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The Oxford Advanced Finance Leaders Program

Introduction:

This Oxford advanced finance leaders course combines some of the most important areas of management, leadership, and financial management: Mastering People Management, Team Leadership Skills, and Financial Analysis, Planning, and Control.

The Oxford Advanced Finance Leaders program is designed to integrate advanced finance principles with effective leadership practices, creating a unique opportunity for participants to elevate their understanding of both fields.

By blending insights from the Oxford Advanced Finance Leaders program and cutting-edge leadership strategies, attendees will emerge as finance leaders poised to navigate the complexities of modern financial landscapes.

Oxford Finance and Future Finance Leaders:

Given the rapid evolution of financial markets and the increasing importance of finance in organizational success, fostering leadership that is well-versed in advanced financial concepts is imperative.

The Oxford Advanced Finance Leaders program aims to refine the skills of current and future finance leaders. It blends the prestige of an Oxford finance master curriculum with practical leadership training.

Upon completion, participants will receive an advanced finance certificate, symbolizing their readiness to take on vital roles in finance management and strategy.

Targeted Groups:

  • Managers, Supervisors, and Team Leaders.
  • Project Management Professionals.
  • Human Resources and Other Non-financial Areas.
  • Accountants.
  • Financial Analysts.
  • Auditors.
  • Financial Personnel and Senior Finance Professionals.
  • Professionals want to understand the financial aspects of their roles better.

Course Objectives:

At the end of this Oxford Advanced Finance Leaders course, the participants will be able to:

  • Understand their role as managers and leaders.
  • Establish clear objectives and standards of performance for the team.
  • Manage their workload using effective prioritization, delegation, and information management techniques.
  • Maximize their influencing skills.
  • Develop and leverage the capabilities of team members.
  • Participants are exposed to various leadership and management practice approaches, allowing them to select those most suitable for their situation and personal style.
  • Experimenting with key techniques before applying them in the workplace will help build confidence in moving beyond traditional assumptions about the 'right' way to manage.
  • Broaden their financial knowledge to enable them to develop and manage the financial aspects of their role more effectively and improve performance.
  • Acquire the ability, when involved in decisions about investment, operations, or financing, to choose the most appropriate tools from the wide variety of financial techniques available to provide a quantitative analysis.
  • Understand the financial tools and techniques that support an organization's planning and control of its departments, business units, and businesses.

Targeted Competencies:

At the end of this Oxford Advanced Finance Leaders training program, the participant's competencies will:

  • Leadership skills.
  • Building and Managing Teams.
  • Communication Skills.
  • Time Management.
  • Problem-Solving.
  • Decision Making.
  • Financial Analysis, Planning, and Control.
  • Financial Decision-Making.
  • Investment Analysis.
  • Business Performance Management.

Course Content:

Unit 1: Understanding Your Role:

  • Leader or manager?
  • Self-perception.
  • Explore beyond the job description: finding out what your organization requires of you.
  • Balance conflicting stakeholder demands.
  • Understand the nature of change.
  • A model for implementing change.

Unit 2: Personal Effectiveness, Time Management, and Delegation:

  • Understand yourself and your organizational environment.
  • Outcome orientation.
  • Set personal and team objectives.
  • Manage performance.
  • Find and use time effectively.
  • A model for effective delegation.

Unit 3: Communication, Influence, and Conflict Management:

  • Channels of communication.
  • Effective listening skills.
  • Emotions and rapport.
  • Explain persuasion and negotiation: the keys to personal influence.
  • Manage conflict assertively.

Unit 4: Team Building, People Management, and Motivation:

  • How do high-performing teams work?
  • Identify team roles.
  • Teams in practice: teambuilding exercise.
  • Motivate and reward.
  • Build and share a vision.
  • Different approaches to leadership.

Unit 5: Enhancing Team Performance through Coaching and Development:

  • How do people learn?
  • Coach for personal and team growth.
  • Feedback skills.
  • Development planning.
  • Next steps.

Unit 6: The Challenge of Financial Economic Decision-Making:

  • The practice of financial-economic analysis.
  • Learn about corporate value and shareholder value.
  • A dynamic perspective of business.
  • Benchmark your own strategic position/competitor analysis.
  • Know the agency problem and corporate governance.
  • What information and data to use?
  • The nature of financial statements.
  • Explore the context of financial analysis and decision-making.

