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The Strategic Controller: Adding Value to Your Organization

Develop the skills to manage the 4 roles that every controller needs-number cruncher, custodian, analyst and business partner.

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The Key Issues

The business world today is volatile and unpredictable.It is more important than ever that companies understand where they are and where they’re going from a financial point of view. The strategic controller plays a very important role in the company. They need to be not only the number cruncher, but also an analyst and a business partner.

Managing financial statements

Protecting corporate assets

Ensuring compliance

Key Competences​

Defining budgetary metrics

Using analytical tools

Implementing controls

The Right Programme for You

You are an assistant controller, division/plant controller or corporate controller. You want to become more effective in your role. This programme focusses on the 4 quadrants of the controller’s job.
  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

Highlights

The 3-day programme is highly interactive with exercises & role plays to ensure you develop your key role as a controller.

Master the 4 quadrants of a successful controller.

Boost your career by becoming a key manager.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Define the scope and identify the four quadrants of the controller’s job in today’s business environment
  • Controller as number cruncher: Ensure the timeliness and accuracy of financial statements
  • Controller as custodian: Establish enterprise-wide controls to safeguard corporate assets and ensure compliance
  • Controller as analyst: Define budgetary metrics and parameters to evaluate the financial health of the company
  • Controller as business partner: Further the financial goals of the organization
  • Align and apply the functions of the four quadrants of the controller role to a case study
  • Share your knowledge and challenges with your peers and MCE's highly experienced faculty

Programme Details

The Strategic Controller: Adding Value to Your Organization is a 3 day hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme Focuses on the four key roles that every controller needs. That is number cruncher, custodian, analyst and business partner.

Five Programme Modules

  • Knowing how a controller fits into a business
  • Understanding the controller’s role in management
  • Recognizing goals a corporation must achieve to succeed
  • Exploring high-level controller functions, role quadrants, and organizational relationships
  • Meeting staffing needs and competency levels
  • Identifying basic areas of a controller’s responsibilities
  • Assembling a comprehensive chart of accounts
  • Identifying areas of input for financial statements
  • Recognizing the importance of developing internal controls over financial reporting
  • Utilizing analytical tools to verify and reconcile account balances
  • Using standardized entries for preparing timely financial reports
  • Developing an internal control checklist related to enterprise-wide risk management
  • Establishing effective controls safeguarding corporate assets
  • Identifying compliance requirements for timely submission
  • Recognizing strengths and weaknesses within the control environment
  • Checking financial statements for reasonableness
  • Delineating the informational needs of the users of external financial information
  • Identifying the content of and comparing types of budgets
  • Differentiating between levels of internal reporting needs
  • Identifying measurable units for products, product lines, departments, sectors, and regions
  • Understanding variance analyses for identified measurable units
  • Predicting future activity or budgets using cost-volume profit analysis
  • Aligning and evaluating an organization’s value proposition, goals, and objectives
  • Recognizing activities that add value to the organization
  • Identifying and evaluating nonfinancial areas for cost control measures
  • Communicating with and building alliances with business partners
  • Applying the functions of the four quadrants to a case study
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Bettina
Hausmann

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Bettina
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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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€3,795

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29 Sep – 01 Oct 2025
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