Introduction

This Global Horizon Training Center Chief Financial Officer Programme may assist the CEO with forecasting, cost-benefit analysis, and obtaining funding for various initiatives. In the financial industry, a CFO is a highest-ranking position, and in other industries, it is usually the third-highest position in a company. A CFO can become the CEO, chief operating officer, or president of a company.

Broaden your perspective and prepare for the role of a strategic CFO by enhancing your skills to better align financial and corporate strategy. 

Training Program Objectives 

• Financial leadership in action that embraces personal and wider risks of the role

• Fostering a winning relationship with the CEO/Board

• Strategic engagement, alignment, goal congruence, delivering concrete outcomes

• Acquiring commercial insights, and perspectives that feed into decisions making

• Leading through change, business transformation, and performance optimization

• Communicating business insights, and decision choices more succinctly and intelligently

• Embracing the power of digital and associated risks

• Nurturing finance talent and leadership pipeline

Personal Benefit of The Chief Financial Officer Programme

• Develop your leadership, strategy, and communication capabilities to drive innovation and technological transformation throughout your organization.

• Define a long-term, strategic vision that balances financial and non-financial performance objectives with business strategy.

• Enhance your ability to predict, measure and monitor financial and non-financial performance.

• Strengthen your technical skills and financial expertise.

• Analyse the latest trends and external forces shaping your business, to elevate your credibility as a trusted internal advisor and key decision-maker.

• Build, lead, motivate and sustain high-performing teams to accelerate their impact.

• Enhance your strategic communication skills to become more influential, leading internal and external stakeholder groups with greater success.

Organizational Benefits of The Chief Financial Officer Programme

• Generate actionable, strategic insights that improve the quality of decision-making across your organization.

• Identify, evaluate, communicate and drive the implementation of strategic choices that lead to sustainable value creation and organizational growth.

• Lead change and transformation efforts that create lasting value for you and your organization.

• Transform culture across your organization to be risk-aware and financially aligned.

Target Audience for The Chief Financial Officer Programme

This Training program is designed for senior finance executives who are either new to a CFO role or preparing themselves for a CFO assignment or similar strategic financial leadership position.  

Attendees include:

• Senior-level executives with strategic and financial responsibilities

• Existing CFOs or those preparing to step into a CFO role

• Executives from a wide range of industries, ranging from large organizations to start-ups.

Course outlines of The Chief Financial Officer Programme

Day 1

FOUNDATIONAL

• Executive Leadership

• Executive Strategy

• Executive Decision Making

• Executive Oversight

• Executive Transparency

• Executive Accountability

• Executive Planning & Execution

• Executive Accounting, Financial& Budgeting

• Executive Project Management & Project Control

• Executive Problem Solving

Day 2

CORE (Leading – Managing – Controlling)

• Leading & Managing People

• Leading & Managing Change

• Leading & Managing Goals & Priorities

• Leading & Managing Communications

• Leading & Managing Culture & Cultural Dynamics

• Leading & Managing Negotiations

• Leading & Managing Organizational Politics

• Leading & Managing Innovation & Technology

• Leading & Managing Customers & Suppliers

• Leading & Managing Competitive Advantage

• Leading & Managing Risks & Uncertainty

• Leading & Managing Quality

• Leading & Managing Crisis & Conflicts

• Leading & Controlling Waste, Fraud, Abuse, Neglect & Negligence

• Leading Management Controls & Efficiency

• Leading & Managing Claims & Disputes

Day 3

FUNCTIONAL SPECIALIZATION/EXPERTISE

Corporate Finance

• Balance sheet optimization

• Capital planning and allocation

• Re-investment, M&A, debt servicing, dividends, share buybacks

• Tax planning, transfer pricing & thin capitalization

• Discussion on international tax planning (Starbucks/Google) and impact on reputation.

Day 4

Capitalizing on M&A Opportunities

• Defining acquisition criteria and planning acquisition process

• Financial and commercial due diligence

• Valuing and evaluating the target

• Deal negotiation Financing the deal

• Purchase and sale contract

• Taking charge and integrating the business

Day 5

APPLIED/PRACTICUM

• Develop ‘My CFO-C Strategy

• Develop Execution Scorecard

• Develop Execution Action Plan

• Develop Execution PlayBook

• Implement ‘My CFO-C Policy