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Mandy Tomkins
CFO, Villa Maria Estate

“Being able to leverage my programme mentor’s knowledge and experience was incredibly beneficial. Another benefit I hadn’t expected was the relationships I built with other participants, creating an informal forum to discuss the issues and challenges we all face.”

Richard Smythe
Deputy CFO
Sky City Entertainment Group

“I was fortunate to be paired with a business mentor who is the group CIO of a global organisation. I met with him once a month and he guided me through my strategic initiative. I also enjoyed the networking opportunities with people from lots of different companies.”

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Strategic CFO Programme

This intensive, practically focused programme prepares mid-career finance professionals to step into a CFO role.

About the programme

The focus is on how the finance function can contribute to the business at a strategic level.

Participants engage in a range of activities to develop an enterprise leadership mindset. They extend their capability for strategic thinking and effective decision-making. Participants also develop skills for communicating and collaborating with other business leaders.

Leading Executive Education faculty, industry guest speakers and live case studies help participants to explore the finance function’s role in leading business performance and enabling growth.

Time commitment

This programme is delivered in a total of 11 days over six months. It includes five modules of two or three days held in May, June, August, September and October 2018.

Applications for 2018 are now open. Applications need to be received by Friday 30 March 2018. The programme starts Wednesday 16 May 2018.

Am I eligible?

Participants should:

Currently be in a senior finance or accounting role and report to the CFO or CEO (in larger organisations they may report to a direct report of the CFO)
Have a minimum five years’ experience in finance management roles
Have been identified with the potential to progress to CFO or equivalent role within the next five years

Programme content

Modules

Each module includes a mix of:

Interactive workshops with senior Executive Education faculty
Leading industry speakers
Live case studies and participative exercises
Peer group interaction
Readings and thought leadership
Application of learning to the participants’ businesses
Work on strategic initiatives for the sponsoring organisations

Individual development

Participants will develop a view of who they want to be as CFO and the capability they need to develop to complete their journey.
They will plan how they will develop themselves and their teams and create value for their organisations.
Participants will strengthen their networks through interaction with their programme peers, guest speakers and programme faculty.

Organisational benefit

Each participant will develop recommendations and a business case for an initiative that is of strategic value to their organisation.
Individual mentoring and support for this will be provided by a team of Executive Education faculty and seasoned finance leaders.

Advisory group

This programme is supported by senior faculty in conjunction with an advisory group of seasoned leaders who also feature as mentors and guest speakers.