Agile Finance

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If you cannot attend either of the session above, please click here to join our waitlist. Once enough demand has been built, you will be contacted with dates for the next session. Please note that submitting your information on the waitlist does not automatically reserve a space for you in the training. You will have to register/pay via a separate registration portal.

COST

The cost of this training is $1895.00 per attendee. The FedEx Institute of Technology can invoice attendees. These classes can be paid for by invoice billing to your cost center or by you personally. Please obtain manager approval to use the cost center in writing (email).

**Update: Deferred payment is no longer available at the University of Memphis if you are using tuition reimbursement. You will need to pay for the course prior to the course start date (a payment link will be emailed to you) or you will not be allowed into the class. The only invoice payments that are allowed is when the course will be paid for by your cost center.**

CANCELLATION POLICY

All trainings are NONREFUNDABLE within 14 days of the training’s scheduled start date. Attendees who wish to cancel within the 14-day nonrefundable period will need to email Rami Lotay (rslotay@memphis.edu) and give a detailed explanation as to why they cannot possibly attend, as they will still be liable for payment in full.

OVERVIEW

This workshop is highly targeted to specific client context. A pre-workshop survey will be distributed and collected prior to starting. We'll begin with a full session on day 1, then adjourn until the afternoon of day 2. This allows your facilitators time to evaluate the first day and curate content and workshops for the remainder. We reconvene in the afternoon of day 2, followed by another full day on day 3.

Agility in finance requires a shift of mindset, new tools, and different ways of relating to the rest of your organization. From occasional execution of critical functions to continuous execution of these functions, finance teams hold keys to enterprise agility. Funding models, analytics, and fast cycle times are critical – but leveraging them requires access to near real-time insights and automation across the entire finance lifecycle.

Moreover, for overall enterprise agility to be successful, practices within finance must align to the rest of the organization. Money and financial targets are at the heart of the business value that underpins the need for agility in the first place. If agile frameworks and functional practices elsewhere don't integrate with finance teams and vice versa, they will fail. The agile practices – and tools – needed to enable finance teams to align with the rest of the agile transformation are unique to finance. You won't find them discussed in books about software or workshops designed for product managers.

Led by senior innovators who have worked with both finance teams in Fortune organizations and major accounting firms on how to guide their clients, this workshop is a fast-paced experience that shows you how your own finance teams can become transformative enablers of agility throughout the organization.

Understand the challenges of conventional financial management in agile transformations
Recognize the business case for agile finance
Apply agile methodologies across finance teams
Create customer value and manage value streams
Establish visibility and feedback in workflows throughout departments
Communicate insights across the organization
Identify and introduce transformative automation concepts
Apply continuous execution of all financial functions

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Finance Directors and Managers
Risk Managers and Analysts
Corporate Development Leaders
Financial and Accounting Managers
Financial analysts
Budget analysts
Accountants
Procurement professionals
Controllers
Internal Auditors
Anyone responsible for budgeting or planning