The CFO of the future - flexible planning and rolling forecasts

Event type: Mastercourse

Part of a series of workshops, spread out over the year, which will enable you to supplement your knowledge with all the latest tools, techniques and best practices and to drive positive growth and change inside your organisation.

Book the series or chose individual workshops - it could be the defining moment in your career.

Date Location Price  
22 November 2012 - 09:00 London Price: GBP 599.00
Members: £539.00 - CIMA members
Corporate discount scheme: £415.00
+ VAT on all prices

Who will benefit

These workshops are aimed at existing and aspiring CFOs (including finance directors/controllers/managers, strategic/business planners and anyone responsible for improving the finance and planning operations) who want to improve their knowledge and performance. They are applicable to both the private and public sector.

What you can gain

Based on many insights into how the best CFOs have improved their finance operations, this series provides the opportunity for you to take a career step-change in knowledge and performance. It will cover a wide range of topics including leadership, efficiency, strategy, profitability, planning and measurement.

Speaker Details

John Mckenzie

John McKenzie began his career in Ford Motor Company, initially as an industrial chemist, then in quality management and engineering. In 1986 John joined Unipart, initially as Operations Manager and latterly as Business Development Manager with responsibility for internal consulting and change management as well as leadership of the ABC/M team. In this role he became one of Europe’s leading practitioners and experts in the field of ABC.

In 1995 John moved to Armstrong Laing Plc, producers of advanced ABC/M software, as Director of Consulting. In 2000 he was appointed group-wide International Market Development Director.
In 2005, John joined SAS, as Head of Financial Intelligence, responsible for budgeting, financial planning, ABC/M, and performance management software.

To date he has spoken at over 300 conferences and seminars in the U.K., Europe, Middle East, South Africa, Australia and USA, on diverse topics such as Financial Planning, Strategic Management and Accounting, Performance Measurement, Advanced Budgeting, Activity Based Costing and Management and Process Re-engineering.

Outline

Flexible planning and rolling forecasts

Many thought leaders believe that the present levels of uncertainty and turbulence are the new ‘normal’. That’s one of the reasons why many leaders are saying that the annual planning and budgeting process no longer makes any sense (it also takes too long, costs too much and adds too little value). So how do you break free from short term targets and budgets and replace them with systems that enable the organisation to be more flexible? This workshop will teach you how to:

        • set goals based on relative performance and realign rewards
        • build a more dynamic strategic planning process (including scenario planning)
        • lead a quarterly business review meeting
        • design and implement rolling forecasts
        • rethink the roles of the executive, support services and front line (value centre) team
        • move towards a more devolved and adaptive (beyond budgeting) management model.
      Case examples are drawn from a wide range of organisations.
    The course starts with registration and coffee at 9.00 and ends at 5.00.

Morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea are provided.

6 CPD hours (where applicable)

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