Scaling a Finance Function for High Performance
Overview
In today’s fast-paced business landscape, finance leaders must not only keep up—they must lead. Whether you’re a CFO, finance leader, or aspiring executive, this course equips you with the strategies, frameworks, and tools needed to scale your finance function for high performance. As companies grow, you’ll learn to balance operational efficiency, strategic impact, and innovation to build a world-class finance team. This course is designed to help you structure a finance function that drives business growth, enables strategic decisions, and ensures financial health. Through six critical modules, you’ll gain the knowledge to create a finance team that delivers long-term success and operational excellence.
Learning Objectives:
✔ Real-World CFO Insights – Learn from finance leaders who’ve successfully scaled their teams
✔ Strategic & Practical – Gain actionable frameworks you can apply immediately
✔ Future-Ready Finance – Stay ahead with cutting-edge technology and AI-driven finance strategies
✔ High-Performance Focus – Transform your finance function into a growth engine for your business
Lessons:
Lesson 1: Crafting a Visionary Team
Identify key financial competencies, align finance team vision with business goals, foster a high-performance culture, and assess finance’s role in decision-making.
Lesson 2: Navigating the Finance Function Life Cycle
Compare finance structures for startups, scaleups, and established businesses, identify scaling indicators, optimize financial operations, and improve workflows for efficiency.
Lesson 3: Architecting Finance Team Structures
Identify key roles in a high-performing finance team, differentiate centralized vs. localized models, design scalable financial processes, and evaluate regulatory compliance for global teams.
Lesson 4: Cultivating Talent and Expertise
Identify key financial skills for a future-ready team, recognize effective hiring practices, evaluate retention strategies, and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Lesson 5: Revolutionizing Technology & Data
Identify key components of transformative finance systems, recognize digitization methods, differentiate between AI and machine learning in finance, and analyze a case study on automation’s impact.
Lesson 6: Building FP&A for Strategic Impact
Identify steps for launching FP&A, recognize the timing for investing in FP&A specialists, evaluate best practices for scaling, and assess methods for aligning FP&A with executive strategy.
Additional Information
CPD Hours: 5
Field of Study: Finance
No prerequisite knowledge is required to be successful in this course.
No advance preparation is required.
Program Level: Basic
Delivery Method: QAS Self Study
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