Description

How would I describe this course in one sentence:

This is the course I would create for myself if I was going to teach the younger me how to analyse a P&L and give insights to my management and business partners.

Why you need to take this course:

– You are sick of your role in accounting and want to move to FP&A

– You are a new FP&A analyst but you don’t have access to appropriate coaching to improve your performance

– You are stuck in a routine and you feel you have hit a roadblock

– You don’t find appropriate resource online that can help you with improving your work

– You want to increase your salary

Who the course is for:

– Any finance professional with the motivation to improve his/her soft and technical skills

– Finance professionals wanting to transition in a role with more analysis, forecasting and business partnering activities

– Students wanting to learn real world professional skills directly applicable to your next position in Finance

🔑 How you can benefit from my experience:

I am Nicolas Boucher, a Finance Thought Leader with more than 1,5 million followers across social media.

I have 14 years of experience working as a financial auditor for a Big 4 firm and having different finance leadership roles in a multi-national company.

During my career, I have trained, coached and managed more than 5000 people on AI for Finance, auditing, controlling, accounting, Excel and Powerpoint.

📚 What you will learn:

– Analyse sales and margin variances, including product mix (PVM Method)
– Understand cost variances
– How to calculate project variances
– Identify insights from raw data
– Link financial figures with operational data
– Learn how to make back-of-the-envelope calculations
– Headcount related KPI and analysis
– Understand how you can use variance, profitability and sensibility analysis to bring insights to your company
– Horizontal and vertical analysis
– Sensitivity analysis
– Overhead analysis