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15 - 17 December 2025
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Certificate in Strategic Finance for Non-finance Senior Executives

Understand the financial component of business strategy: Align business and financial strategies to ensure the “bottom line” makes financial and strategic success.

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Understand the financial component of your organisation’s overall business strategy

Course Overview

“Strategic Finance” is often narrowly defined as relating to the strategic allocation of capital within an organisation, and the underlying cost of that capital.

The focus of this course is to address the fundamental question – “What is the financial dimension of our overall business strategy?” The course considers this question primarily from the perspective of the business executive rather than from a finance manager’s viewpoint

Benefits of Attending

  • Understand the financial component of your organisation’s overall business strategy
  • Learn how organisations proactively develop and execute their financial strategies – Don’t consider finance as a reactive “lagging” outcome
  • Understand the concept of “economic profit” and the supporting techniques of capital allocation and Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)

Learning Style

This interactive course, led by an experienced expert, combines theoretical knowledge with real-world examples to enhance your understanding of key financial concepts. Through case studies from the Course Director's career and hands-on exercises, you'll engage with topics like profitability, cost management, and cash flow. Focused on learning by doing, this approach ensures practical application, helping you adapt the concepts to real-life situations and enhance your professional impact Learn how organisations proactively develop and execute their financial strategies – Don’t consider finance as a reactive “lagging” outcome.

Run this course in-house

For over 29 years, Informa Connect Academy’s customised training solutions have helped organisations deliver tailored learning in different languages to suit every requirement.

Bespoke training designed for your organisation only, combining traditional classroom setting, blended and online learning models

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for business executives, managers, and supervisors, as well as finance professionals seeking to broaden their understanding of finance within the context of business strategy, rather than focusing on technical accounting. It is ideal for Business Managers, Strategy and Planning Managers, Finance Professionals, and those who wish to take a strategic and holistic view of how finance aligns with and supports overall organisational goals.

Course Requirements

You must meet two criteria to be eligible for an Informa Connect Academy Certificate of Completion:

  • Satisfactory attendance – You must attend all sessions of the course. If you miss more than two hours of the course you will not be eligible to receive the Certificate
  • Successful completion of the course assessment - There will be pre& post course assessment, case studies, ongoing in-class participation and activities

Learn More About This Training Course

Delivered by Ted

Ted is a trained and qualified Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) from Ernst &Young. He has also worked with JPMorgan on the investment management side of the business. Whilst at JPMorgan, he undertook a company sponsored MBA in the International Management of Financial Services, from which he graduated at the top of his class with merit.

Certified by NASBA

Informa Connect Academy is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit.

Run this course in-house

Informa Connect Academy’s customised training solutions have helped organisations deliver tailored learning in different languages to suit every requirement