Certified Business Agility in Finance (ICP-FIN)
About This Course
This course is designed for finance professionals who want to move beyond traditional practices and adopt agile approaches to drive better business outcomes. Participants will apply agile principles to improve performance, adopt adaptive budgeting strategies such as incremental funding and rolling forecasts, and analyse forecasting and resource allocation to align with customer value. Through case-based learning and practical activities, learners will evaluate innovative finance practices for compliance and agility, propose team responsibility process to strengthen ownership and collaboration, and recommend budgeting methods that balance operational priorities with evolving customer needs.
What You'll Learn
1. Organise finance practices in alignment with operational priorities, ensuring compliance with organisational policies, processes and standards.
2. Manage responsibility and shared ownership process using agile team collaboration models to support individual and team outcomes.
3. Experiment with new business initiatives by aligning finance practices to evolving customer needs, preferences, and the business operating environment
4. Analyse performance against financial targets and business outcomes, using methods to evaluate business operating environments for quality and continuous improvement
5. Propose ways to implement agile or lean practices to reduce inefficiencies in finance operations by adopting agile methodology, values and principles.
6. Identify ways to improve information sharing across teams and overcome operational barriers by using change management practices.
Entry Requirements
o Experience: A minimum of three years of experience in a finance, accounting, business partnerning-related role
o Cultural and Linguistic Backgrounds: Diverse cultural backgrounds.
o Language Proficiency: Minimum of C6 in GCE N LEVEL English or WPLN L5
o Educational Background: GCE N Level and above.
o Technology Perspective: Most prefer hands on and in person classroom sessions based on survey. Most are comfortable with technology use as working professionals.