Finance for Business Leaders

In today's business world, the ability to develop, interpret, and communicate a financial forecast is no longer reserved for accountants or finance teams. Whether you’re a new, aspiring, or seasoned business leader, developing critical financial skills in research, budget and forecasting, financial reports analysis, and risk assessment is vital to the success of your team or organisation’s strategic goals. 

Learn how to analyse financial metrics, identify risks, and clearly communicate financially backed strategic decisions to stakeholders. Develop the capability to interpret reports and translate forecasts using the latest industry tools and templates.   

• Aspiring or recently appointed managers who are responsible for your team or department’s financial forecasts and budgets. You’re looking to expand your financial acumen and develop the ability to influence commercial decisions, develop commercial presentations, and manage budgets and financial strategies. 

• Professionals and existing managers looking to upskill your financial capabilities to advance your career and secure a more financially responsible role.  

• Critically analyse an organisation’s key goals and financial drivers to develop a forecast, including key revenue drivers, cost structures, and risks. 

• Operationalise a forecast by gathering key data, identifying KPIs, and determine a reporting strategy, in order to respond to actuals and influence real-time decisions 

• Present a brief to key stakeholders on the stages and business outcomes of a forecast for a business unit, including justifying the decisions made, the key assumptions, risks and KPIs.