Unit 7: Assessment of Business Performance:

  • Learn about ratio analysis and business performance.
  • Management's point of view.
  • Owners' point of view.
  • Lenders' point of view.
  • Understand ratios as a system - pyramids of ratios.
  • Integrate financial performance analysis - the Dupont system.
  • Economic value added (EVA).
  • Predict financial distress.

Unit 8: Projection of Financial Requirements:

  • Interrelationship of financial projections.
  • Operating budgets.
  • Standard costing and variance analysis.
  • Explore cash forecasts and cash budgets.
  • Sensitivity analysis.
  • Explain the dynamics and growth of the business system.
  • Operating leverage.
  • Financial growth plans.
  • Financial modeling.

Unit 9: Analysis of Investment Decisions:

  • Apply time-adjusted measures.
  • Know about Net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR).
  • Strategic perspective.
  • EVA and NPV.
  • Refinements of investment analysis.
  • Equivalent Annual Cost (EAC).
  • Modified Internal Rate of Return (MIRR).
  • Explore sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, simulation, and NPV break-even.
  • Deal with risk and changing circumstances.

Unit 10: Valuation and Business Performance:

  • Manage shareholder value.
  • Shareholder value creation in perspective.
  • Evolute of value-based methodologies.
  • Create value in restructuring and combinations.
  • Financial strategy in acquisitions.
  • Business valuation.
  • Business restructuring and reorganizations.
  • Learn about Management Buyouts (MBOs) and Management Buy-ins (MBIs).

Dubai (UAE)
01 - 12 Sep 2024
7000 Euro
Madrid (Spain)
30 Sep - 11 Oct 2024
8500 Euro
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
30 Sep - 11 Oct 2024
8500 Euro
Brussels (Belgium)
30 Sep - 11 Oct 2024
6750 Euro
London (UK)
07 - 18 Oct 2024
9300 Euro
Amman (Jordan)
13 - 24 Oct 2024
5200 Euro
Boston (USA)
14 - 25 Oct 2024
9500 Euro
Rome (Italy)
21 Oct - 01 Nov 2024
8500 Euro
Lisbon (Portugal)
11 - 22 Nov 2024
8500 Euro
Geneva (Switzerland)
18 - 29 Nov 2024
9500 Euro
Manama (Bahrain)
24 Nov - 05 Dec 2024
7000 Euro
Barcelona (Spain)
25 Nov - 06 Dec 2024
8500 Euro
Paris (France)
25 Nov - 06 Dec 2024
8500 Euro
Istanbul (Turkey)
08 - 19 Dec 2024
7500 Euro
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
15 - 26 Dec 2024
6500 Euro
Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt)
15 - 26 Dec 2024
6300 Euro
Cairo (Egypt)
15 - 26 Dec 2024
5400 Euro
Vienna (Austria)
16 - 27 Dec 2024
8500 Euro
Online
22 Dec 2024 - 02 Jan 2025
2700 Euro
London (UK)
30 Dec 2024 - 10 Jan 2025
9300 Euro
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
05 - 16 Jan 2025
6500 Euro
Online
12 - 23 Jan 2025
2700 Euro
Istanbul (Turkey)
12 - 23 Jan 2025
7500 Euro
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
20 - 31 Jan 2025
8500 Euro
Dubai (UAE)
26 Jan - 06 Feb 2025
7000 Euro
Casablanca (Morocco)
27 Jan - 07 Feb 2025
5400 Euro
Munich (Germany)
03 - 14 Mar 2025
8500 Euro
Manama (Bahrain)
09 - 20 Mar 2025
7000 Euro
Rome (Italy)
10 - 21 Mar 2025
8500 Euro
Barcelona (Spain)
07 - 20 Apr 2025
8500 Euro
Milan (Italy)
14 - 20 Apr 2025
8500 Euro
Vienna (Austria)
21 Apr - 20 May 2025
8500 Euro
Cairo (Egypt)
27 Apr - 20 May 2025
5400 Euro
Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt)
04 - 20 May 2025
6300 Euro
Amman (Jordan)
11 - 20 May 2025
5200 Euro
Dubai (UAE)
18 - 20 May 2025
7000 Euro
London (UK)
02 - 13 Jun 2025
9300 Euro
Online
08 - 19 Jun 2025
2700 Euro
Madrid (Spain)
16 - 27 Jun 2025
8500 Euro
Paris (France)
16 - 27 Jun 2025
8500 Euro

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