Management Control Optimization within Your Organization
Transforming management control to make it efficient and indispensable
Duration : 5 days
In an increasingly uncertain and fluctuating economic context, performance management is essential for the survival of any business. This two-day training course will enable you to critically analyze your own management process and strengthen your role as a business partner in service of your organization's strategy and performance.
Learning Objectives
Define the essential elements of performance management within organizations
Facilitate the management cycle within your organization
Enhance the structure and governance of reporting
Position management control at the heart of strategic and prospective analyses
Training Program
Defining the Essential Elements of Performance Management within Organizations
Reflective workshop: What is the scope of management control? What criteria determine its variability across different organizations?
Define a shared management framework
Define the axes of management and analyze your organization (region, factory, product, legal entity...)
Define roles and responsibilities by analysis axis
Pertinent management indicators by analysis axis: definition, owner, frequency of dissemination, responsible for updates
Articulation between management income statement and statutory income statement
Practical case: Conduct a critical analysis of the presentation of an analytical income statement
Determining Operational and Financial Indicators
What type of indicator at what level of the organization?
Distribution and link between operational and financial indicators
Action plan: Define indicators for your own structure
Selection of IT systems aligned with management objectives
Structuring information systems (IS) between transactional and reporting
Reporting production: Excel and other tools
Launching and managing reporting IT projects
Sharing experiences on the choice of reporting IT systems
Promoting the Management Control Function
How to position the function vis-à-vis internal clients?
How to animate management control teams to improve their own performance?
Sharing experiences: What maturity level for performance management and management control within your organization?
Facilitating the Management Cycle within Your Organization
Formalize the management cycle in relation to roles and responsibilities of each
Budget and forecast: Interactions between operational, management controllers, and governance bodies of your organization
Monthly, quarterly reporting: What reporting format and what action plans?
Workshop: Conduct a critical analysis of the budgeting process
Articulate reports and dashboards
Practical case: Formalize interactions within your organization and define a theoretical action plan to strengthen them
Developing the Structure and Governance of Reporting
Transitioning from operational to financial indicators
Define the value chain of your organization
Define operational levers
Translate operational indicator variations into financial impacts
Link financial indicators to operational KPIs in reports
Choosing SMART indicators: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound
Practical case: Depending on the size of your organization, formalize the value chain (business unit, factory...), the main operational levers, and their impact on financial indicators
Establishing Communication Channels for Management Control
Determine recipients of indicators
Lead the production of reports
Manage the management cycle
Position oneself as a true partner
Define the best channels (face-to-face, email, online, apps, IS) to do so
Sharing experiences on one's own business partner positioning
Placing Management Control at the Heart of Strategic and Prospective Analyses
Organize the management control function
Operational management control
Central management control
Reporting factory…
Use digitalization (big data, apps, on-device reporting…) to meet expectations and reduce time spent on reporting production
Synthesis self-diagnosis: Define the main lines of the action plan allowing your organization to improve the role of its management control teams
Transfer
Your training journey continues in your participant space. Log in to access resources, self-assess your skills acquired during your training, and facilitate the implementation of your commitments in your professional context.
Key Points
Blend of technical insights and applications to operational examples
Who Should Attend This Training
Management controllers
Management control managers
Administrative and financial directors
Anyone wishing to critically evaluate their management control tools to optimize them
Prerequisities
Good mastery of basic methods and tools of management control: cost calculation, budgeting, analysis and reporting, use of operational dashboards
Teaching Methods
Structured training program focusing on skill transfer
Acquisition of operational skills through practice and experimentation
Collaborative learning during synchronous moments
Multi-stage learning journey to facilitate engagement, learning, and transfer
Training fostering participant engagement for better assimilation of teachings
Satisfaction and Evaluation
Competence evaluation will be conducted throughout the training by the participant themselves (self-assessment) and/or the trainer according to the training modalities.
Evaluation of the training course online in your participant space:
Immediately after the training to measure your satisfaction and perception of the evolution of your skills compared to the training objectives. With your agreement, your overall rating and comments will be published on our website through Verified Reviews, a NF Service Certified solution.
60 days after the training to validate the transfer of your acquired skills in the workplace
Attendance monitoring and issuance of an individual training certificate or completion certificate.

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