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Financial Excellence: Create Value in Your Organization

Move from being a traditional financial manager to a trusted advisor with the knowledge and skills.

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The Key Issues

In many organizations, finance is seen as just a very secondary role and just providing the raw numbers. But financial managers and executives can and should play a crucial in the management team. To do this, senior managers need to develop their key skills in measuring value, using balanced scorecards and managing compliance and fiduciary duty.

Becoming an advisor

Measuring shareholder value

Using balanced scorecards

Key Competences​

Managing organic growth

Value driven models

Compliance & fiduciary duty

The Right Programme for You

You are a finance or business manager with 8+ year’s experience and a good understanding of business finance. This programme gives you the finance skills you need to move to the next level and create value for your organzation.

  • Business Professionals
Specialists, engineers, chemists, technical staff, logistics, commercial positions, project managers etc
  • New Managers
Managers of teams including team leaders with up to 3 years' experience in this role
  • Managers
Managers of teams and departments with more than 3 years' experience in this role
  • Senior Managers
Managers of managers, countries, divisions, regions companies with more than 10 years of senior management experience

Highlights

Select and use the right tools and techniques to measure value creation in your organization.

Learn how to move from being a traditional finance manager to a valuable business partner.

Become an active member of the management team and not just a secondary supporting role.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Explore the key strategic ways to create value for your customers
  • Become a trusted advisor for the senior management team in your company
  • Learn the key metrics to measure shareholder value
  • Use balance scorecards in your role
  • Explore organic versus external growth and what they mean for your role
  • Discover the key elements of compliance and fiduciary duty
  • Lead the finance team or colleagues in the change from accountancy to financial excellence
  • Review the 10 behaviours of trusted advisors
  • Learn how to appraise investments using discounted cash flow, NPV and IRR
  • Discover the principles and best practice of mergers and acquisitions
  • Share your knowledge and challenges with your peers and MCE's highly experienced faculty

Programme Details

Financial Excellence: Create Value in Your Organization is a 3 day hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme will be led by an experienced facilitator with former financial management experience in international companies. The programme focuses on moving your role from a secondary supporting role to being a key and active member of the management team.

Seven Programme Modules

1 | Main value creation contributors

  • Value creation definition
  • Major value creation contributors
  • Innovation
  • Intangibles
  • Value driven business system

2 | Strategic options to create value

  • Strategic options based on the customer value proposition
  • Organic growth
  • External growth
  • Operational excellence

3 | Traditional role of Finance

  • The theoretical balancing act
  • Compliance & Fiduciary duty
  • Business support

4 | From Finance Manager to Sparing Partner

  • Leading the team
  • The wider role
  • Accountancy versus Business versus time

5 | The Trusted Advisor

  • Definition
  • Characteristics of a Trusted Advisor
  • Becoming a Trusted Advisor: the ten behaviours
  • Becoming a source of proposal by having the clients’ (external & internal) best interest in mind

6 | Metrics to measure shareholder value

  • Internal growth
  • Investment appraisal (Discounted cash flow, NPV, IRR)
  • Economic value added
  • External growth
  • Principles of M & A
  • Company valuation methods

7 | Metrics to measure the stakeholder value: The balanced scorecard:

  • Definition
  • The balanced scorecard strategic map
  • The balanced scorecards process
  •  The business pyramid with measurable indicators
  • Critical success factors
  • KPIs
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Bettina
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€3,795
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27 Oct – 29 Oct 2025
Vienna
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03 Nov – 05 Nov 2025
Amsterdam
Radisson Blu Hotel Amsterdam City Center
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27 Oct – 29 Oct 2025
Vienna
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03 Nov – 05 Nov 2025
Amsterdam
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Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

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