed for the transformation, including:

• Presentation skills: how you get your message across
• Strategic vision: using financial structures to identify opportunities, understand risk and add value
• Networking: using connections both within and outside the company
• Influence: engaging with and influencing senior management

Course outline

This one-day workshop will focus on the evolving role of the finance department, from custodians of the company’s finances to business partners who are totally integrated within the strategic direction of the business.

Programme

• Personality and Behaviour
  Practical tools that describe how we are ‘wired’. Understanding yourself and others will enable a better business interaction
• Interpersonal Skills
  The attributes of a successful finance team and how you measure up against this template. The interpersonal skills required to develop internal and external relationships
• Risk Management
  Proactively defining business risk in terms of business plans and financial performance. Understanding your ‘risk score’ and critical success factors
  Information Delivery
• Being able to present and communicate financial information in a way that is effective, precise and memorable is a vital skill. Breaking down the barriers created by financial terminology will be addressed
• Good to Great
  The ingredients of a ‘great’ business and the vital role the finance team can play in delivering this vision

Trainer

George Fildes FCMA, MBA, FCM

This course is held by CIMA and endorsed by ACT

For more information contact: mmcdonnell@treasurers.org