Higher Education Finance & Accounting Professionals Leadership Workshop
Overview
• Align expectations for finance professionals in Higher Education
• Transition to a valued finance business partner role
• Embrace big data's influence on academic decision-making
• Lead finance teams for optimal performance in Higher Education
Speakers
Kevin Riley
Kevin has more than 30 years of experience in financial and performance management and budgeting. This includes working with Treasury and Finance departments in the Commonwealth and across all Territory and State jurisdictions. Kevin is a Fellow with both Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand and CPA Australia. In 2022 Kevin was awarded the National Fellowship by the Institute of Public Administration Australia. He is also a Qualified Accountant with the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (UK).
Managing Director
Capital Training College
Agenda
Foundations of finance leadership in Higher Education: From ledger to leader
- Characteristics of a valued finance business partner in higher education
- Leadership concepts and practical skills tailored to academic leadership capability
- Tactical, strategic, and practical finance leadership in the academic environment
- Transitioning from subject matter expert to a valued finance business partner
Develop a strategic perspective as a Higher Ed finance leader
- Leveraging the finance value chain as a true academic business partner
- The role of finance and accounting in understanding and supporting educational strategy
- Explore the emerging power of big data and analytics
- Strategically focused financial and business process analysis tools
Skills for adaptive finance leaders
- Different leadership models and practical approaches in a finance context
- Understand the distinction between technical and adaptive challenges
- Identify your strengths and weaknesses
- Develop emotional competence, founded on the Emotional Intelligence (EQ) mode
Collaboration, influential communication and reporting
- Tailoring your communication to different audiences
- Having constructive interactions with others - when to ask vs. when to tell
- Building strong working relations with others, in both professional and academic spheres
- Identify the attributes of effective written and verbal reports
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Insightful commentary through analysis and evaluation
- What does good analysis and evaluation look like?
- How can you add value through analysis and evaluation?
People management in the context of finance practice
- Managing finance teams and growing talent in the academic setting
- Building trust-based relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Focus on individual and team performance to deliver results
- Empower finance teams to reach their highest potential
Stakeholder management and engagement
- Nurture strong internal and external relationships
- Manage competing agendas, tight timeframes, organisational changes, and confidentiality
- Technical methods to support strategic engagement, stakeholder mapping/analysis and boundary spanning
Insights into action: Next steps for academic finance leaders
- Reflecting and responding to key lessons in Higher Education finance
- Conducting force field analysis for planning next steps in academic finance
- Developing a personal roadmap to becoming a successful finance business partner
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Pricing
Rapid Action
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Venue
Join us online, from the comfort of your home or office.