Become a high-performing finance professional Information

For ambitious finance professionals who want to accelerate their FP&A career.

How would I describe this course in one sentence:

This is the course I would create for myself if I was going to teach the younger me all the secrets to be a successful finance professional.

Why you need to take this course:

• You are sick of your role in accounting and want to move to FP&A
• You are a new FP&A analyst but you don’t have access to appropriate coaching to improve your performance
• You are stuck in a routine and you feel you have hit a roadblock
• You don’t find appropriate resource online that can help you with improving your work
• You want to increase your salary

How you can benefit from my experience:

I have 14 years of experience working as a financial auditor for a Big 4 firm and having different finance leadership roles in a multi-national company.

During my career, I have trained, coached and managed more than 300 people on auditing, controlling, accounting, Excel and Powerpoint.

I share practical content on finance with more than 400,000 finance professionals on LinkedIn and more than 5,000 subscribers to my newsletter.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

1. How to analyse variances
   • Analyse sales and margin variances, including product mix (PVM Method)
   • Understand cost variances
   • How to calculate project variances
2. How to perform quick analysis
   • Identify insights from raw data
   • Link financial figures with operational data
   • Learn how to make back-of-the-envelope calculations
   • Headcount related KPI and analysis
   • Understand how you can use variance, profitability and sensibility analysis to bring insights to your company
   • Sales Forecasting
3. How to make your reporting faster
   • Find ways to simplify your reporting
   • Automate your reporting
   • Build a process to accelerate your reporting
4. How to be a better business partner
   • Understand the needs of your business partner
   • Manage demand and deadlines
   • Translate business events into financials
   • How to make convincing finance presentations
   • Storytelling with figures and charts
5. How to make Excel and PowerPoint work for you
   • The main Excel functions I use which make me more efficient
   • Learn how to use the rights Charts in Excel
   • Transform your slides into a visually attractive and convincing business presentation with a specific Powerpoint function
   • Automate your presentations

Who is this course for?

• Any finance professional with the motivation to improve his/her soft and technical skills
• Finance professionals wanting to transition in a role with more analysis, forecasting and business partnering activities
• Students wanting to learn real world professional skills directly applicable to your next position in Finance

About Author

Living in 5 different countries across 3 different continents (France, USA, Luxembourg, Singapore and Germany) gave me the capacity to integrate myself quickly and understand different local and working cultures.

My 7 years’ experience as a consultant and auditor for a Big 4 company helped me develop a goal oriented mind-set as well as a high sense of commitment and responsibility.

Staying up to date with the recent trends and developing myself is a primary focus for me.

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