TGIF: Transform Grow Innovate the Finance Function

The How To Guide For Any Finance Function To Become More Strategic and Influential

Created by Blair Cook, Last Updated 26-Dec-2019, Language:English

What Will I Get ?

This is a course in finance transformation. In fact, it’s more than a course, it’s a guided journey of self-evaluation, reflection and strategic planning to propel your finance organization forward. Not only are organizations under fire to kee

Description

This is a course in finance transformation. In fact, it’s more than a course, it’s a guided journey of self-evaluation, reflection and strategic planning to propel your finance organization forward. Not only are organizations under fire to keep up with internal and external forces that require adaptation and change, so to are the finance functions that support the organization.

The modern finance function has never had as great an opportunity as it has today to play a strategic advisory role inside any organization. Yet, most finance leaders and those working in the finance organization find themselves still buried in transactional processing. This course shares with you a path forward by first understanding where you as a finance leader or aspiring finance leader, and your finance organization stand today. From there, you will learn for yourself the end goal, whether its to be a partner in business or a trusted advisor internally and externally on behalf of management. Through the exercises included with this course, you will plot a course forward to transform finance.

Who this course is for:

Intended for manager, directors and executives working in the finance function

Course Content

Introduction

2 Lectures 00:02:45
- Resources You'll Need for This Course
  
  Preview
  
  00:02:45
- Course Resources
Personal Transformation

4 Lectures 00:27:00
- Know Thyself
  
  Preview
  
  00:14:00
- Your Strategy
  
  Preview
  
  00:03:24
- Personal SWOT
  
  00:05:10
- Interpreting a SWOT
  
  00:04:26
People Transformation

7 Lectures 01:00:50
- Maturity Model for Any Finance Organization
  
  00:12:22
- Maturity Assessment
  
  Preview
  
  00:03:47
- Functional SWOT
  
  00:04:45
- Structuring the Finance Function
  
  00:09:48
- People Transformation Ideas
  
  00:10:09
- Coaching and Mentoring
  
  00:06:11
- Team Transformation
  
  00:13:48
Process Transformation

3 Lectures 00:28:05
- Process Transformation
  
  00:04:01
- Business Process Transformation
  
  00:10:15
- Close Process Transformation
  
  00:13:49
System Transformation

6 Lectures 00:41:30
- The Problem with Excel
  
  00:08:05
- System Transformation
  
  00:06:15
- Changing Systems
  
  00:04:17
- Emerging Technology
  
  00:05:34
- Transforming Reporting
  
  00:09:59
- Transformative Dashboards
  
  00:07:20
Making Transformation Reality

2 Lectures 00:21:29
- Plot Your TGIF Plan
  
  00:08:12
- Change Management and Wrap Up
  
  00:13:17

Blair Cook

Thought Leaders in the Field of Executive Finance

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