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Commercial Skills for Finance Professionals Course

  • Duration:1 Day
  • Cost:£539 + VAT
  • Ref:CIMA402

How to become a true business partner

Cost £539.00 Duration 1 day Code CIMA402

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Who is it for

This course is ideal for financial managers wanting to gain a seat at the business table by expanding their role from analyst to business expert.

What is it about

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.

  1. Personality and behaviour
    Practical tools that describe how we are ‘wired’. Understanding yourself and others will enable a better business interaction
  2. 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
  3. Risk management
    Proactively defining business risk in terms of business plans and financial performance. Understanding your ‘risk score’ and critical success factors
  4. 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
  5. Good to great
    The ingredients of a ‘great’ business and the vital role the finance team can play in delivering this vision

THIS COURSE IS RUN BY CIMA MASTERCOURSES


Course Overview

The course covers the following key topics:

  • Personality and behaviour
  • Interpersonal skills
  • Risk management
  • Information delivery
  • Good to great

What will I get out of it?

  • 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
  • Management: motivating and managing the finance team
  • 6 CPD hours (for non-CIMA members)

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CIMA Mastercourses for CPD purposesThis course is accredited for CPD

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