Controllers Changing Role in Todays Environment

This webinar looks at the changing role of controllers in the current turbulent business world. It bends the arch away from accounting recording and reporting of the past and looks to the future and the creating of relationships, strategic partnerships and effective leadership.

The major focus will be on the qualities of an effective controller:

• Analysis of information
• Ability to communicate
• Company & industry knowledge
• Leadership skills
• Ability to provide cost effective services
• Technical knowledge
• Strategic Partnerships
• Customer Focus
• Control of Costs & Cash

• Controller's expanded role in turbulent times
• Leadership tools & techniques
• How to become a trusted partner and an un-trusting official at the same time
• How to obsessively focus on customers, cost and cash as key success factors
• How to manage and control the cash to cash cycle
• How to run the company with, and not by the numbers
• How to provide preferred financial information
• Key ratios and trends
• Use of rolling forecasts vs. traditional budgeting
• Essential elements of internal controls
   

• Diverse Roles of Corporate Controllers
• Characteristics of Controller vs. CFO vs Treasurer
• Core Roles & Responsibilities: Build Your Organization Plan & Promote It
• Core Competencies of Successful Controller: What brought you here won't keep you here
• Communications Tools
• Strategic Partnering vs Controlling
• Dashboard Reporting
• Dealing with Auditors
   

The turbulent ever changing technology driven world of business requires changing and evolving roles for controllers. The focus is currently more on the soft side of business, rather than accounting and reporting. It is more about people pleasing, than pencil pushing. Studies have shown that controllers who want to rise in the ranks to CFO must learn to put down their pencils and master the soft skills. Controllers must become Strategic Partners, Value Adding Decision Makers, Providers of Solutions and Managers of Change Interpretation of financial information, new trends like rolling forecasts, data security, diverse roles of controllers. It is more a matter of running the company with the numbers, rather than by the numbers.

• Controllers
• Assistant Controllers
• Accounting & Finance Managers/Supervisors
• Assistant Controllers
• Any Financial or Accounting Professional seeking to become Controllers
• Any Financial professional seeking to understand the changing role of Controllers in chaotic times
• Any Non-Financial professionals seeking to understand the changing role of Controllers in changing and chaotic times