The Finance Stage
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Hosted by
Soufyan Hamid
FP&A Leader for more than 16 years (PwC, Deloitte, Starwood and Proximus)
Course overview
Use presentations to influence your company's decisions and your finance career
When it's time for the Finance presentation, people start to look at their phone, respond to their e-mails and go to the bathroom.
Because despite the strategic importance of the insights developed by Finance, their presentations lack engagement and interest
- No clear message communicated
- No business empathy
- Use of jargon
- Unappealing visuals
- Unexisting storytelling
The consequence is simple: nothing is done with the information provided and Finance remains a back-office department
Don't make the same mistakes than other finance professionals: become a remarkable presenter and storyteller!
Use the slots allocated to Finance presentations to make data driven decisions a reality in your company and boost your career at the same time
At the end of this course, you will be able to prepare and deliver a convincing and appealing presentation, securing Finance a seat at the decisions making table
This course is for Finance Professionals
01
who want to influence decisions by delivering convincing presentations
02
who are blocked at the manager level and want to grow in more senior positions
03
who have a hard time crafting a memorable message that generates engagement and follow up actions
What you’ll get out of this course
Develop your analytical skills
You'll be able to separate the signal from the noise and understand what information matters thanks your helicopter view
BONUS:
- PVM (Price Volume Mix) template
Craft your story
From the data analysed, you'll create a message that people care about and can act upon.
Thanks to that, you'll deliver value as a department usually tagged as cost center
BONUS:
- 5 Steps Story Template
- 3 versions pyramid template
Build your visuals
To help you deliver a convincing presentations, slides and visuals are an important asset.
You'll learn to build appealing slides with PowerPoint and to use appropriate graphs in Excel
BONUS:
- Slides/Management Reporting templates
- Graph Excel Templates
Deliver your presentation
You'll learn how to best use your voice and body during the presentation and lower your nerves and public speaking stress
BONUS:
- Running Master
- Feedback Checklist
What people are saying
Olivia Zhang
Dietmar Vinckier
Charlotte Van De Velde
Meet your instructor
Soufyan Hamid
In my 16 years of career in audit (PwC), consulting (Deloitte) and FP&A (Saint-Gobain, Starwood, Proximus and many other Belgian companies), I followed all the usual steps to become an efficient finance professional
- mastering reporting, dashboarding and automation
- striking with business drivers integration
- killing it with financial modelisation
I thought this would bring me to the highest positions and that I would already be CFO after 10 years.
But after some frustrating promotion trials, I discovered that all of this was not enough to make an impact: if you want to have an influence on decision making process YOU MUST CONVINCE
I unlocked these skills by
- following an intense training on how experts must communicate their findings to non-experts;
- performing an internal TEDx talk;
- joining my local Toastmasters.
I continued climbing the ladder until working in direct relation with C-Suite members.
This is why I adapted all this experience to our field of expertise and decided to help Finance Professionals to convince their audience thanks to kickass presentations
Join an upcoming cohort
The Finance Stage
Cohort May 2023
$900 USD
Dates
May 1 - 11, 2023
Application Deadline
Apr 26, 2023
Course syllabus
01
What you're going to say
Introduction
Preparation of the message
· Types of presentations
· Data analysis and business acumen
· Getting the signal from the noise
· Crafting the message
· The 3 What Structure (Running Master)
· Challenge the message
02
How you're going to say it
Preparation of the presentation
· Know your audience
· Challenge the message
· Turn your message into a story
· Alternatives
Preparation of the visuals
· Structure and Design rules
· Slides main features (PowerPoint)
· Visualizations (Excel)
03
How you're going to behave
Preparation of yourself
· Rehearsal
· Public Speaking
· Body Language
· Digital Setup
Handling Difficult Questions
· You don't know the answer
· Argument or Disagreement
· Boomerang Technique
04
The final presentation
Time for Action
· Presentation of the case prepared during the first 3 modules and rehearsed upfront.
· The exercise will be assessed by the instructor and by the peers thanks to a feedback framework
Wrap-up and evaluation
Your investment is risk-free
If until 14 days after the course completion, you don’t find the course valuable, I'll happily refund your full payment
Course schedule
4 hours per week
Mondays & Thursdays
11:00am - 1:00pm EST
Monday May 1, 2023
Thursday May 4, 2023
Monday May 8, 2023
Thursday May 11, 2023
Weekly commitment
4 hours per week
Your commitment will be limited to the sessions and will not require homework
1 Final presentation
Up to you
During the last session, the use case prepared during the three first modules will be presented.
Everything should be ready but as we will see, rehearsal and fine tuning are key for a great presentation.
You want your whole team to follow this course?
Contact me on soufyan@soufbp.com
You want your whole team to follow this course?
Contact me on soufyan@soufbp.com
Learning is better with cohorts
Practice, practice, practice
This course builds on live workshops and hands-on exercises.
I prepare a dataset with usual financial and operational drivers with scenarios that will help during the whole course.
This is no ex-cathedra class only
Small groups for big interactions
I'll be available for questions the whole time and you’ll be interacting with other finance learners through breakout rooms and project teams
Grow your network of Finance Professionals
Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens if I can’t make a live session?
I work full-time, what is the expected time commitment?
What’s the refund policy?
Can I get reimbursed by my company?
What's the cancellation policy?
How will the classes work?
Are there technical requirements?
I have more questions, who do I contact?
Join an upcoming cohort
The Finance Stage
Cohort May 2023
$900 USD
Dates
May 1 - 11, 2023
Application Deadline
Apr 26, 2023