Transitioning from Accountant to Finance Leader Workshop

From ledger to leader: Finance leadership foundations

- Characteristics of a valued finance business partner

- Leadership concepts and practical skills for building leadership capability 

- Tactical, strategic and practical finance leadership

- The transition from subject matter expert to valued finance business partner

Develop a strategic direction and perspective as a finance leader

- Finance as a true business partner: Leverage the finance value chain

- Discuss the role of finance and accounting in understanding the strategic direction of your organisation

- Explore the emerging power of big data and analytics

- Strategically focused financial and business process analysis tools

Skills for adaptive finance leaders

- Different leadership models and practical approaches in a finance context

- Understand the distinction between technical and adaptive challenges

- Identify your strengths and weaknesses

- Develop emotional competence, founded on the Emotional Intelligence (EQ) model

Collaboration, influential communication and reporting

- Understand effective communication and how to tailor your approach to different audiences

- Having constructive interactions with others - when to ask vs. when to tell

- Build strong working relations with others, including people who ‘tick’ differently

 - Identify the attributes of effective written and verbal reports

Provide insightful commentary through well-developed analysis and evaluation

- What does good analysis and evaluation look like?

- How can you add value through analysis and evaluation?

People management in the context of finance practice 

- Manage finance teams, retain and grow talent through effective people management skills 

- Building trust-based relationships with internal and external stakeholders 

- Focus on individual and team performance to deliver results 

- Empower finance teams to reach their highest potential 

Stakeholder management and engagement

- Nurture strong internal and external relationships

- Manage competing agendas, tight timeframes, organisational changes, and confidentiality  

- Technical methods to support strategic engagement, stakeholder mapping/analysis and boundary spanning

Insights into action: Next steps for finance leaders

- Reflect and respond to key lessons for the program

- Conduct Force Field Analysis to start the planning of your next steps

- Develop your personal roadmap to being a successful finance business partner