Facilitation for Finance Teams

Facilitated sessions enable finance teams to work through issues and problems and achieve agreed outcomes. This often involves establishing the business needs, drivers for change and developing workable solutions. By providing clarity and future focus, finance teams are able to improve their performance and their impact on organisational performance.

Facilitation can be used to:

Work through technical accounting issues
Improve financial policies, processes and systems
Determine feasibility of new initiatives
Clarify issues, solve problems and agree workable solutions
Improve business buy-in to finance
Obtain input from the finance team
Prioritise resources and deliverables
Create "one version of the truth"

Examples of facilitated sessions include:

Establishing the role of the finance team and ways to focus the organisation on future business needs
Reviewing day to day financial systems and processes and developing strategies to build stronger relationships with the wider organisation
Developing an integrated set of financial and non-financial performance measures that work for the leadership team, business units and finance
Reviewing costing methods and identifying opportunities for improving transparency, accountability and value for money
Identifying benefits and practical approaches to outcome based decision making
Improving the day to day running of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
Reviewing budgeting and forecasting methods against latest practices

Feedback from finance team facilitations