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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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LONDON

128 City Road, EC1V 2NX London

PARIS

38 Rue Boulard, 75014, Paris

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