Digital Impact for Finance Professionals

THE DIGITAL BUILDING BLOCKS

The digital building blocks are the essential concepts you will need to understand before diving into their applications to the finance function:

• Technologies: understand the main technologies driving digital transformation, and their implications. They include cloud computing, big data, data governance, artificial intelligence, internet of things, additive manufacturing, robotic process automation, blockchain, and cyber security.
• Methodologies: apply high-level frameworks and methodologies and discuss them with technical and non-technical stakeholders, such as innovation accounting, lean startup, agile and roadmapping.
• Change management: gain the skills to become a proactive contributor to change, from understanding change, to implementing it sustainably.
• Sustainability: link your digital priorities and ESG objectives, materialized by non-financial reporting obligations, supply chain transparency, and certifications.
• Ethics: learn to identify and prevent ethical issues in your deployment of innovative technologies.

DIGITAL IMPACT IN PRACTICE

Once you master the building blocks, it is now time to apply those to the main functions of the CFO office, namely:

• Accounting: get an exhaustive overview of how digital helps dealing with complexity and repetitiveness in the accounting function, and what’s next for the accounting department.
• Tax: link the evolution of the tax function in a global and digital world and the innovations influencing it.
• Treasury: understand the increasing complexity and speed at which treasury decisions are made, what’s at stake, and get a glimpse of the future of payments.
• Risk: understand how digital impacts the practice of risk management and the new types of digital risks.
• Business case: get the skills and framework to determine whether a project aligns with the organization's goals and priorities and is worth investing resources into.
• Sustainable finance: learn from practitioners’ experience how ESG is both a risk and an opportunity in financing, asset allocation, risk pricing, and governance.
• Leadership: gain essential leadership skills from three different perspectives:
  1. Organizational: learn to juggle between shareholders and stakeholders, grow from “shadow IT” to citizen-led innovation, and link culture with knowledge.
  2. Team: interact and challenge tech, compliance, and non-expert stakeholders; apply the process communication model in your team.
  3. Individual: leading authentically in digital times through systemic thinking, time management and mindfulness.