Description
How would I describe this course in one sentence:
This is the course I would create for myself if I were to teach the younger me how to analyze 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 resources 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
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
You’ll get access to:
– 100% Self-paced multi-part video series that walks you through actionable knowledge for your job in finance
– 34 on-demand videos which you can cherry pick and rewatch based on your priorities
– PDF of the course handout (131 pages)
– 17 Excel templates to help you leverage your learnings of this course
Why did I create this course, and why am I legitimate to make it?
I am Nicolas Boucher, a Finance Thought Leader with more than 1,5 million followers across social media.
I have 15 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.
Build structured financial models for decision-making.
Jeff Epstein
Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, ex-CFO of Oracle, Board Member of Twilio