Your accounting qualification is based on the past.
You learnt debits and credits but they didn’t teach you how to use finance software and technology in real life.
get the finance and ops skills you really need.
You learnt debits and credits but they didn’t teach you how to use finance software and technology in real life.
Our course is designed to give you all the skills you need to build and run a modern finance function.
It will teach you real-world skills that you will actually use everyday.
your way through progressively harder problems.
from large data sets across a variety of real-life sources.
of processes across the finance function and beyond.
We’ll teach you to be an effective FinOps expert: a team player, working closely with other departments in the business
Running a finance team in a business requires you to be a FinOps expert. Able to juggle many different areas such as accounting, finance, systems, technology, process design and operations.
Soft skills are just as important as the technical skills you will be learning. You will be able to practice your presentation, communication and persuasion skills - all paramount skills for any expert in business.
- FinOps expertise
- Presentation
- Communication
- Persuasion
- Collaboration
Given raw inputs, you will learn how to build a simple accounting system on a database to produce financial reports.
Most businesses rely on accounting systems to maintain records to generate financial reports like profit and loss and balance sheets due to the volume and complexity. You may be familiar with the basics of posting entries using an accounting system but do you really know what’s under the hood?
After the completion of the project, you will have a better appreciation of how double accounting entries work in an accounting system, learn how data flows in an accounting system and be introduced to relational databases.
- Data flows in accounting systems
- Relational Databases
4 weeks
You will learn how to review and tear down current processes in your day to day, and design much more efficient processes.
Running a finance team means you will be interacting with other teams in the company. Every interaction also means that there could be a bottleneck unless the process is properly designed and communicated.
You will be introduced to best in class processes around standard finance team processes such as expenses reimbursement, payments, month end reporting and many more.
- Process design
- Process analysis
- Data flows
2 weeks
In this module, you will be introduced to the principles of programming.
It’s not enough to only learn how to use VLOOKUPS, SUMIFS and pivot tables anymore. The problems you are going to have to solve are bigger than the tools a spreadsheet can provide.
You will be introduced to ‘no code’ tools to build an automatic deferred revenue schedule.
- Programming
- No-code tools
2 weeks
In this module, you will be introduced to the principles of programming and data analysis using SQL.
You will also be introduced to JavaScript to automate basic tasks in Google Sheets. You'll learn to solve problems like a programmer and produce simple code to analyse real-world data.
- SQL basics
- JavaScript basics
- Data analysis
2 weeks
You will identify real-world pain points and put together a project plan to roll out a new solution.
Change is the only constant in a finance team especially as the company scales. Systems and processes that used to work will no longer work as efficiently. We will teach you how to evaluate tools to automate financial processes, implement the right tools at the right time and the principles of project management.
You will learn to ask the right questions to identify pain points for expense management, payment collection and reporting and propose a solution that will convince the management team of the value in terms of time savings and error mitigation.
- System analysis
- Solution design
- Project management
2 weeks
This is the capstone project that ties all your hard work together. You'll get the opportunity to show off your new FinOps skills in a real-life example.
The aim of the School of FinOps is to teach you the practical skills on running a finance team and the best way to learn is by applying the skills you’ve learnt in the real world setting.
To that end, to graduate from the course, you will be expected to submit a 5-min recording to present in an area from your day to day.
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We have a 97% completion rate.
This is because our course is built around small, learning groups that help you build meaningful relationships.
The course actually teaches you what you need to know to build a next-gen start-up finance function. It's like nothing else I've seen out there.
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The great thing about the course is it fits so well around your day-to-day work. It's well planned to fit around your busy day-job whilst giving you lots of touch points with the tutors.
Thank you so much! Everything I learnt about process design and automation led to me landing my dream job.
I've been on loads of courses and this was one of the few that was actually helpful. I use what I've learnt everyday to keep scaling our finance function.
As a Chartered Accountant, I thought I knew what working in a finance team would be like. I had no idea. The course gave me the real-world skills I was sorely missing.
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