Nailing Your First Quarter as CFO
What you'll learn
- Recognize the competencies of the modern CFO.
- Recognize the maturity level of the finance function.
- Identify strategies useful for developing strategic alignment within the finance function.
Requirements
- No advanced preparation or prerequisites are needed for this course but basic finance leadership experience is essential.
Description
In this course we look at getting started in a new CFO role. Whether this is your first appointment as CFO or perhaps you are transitioning to a new CFO role at another organization, we look at different approaches for your first 100 days.
We begin with a profile of the modern CFO, that is, what you need to bring to the organization. From there, we look at team building principles and using proven tools to help you assess the existing finance function against best practices. We use a strategic approach to developing an overarching mission and value statement for finance to bring context to specific action plans. We look at structuring the finance function within the organization context to optimize and balance responsiveness to stakeholders with the need for control. Finally, we look at change management principles to help you initiate your first major project.
Who this course is for:
- Anyone in Finance, accounting, or related fields.
- Anyone interested in Leadership.
Instructors
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Illumeo, incorporated in 2009, is revolutionizing the hide-bound world of corporate learning. Illumeo works with corporate professionals and organizations of all sizes to build the skills and capabilities that help everyone be an expert at their job.
Based in Silicon Valley, CA, Illumeo serves thousands of corporations and corporate professionals across Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Sales and Marketing. The platform offers assessments, industry-benchmarked competency analyses, hundreds of expert-developed courses, collaborative tools, and the ability for companies to self-publish internal courses that promote institutional knowledge retention and dissemination.
Illumeo is the place for expertise management and we are dedicated to the proposition that everyone can be an expert at their job.
- 4.2 Instructor Rating
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A financial executive and corporate director with a broad base of experience working as a financial leader, catalyst, operator and steward in a number of public and private companies operating in a broad array of industries, with a deep background as a financial, consulting, and accounting educator providing professional development services to Big 4 Public Accounting Firms, universities, and professional institutes.
Specialties:Leadership, finance, accounting, mergers and acquisitions, auditing, instructional design, facilitation and instruction, authoring, decision analysis