Creating a World-Class Finance Function
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What is a world-class finance function, and why should you want to create one in your workplace? This course will help you to implement best practice in finance and accounting to optimise quality and efficiency, and to provide the best possible service to your stakeholders.
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This course will enable you to
- Recognise what makes a world-class finance function
- Meet the needs of all stakeholders efficiently
- Create processes that add value
- Provide effective operational control
- Embrace change and steer the finance function forward
- Use the simple 'assess-plan-do-review' framework to drive continuous improvement
- Be an inspirational finance leader
About the course
What is a world-class finance function, and how do you create one in your workplace? Establishing a world-class finance function requires implementing best practices within the finance and accounting team to optimise quality and efficiency, putting processes in place to provide the best possible service to internal and external stakeholders, and cultivating a high performing team that works together to deliver value to the organisation.
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Contents
- Defining "world-class"
- What does world class look like?
- A world-class finance function
- World-class characteristics
- Overcoming the obstacles
- Understand the barriers
- The future of finance
- The role of AI
- Can AI help accountants?
- Future finance skill
- The right mindset
- The agile accountant
- The ethics of tech evolution
- Prioritising stakeholders
- Meet the stakeholders
- Pleasing everyone
- Managing stakeholders
- Stakeholder analysis
- Seven simple steps
- Data is the key
- Managing data
- Value-adding finance processes
- What is a business process?
- Agents of change
- The benefits of failing
- Finance business partnering
- The right priorities
- Maintaining control
- The finance function as controller
- Exerting control three ways
- Runners, repeaters, and rarities
- Which controls to apply where
- Your finance function toolkit
- Next steps
- Leadership goals
- Creating the right culture
- Keeping control during change
- Regular check-ups
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Reviews
Andrew L
26 Feb 2025
26 Feb 2025
Really clear and easy to understand.
Mark A
13 Feb 2025
13 Feb 2025
This is a great module and I am going to apply my learnings It is very clear and structures and flows nicely
Allan Y
02 Jan 2025
02 Jan 2025
Perhaps not so relevant to smaller businesses with limited finance department resources but still good to know and understand what "world-class" looks like and requires. Some useful tools to use for evaluation.
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