The Business Partner controller: a skills enhancement program [P794].
  • Assertiveness & control of emotions - Assertiveness & control of emotions / stress management - Know your deepest motivations and obstacles - Understand and manage your emotions
  • Collaboration and relational management - Collaborative logic and relational management - Ability to decipher non-verbal language - Ability to convey meaning, to be a pedagogue - Ability to engage in dialogue and share an analysis - Ability to argue in adversarial debate - Ability to challenge, formulate convictions and sound the alarm
  • Communication, conviction - Communication & conviction in finance - Listening & discernment - Value-added analytical skills, ability to synthesize - Complex environments - Weak signals and meaning, in a context of infobesity - Ability to reconcile conflicting interests and manage dilemmas - Stepping back and crisis situations - Strategic thinking
  • Cost accounting and job costing - Learn about cost accounting, direct/indirect cost analysis and job costing, activity-based costing and activity-based management.
  • Change management - Change management in finance
  • Creation of value ROCE (ROIC), WACC - Creation of value: ROCE (ROIC) - WACC (WACC) - Return on capital employed - Rotation des actifs (assets turn) - Intensité capitalistique (capital intensity)
  • Cost and performance control - Know how to calculate variances, perform fixed/variable analysis and calculate breakeven points - Know and know how to use cost and performance control levers
  • Profitability and investment decisions - Building a business plan - Financial indicators of investment profitability (NPV, IRR, payback) - Risks and opportunities - Sensitivity - Reviewing and approving an investment file, model relevance, challenging assumptions
  • Dashboard (and BSC) - Governance and steering (Dashboard and BSC)

Acquire the fundamentals

Target audience

- Project managers
- Current and future management controllers
- Financial controllers

4 day

Business Partner Training

Prerequisites

No special prerequisites are required.

Objectives

- Master the fundamentals of the management controller's job

- Learn about the main tools in place in companies seeking excellence

- Adopt the best behaviors to influence and convince

Contents

> The mission of management control

- Fields of application of management control
- Controlling and the logic of continuous improvement processes
- The action plan
- Responsibilities and positioning of the management controller

> Tools

- Objectives, performance and management
- Financial planning: from medium-term plan to budget
- The dashboard
- Value at the heart of corporate objectives: value creation and free cash flow
- Cost accounting
- Investment project management

> Postures

- Communication: better self-knowledge for better adaptation
- Active listening at the heart of the internal consultant's posture
- Influence and persuasion: convincing, influencing, dealing with objections
- The Business Partner controller: projecting a positive image of management control, supporting change and driving continuous progress

> Summary

- Technical and communication skills

Why choose this course?

Management control is at the heart of the company's challenges. This training course is designed to help you make the most of it and improve management dialogue. It covers the three dimensions of the management controller's role: providing reliable data, ensuring compliance with management rules, and acting as a Business Partner.
This course combines the essential content of our three training courses "Management Control - Performance Management - Fundamentals"., "Industrial Controlling - In-depth Techniques", and and "Influencing in finance - Asserting yourself as a Business Partner".

Pedagogy and assessment methods

Before : documentary input

During the session: alternating theoretical developments, illustrations and case studies. A real effort is made to transpose the knowledge to the participants' own business situations.
Quizzes, documentary contributions, self-diagnosis questionnaires, role-playing and role-playing situations help to give meaning and a concrete dimension to the behavioral aspect.
These numerous practical exercises help to validate the acquisition of skills throughout the session.

Afterwards: documentation and e-learning module. The trainer is available to answer any training-related questions.

Price

2 900€ EXCL. TAX

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Business Partner Training

Business Partner Training

Business Partner Training

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